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Rating: Null/10 (2 January 2018)

"IT". What can I say? Nothing really. There was,to me, nothing to say anything about. Perhaps I'm getting old and I've had to many jump scares in my time for them to have any effect any more.
I vaguely recall the TV mini series some years ago with Tim Curry as Pennywise The Clown. His portrayal was far more menacing than Bill Skarsgard's. Next problem for me was the children. There was really no character to them as there was in "Stand By Me". Most of the were cliche caricatures like the fat boy etc. It has often been said that Kings novels never transfer to the movies well. I feel this is because his stories play out in the theatre of the mind. This could be put down to the fact that this is how they are created in the mind of King when he writes them and how they are played out when they are read. Your own world is conjured up in your mind and you are disappointed when you see somebody else's interpretation of it. I guess this could apply to any written material transferred to the screen, but more so with King. Even the movie where he has had full control have been a disappointment to most.