add 'S.H.' and you have what this movie is

Rating: 3/10 (16 September 2017)

Where to begin. Every low-budget movie clichÃ© is in this movie. It is just your typical, annoying, teenager slasher movie that I hated growing up.
The best part (and scariest) was at the beginning when the kid gets his arm bitten off and dragged into the storm drain by Pennywise. (BTW no indication of who Pennywise is or where he comes from in the movie, only that he is a figment of the children's fears).
These teenagers make liberal use of 'f' word about as much as the Big Lebowski does.
Of course there is the typical every-child's-home-life is messed up clichÃ©', and there's the town bully clichÃ©', and the tomgirl clichÃ©',and all that sappy Hallmark-style acting. There's the obsessive-compulsive Jewish friend clichÃ©', the Magical Negro clichÃ©',there's no end to it. The studious fat kid clichÃ©'.
This movie is basically summed up like this: autonomous kids with no parental supervision wander around town in the style of Goonies, but only with less purpose and drive, and with some jilted dialogue to explain what they're doing. Supposedly, this clown only appears in town every 27 years (according to research the group does with newspaper archives and microfilm). Again, the movie ends with no better explanation than in the beginning. Oh, it likes the town's storm drains for some reason......
At the end, through a process I refer to as Digital Judaism, aka special effects, lol, they manage to kill this thing, and if you can figure out who put in the killing blows I will give you $500, because the camera work and/or screenplay is terrible.
The only thing I look forward to is more movies with that tomgirl, because she was very charming and cute and I want to see what she looks like all grown up.