Stephen King’s mammoth horror novel It is a crazed beast of a book that clocks in at over 1,000 pages and involves the exploits of a jovial shapeshifting child-butchering clown.
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Though it was turned into a comparatively subdued television miniseries in 1990 (starring Tim Curry as Pennywise the Clown), it’s now getting the full Hollywood movie treatment, and time will tell how close the end result hews to its unusually brutal source material.
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Released today, the first trailer gives you the first coppery taste of the film, and it’s a dizzying mosaic of pancake makeup, paper boats, fangs, terrified kids, and good-old fashioned mordant terror.
Take a look and let us know what you think in the comments below:
ChrisK
Of coarse all of us IT readers will be watching. I remember the book had all kinds of dark sexual scenarios which had me so titillated as young teen back then. All the guys had big dicks in them too. Too bad that will be missing.
They also did a mini series years ago. Not really scary but was worth watching.
FnameLname
are you saying Stephen King described in detail the size of his characters junk? you sure you didn’t add that in there yourself? That just goes to show you how horny teenage boys get….they find sexual stimulation in a Stephen King Horror Novel.
ChrisK
In two places. 1. when the boy was is in the bathroom and two adult men take out their dicks and their described as really big. I believe baseball bats. 2. Near the end where the kids all have sex with the girl and the leading kid is too big for her.
BJ’s were also offered twice. The crazy friend of the kid bully and from the clown himself.
mhoffman953
Looks cool. Hopefully it’s not just a bunch of jump scares and more of suspense and creepiness like the original story
ChrisK
They always f*ck Kings stuff up. Who wasn’t disappointment when Pet Cemetery came out. That book scared the sh*t out of me and the movie was a joke.
mhoffman953
With the recent Hollywood remakes and reboots, they probably will screw it up. I’m unaware of any recent remake which turned out good but hopefully this is different
Rob91316
I love me some Stephen King, but “It” is not one of my faves from his body of work. I got the sense when reading it that he was trying to rip off the superior “Floating Dragon” by his friend, contemporary and sometimes collaborator, Peter Straub. The “It” mini-series was underwhelming, but I will give this new film version a shot. The problem with King’s novels is that no matter how good they are, they rarely translate well to screen, and on the occasions when they do, it seems to have more to do with the director’s cinematic vision than with the source material (for example, Brian DePalma’s “Carrie” and Kubrick’s “The Shining”).
ChrisK
Yeah, I shouldn’t of said they always f*ck it up. Look at your examples and others like the Green Mile, Doloris Cleaborn, Shawshank Redemption, and of coarse Misery. You’re right about who directs it though.