IT is more of an adventure film and less of a horror and strongly reminds us of recent Stranger Things.

Rating: 7/10 (6 October 2017)

IT (2017): While The Conjuring 2 is the most hyped horror film in 2016,IT has the credit as for 2017.Based on Stephen King's 1985 adventure horror novel which was made into a two part TV mini series back in 1990.That explains the hype around IT as all the 90's kids are waiting for Pennywise Clown to bring back their childhood memories of IT.But what about the newbies who never read the book or watched the TV Series?I belong to the mentioned category and watched IT with only vague idea about Pennywise Clown and interesting trailers which shows lot of scary promise.SO How is IT? Plot: When young children in the little town Derry, Maine goes missing a group of seven kids find out that the killer is not a man. The killer is the evil clown Pennywise who can shapeshift into the thing you are most afraid of. The kids, also known as the Losers Club, decide to fight and kill It. But how can you fight something who knows all your biggest fears? My Review: IT's opening scene is really one of the most nail biting scary scene in recent times.There is always a phrase "What's hiding in Sewer's?".The same phrase is given a brilliant visual where a kid named Georgie loses his paper boat which goes down the storm drain and he meets Pennywise there and the entire conversation raises the expectations on the movie.
But after that scene,the movie completely changes into adventure mood which strongly resembles Netflix's Stranger Things.The entire first half of the movie depends on the children's friendship bonds and the way everyone encounter Pennywise in the form of their worst fears.Even the scenes aren't scary as Muschietti relies too much on your garden-variety jump scares and now-standard special effects, things like ghoulish limbs twisting every which-way and innocent figures shape-shifting into malevolent ones. As always, the horrors you get a close look at are much less terrifying than those that remain unseen.
In latter half of the movie,the movie picks pace with continuous thrills in garage,and the spooky house.Pennywise is at its own but scary from during these scenes which promises hell ride once more but again the pace becomes repetitive with not so engaging climax.The interesting part is whenever a TV set is shown in the film,it features a kid program about adventure in sewers.
Skarsgård,is quite effective as Pennywise. It helps that he's kinda scary looking even without makeup. But when you put him in that puffy, Elizabethan-style costume and give him that bulbous forehead and glowing, off-centre eyes, his impish smile can really creep you out.The young cast's performances are impressive too.
So,IT is more of an adventure film and less of a horror and strongly reminds us of recent Stranger Things.
My Rating 6.5/10