It jumps with might

Rating: 5/10 (22 September 2017)

I've seen 1408, The Shining, The Mist. They all had some things in common that define King movies:unnerving tension, paranoia, and an awesome spooky environment that builds up tension. "It" lacks all of them. Just a dumb jump-scare movie, it offers neither a solid story, nor any logic. Apparently, a ghost can appear anywhere, any time and does whatever he likes. He lives in the sewers, but that doesn't stop him from appearing in a slaughter house or out of a TV, just because it makes a good jump scare. He apparently feeds on people's fear, but that doesn't mean he can't bite your hand off if he is really hungry. All the kids are bullied, by older kids, by their parents, every-one of them has a bad-ass parent! The effects are cheesy, jump scares and blood are everywhere. "It" tried to copy its settings from Stranger Things, scares from all other more successful jump-scare movies which at least build some tension, and mashes them all to create a good for nothing story.