This isn't a horror movie!!

Rating: 6/10 (8 December 2017)

Good special effects and good use of soundtracks: especially in the first sequence which, alone, is worth the price of the ticket.
HOWEVER! The editing is something terrible, mistakes over mistakes. Plot holes every twenty minutes. Why is Mike introduced after 5 minutes and then disappears from the screenplay for 1 hour or more? Plus, all the scary scenes generate from the same situations over and over again which makes them so predictable and irritable at the same time. Finally, I don't think this can be defined as a horror movie: there is no horror atmosphere at all. Muschietti's film is only made out of jump scares (predictable as well) and there are continuous mood swings that do not contribute to the (attempt of) creation of the terrifying atmosphere we are looking for. You can't make a horror movie only out of jump scares, it just doesn't work like that.