What a let down!

Rating: 2/10 (2 January 2018)

First of all, a piece of advice to people having watched all serious horror films starting from the beginning of seventies, onward. Don't waste two hours of your remaining precious time.
It's graphic. It's like a museum of horror film cliches boosted to achieve maximum reflexive reactions, leaving you with nothing at the end, apart from the marketing message that sequels will follow. Worse, not only does it have, practically, no serious plot, being a shuffle of typical scenario patterns of teenage-targeting movies but also becomes pathetically naive and schematic when attempting to attach a symbolic meaning in the representation and endurance of evil.
I expect from a good horror film to lead my mind into unexplored trails of the psyche searching for and revealing the age-old animal that is always on alert due to its survival instinct and thus phobic of and proportionally reactive to any situation diverting from the normal. I expect from a good horror film to keep the feeling of my encounter with this animal imprinted in my senses long after the lights of the theater go out. In that sense, this film is a poor to completely naked production, possibly unfair to the original Steven King's underlying work, though I am not aware of it (but of others, I am and admire).
It is clear to me that the film is targeting the teenager spectators and for this reason it is really very sad to realize how low the standard has been set for advertising it as big time, especially when I inevitably have to compare it with counterparts I have watched during my teens such as The Thing, Carrie, Poltergeist, the Exorcist and so on, movies that live in ones mind for decades after exiting the theater.