The Winners Club.

Rating: 10/10 (15 October 2018)

With a friend being a fan of 80's themed-Horrors,I started looking for a film I could watch with her in the run-up to Halloween. Somehow missing the title when on at cinema,I was pleased to see a local DVD shop have the title, which led to me finding out what IT is.
View on the film:
Embodying The Losers Club fears,Bill Skarsgård gives a superb, frightening performance as Pennywise, which clowns around with spider-like stop,start movements, and Skarsgård keeping a murderous wide-grin plastered on Pennywise. The only ones who know the evil in Derry, each of the ensemble " Losers Club" give outstanding performances, where the weaknesses they each have are opened up to build a bond with each fellow member, as the ensemble capture the feeling of friendships taking place in a summer long ago.
Taking on the first half of Stephen King's epic, the screenplay by True Detective season 1 director Cary Joji Fukunaga/ Chase Palmer & Gary Dauberman do incredibly well at compressing King's tale,whilst retaining its scary soul. Holding back from the more strange elements (no turtle!) the writers spend the first hour on the friendships of the Losers Club, with them each standing by each other in touching scenes,as Bill Denbrough holds onto hope. Handing them to Pennywise in nightmare set-pieces, the writers have the horror shocks run on the deeply personal fears of the gang,which is captured by the grieving of Bill. Working with Kids again after Mama (2013) director Andy Muschietti and Chan-wook Park's regular cinematographer Chung-hoon Chung stylishly keep the camera at the height of the kids, that gives the scary appearances of IT a towering look, and make the change of setting to the late 80's feel like a nature fit of candy coloured posters and songs glittering in the background,as The Losers Club find out what IT is.