Here, Take IT

Rating: 6/10 (17 September 2017)

Going into this movie I was extremely terrified. I never did like IT. I had a horrific experience watching the 1990 original. I was about four years old. I was watching it around Halloween time. There was a brutal thunderstorm outside as the movie was playing. The movie was approaching a part where another child was about to get destroyed by IT, and I knew it was about to happen. But just before it happened, the thunderstorm caused us to lose power. I thought that it was IT coming after me. I flipped over my chair and ran screaming into a wall. Man did I hate IT.
One can imagine how scared I may be to see this one. But I did not find the movie to be all that scary. The opening scene was the scariest overall. It set for a scary roller coaster for the following two hours remaining in the movie. I thought I was screwed. But after that, the scare tactics were weak. The first half of the movie was setting up each child individually encountering IT. Scary? Somewhat. But not anything that made me jump. About halfway through the movie, the kids all came together and said that each of them had seen IT in some sort of way. The kids decide to stick together in what they called the "Loser Club". Now the movie is getting good, at least I thought it was. Now the movie should be absolutely terrifying. Once all the kids came together. The scare tactics in the movie became ridiculous. I truly think it became less and less scary.
Besides the scare tactics, the story had a great flow. There was a good sense of character build for each of the kids. There were hints at the adults knowing what was happening. This brings me to my theory. The bathroom scene with Beverly was crazy. Blood everywhere. But when her father came in the bathroom, he claimed that he could not see anything' however, the audience never got to see how the father saw the bathroom. The entire scene showed the bathroom was completely covered with blood. The father denied anything that just happened to his daughter and he walks away. I thought this was weird and I believe that all the people in the town know about IT. I believe they do not do anything about IT because IT does not go for adults. IT like the young prey: children and teens. This could be a way of the adults staying alive. If the adults do not mess with IT, then IT will not go out of his way to kill them and IT will instead go for his preferred younger prey. Just a theory.
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