Losers, bullies and a killer clown.

Rating: 9/10 (10 October 2017)

Andres Muschietti directs, no doubt, the best adaptation of a novel by Stephen King...It. The thirty year old novel has 1100+ pages and the movie last a little over 2 hrs and a quarter, and there is very little wasted time on screen.
Imagine, the small town of Derry, Maine, where children begin to disappear. This has been going on in spurts for many decades. Missing youngsters without a trace. A group of young kids, self professed losers, become faced with their biggest fears. Local bullies like to torment the group; but terror starts as they square off with an evil clown named Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard), whose history of murder and grisly violence goes back for centuries. And Pennywise has the talent of shape shifting. And the clown has no regrets. Pennywise will terrorize each child with something they individually fear the most. Courage can be garnered in a group. Very good visuals and atmosphere.
Jaeden Lieberher, Sophia Lillis and Jeremy Ray Taylor lead a cast that includes Chosen Jacobs, Owen Teague, Jack Dylan Grazer, Finn Wolfhard, Wyatt Olef, Nicholas Hamilton, Jake Sim and Jackson Robert Scott.
A well paced soundtrack features: The Cult, The New Kids on the Block, Anthrax, Young MC, The Cure and XTC.