From now on my favorite Horror Movie

Rating: 10/10 (22 September 2017)

First of all to all those who rate such a movie with 1 star. That is absolutely a mystery to me, how such a movie can be rated that bad. There are a lot of B and C movies out there that really deserve a rating like that, but in times where something like a IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes rating has serious economic impact for filmmakers, producers, actors, future film projects, etc., it is a careless act to rate in such a way.
Nobody has to like a movie, but everybody should rate with a common sense to keep portals like IMDb valuable.
To the movie itself: I won't give you the 100.000 rating like a semi-pro critic. I will give you, who maybe hasn't seen the movie already, a short view of someone who really likes Horror movies and is bored the last years about the again and again and again produced ghost stories that just stopped thrilling me.
IT is a movie I know from my childhood. It shocked me in the nineties and led to hating clowns until now. I was really pleased to hear, there will be a remake. But also I was afraid about the result, cause many remakes are just a bad copy of the original. Yesterday I saw the movie at the German Fantasy Filmfest in original English and man... I was deeply impressed afterwards!
The movie kept my pulse high from the 1st minute till the last one. The beginning scene with Georgie is just brilliant. The cast is absolutely fabulous. The technical set of the movie is perfect in my eyes. CG is so good, that the director had the chance to put the shocking moments not only in the night, where light is pale, but also in the daylight. And the horror was there also at light! That is really not often to be seen in movies. Most of the time, horror plays with darkness, light keeps the audience in safe. But not in this movie. That was one of the facts that made the movie win my heart.
Skargard as the clown was really a winning for this role. I never thought he would act worse than Tim Curry. In combination with technical chances you have many years after the original movie, it was just a lot of fun to watch. Very important: watch this movie in Dolby Atmos. The sound some people here describe as too loud, was in Atmos the perfect supporter of every horror scene. Not everybody loves jump scares, and the movie has a lot of jump scares, but for me it was the perfect way to realize this book as a movie and keep the horror at a high level. You can hardly realize the book with all detailed descriptions King made. It is leaned on the story and the creator did a great job in that.
For all people who love the book and read it thousand times: Just keep the book as a story and the movie as a leaned on picture. Like Lord of the rings, a director can never create your personal imagination for 100%. He has to deliver entertainment for everybody out there. I like red. You maybe like blue. It isn't that simple...