![]() ![]() Stan is led away from his friends and comes face-to-face with his greatest fear. When the rest of the Losers make their way into the sewers, things get hectic in a hurry as Pennywise attempts to lure the children apart. Beverly doesn't go insane, but her eyes glaze over and she goes catatonic and floats up into the air, lifeless. "You will be," Pennywise warns as he unhinges his mouth and shows her the deadlights - his true home, which exists outside our universe, and which is said to make humans go insane upon sight - King's nod to Lovecraftian horror. Just one problem - Beverly just faced down her worst fear, her abusive father, and she's not scared anymore. Pennywise puts on a little dancing clown show for her, but when she moves to escape, he snatches her up and tries to scare her. But then Pennywise abducts Beverly, the heart of the Losers Club and the glue that holds them together, and in doing so, reunites them once more to face off against the evil lurking in the Derry sewers.īack in the sewers, Beverly wakes up and finds herself in Pennywise's cistern, surrounded by the bodies of floating dead children. Terrified by their near-death encounter with Pennywise on Niebolt Street, the Losers disband and go their separate ways for the rest of the summer despite protests from Bill and Beverly. That's where we pick up with our Losers in the final act of IT. That hunger for tasty, tasty, beautiful fear is pretty much the sole reason It returns to Derry, Maine every 27 years to torment and feed on the townsfolk before retreating into a slumber. This is why he prefers to feast on children - their fears are simple, pure, and powerful compared to the comlplex fears of adults. According to It, when it feasted on scared humans, "all the chemicals of fear flooded the body and salted the meat". In short, It is an ancient creature, older than our universe, who feasts on the flesh of humans because our fears are easy to manifest and they make us more delicious. What is It? The film doesn't give us a clear cut answer on the nature of the evil (seems they're saving that for the sequel), but it lays enough hints to satisfy book fans and casual moviegoers alike. Let's start with It itself, aka Pennywise the Dancing Clown. So let's take a look at the ending of IT, what it means for the Losers, and what it's teasing for the second half to come. Of course, New Line hasn't officially announced the sequel yet, but Gary Dauberman was just recruited to return for scriptwriting, and between Muschietti's candid interviews and the film's final title tag, which reads "IT: Chapter One", the sequel has got to be one of the most unofficially official movies ever. And to pull it off, they had to stick the landing with an ending that could not only satisfy the arc of the first film, but tease the sequel. Director Andy Muschietti and his creative team managed to take one of Stephen King's most beloved and challenging novels - his epic, sprawling opus IT - split it in half, and adapt it into a film that's not just terrifying, but an earnest, touching tale of coming-of-age friendship, all in a single feature-length film. Be aware there are spoilers for IT (2017), the 1990 miniseries, and Stephen King's novel. ![]()
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