Too much hype, not a horror

Rating: 5/10 (28 October 2017)

The main thing that bothers me about this movie, which is not even that bad if only they could sell it for what it is, is the label of horror film. It is a teenage-pop, mainstream movie targeting a completely different audience than the book. The marketing machine was amazing (three years of viral campaigns, clowns attacks, balloons popping out of sewers etc) so well done WB, however, it was all fishy as it all comes down to a crossover between Stranger Things, The goonies and The Sandlot, just with a clown instead of the giant dog of James Earl Jones. Creating this mickey-mouse 80's atmosphere just by placing a couple of posters in a bedroom and the name of some 80's movies in the local Derry theater was also irritating, as all these kids chosen for the roles all look like just what they are, millennials who have no clue about the 80's as whilst watching I was kinda trying to spot the outline of their iphones from their shorts. I expect a completely different approach for the second chapter, and the minimum WB can do to pay some of the money back to the way too generous crowd is to put a couple of serious names for the casting.