Great movie - but not as scary as one could hope IT to be

Rating: 8/10 (7 September 2017)

The new adaptation of "IT" is good.
Do I think it's better than the mini series from 1990... well I do and it is better in many ways, but to be honest, I was more afraid of the older version of Pennywise.
Maybe it's just me who's now older and not as easy to scare as when I was a kid, but before I went to see the new adaptation in the cinema, I saw the 1990 mini series, and that version still gave me a creepy feeling.
I had really high hopes for the new version, and many of my expectations were meet, but I wasn't scared or had any real moments, where my heart beat faster or so.
For me, there were just something missing, like more violent scenes or scenes where kids were taken by Pennywise, instead of just hearing about missing kids.
The opening scene with Georgie... well... let me say, it was good, but not scary good. They could have shown Pennywise eat his arm or something, where they really went over the line and made Georgie suffer. Because it sounded like he was laughing when Pennywise took his arm and drag him into the sewers.
And that was just one of the things I think was wrong or missing in the movie. It just wasn't scary, creepy or anything as I had high hopes for IT to be.
It's not Bill Skarsgård's fault, cause he did a great job, but at no point in this movie, did I find Pennywise really scary.
Andy Muschietti have made a very good adaptation, but IT could have been much better, if they had just made it scary and more violent, by showing Pennywise eat a kid or two or three, instead of just telling about it.