Why IT is one of the most genre defining Horror movies of our generation.

Rating: 10/10 (13 September 2017)

Before I start this review I do want to state that I've watched the original Mini TV series with Tim Curry as Pennywise and I thought that it was amazing (apart from the last half an hour).
This gave Andy Muschetti's IT in my eyes and many other people's eyes big boots to fill and personally I think he nailed it. This is because of several different horror aspects and comedy aspects that he used in just the right way to entice the audience into wanting more and allowing the audience to really connect with the Losers Club as people felt when they watched the original version. From the opening scene of the movie you can already feel that it is a hit as soon as you see the first interaction of Pennywise and Georgie. This scene for me set the tone of the movie as they took a classic scene from the original and somehow improved on it and made me as a viewer genuinely terrified of the fear hungry entity.
This didn't just happen once though, time and time again throughout the film they took scenes from the original and combined them with the new way of making horror movies without losing that old horror movie feeling where you would actually get scared due to tension that's built up through amazing acting from the lead (Bill Skarsgard) and the music that they used throughout the entire film. Combine this with amazing visuals, horror inducing visions of the losers clubs worst nightmares and the amazing acting from the younger actors made for a timeless horror classic which I think will hold up for many years to come.
A lot of people have said this movie shouldn't be in the horror genre due to many reasons such as clowns not being scary, the comedy and the goofiness of Pennywise. To me I believe the comedy gives it a heightened aspect of fear and makes it stand out from some of the horror classics from the past few years such as the Conjuring Series because they are just plain horror films that follow the same basic story line, IT is something unique and special and in this adaption they nailed it.