Psychological horror and a masterpiece at that!

Rating: 9/10 (4 July 2020)

If you are looking for scary jumps that any classic horror film can offer you, this is NOT your movie.
It's a pure *psychological* horror. By that I mean it amazingly depicts how our childhood experiences affect our life choices later on as we enter into adulthood. It focuses on the theme that we let our fears stop us from doing well in life.
The more we hold on to our fears, the stronger it gets along with added troubles. And it's all in our head. Some of us know how to conquer our fears, while the others who aren't able to cope up lose their paths and commit serious mistakes or take extremely wrong choices in life.
Going into the details(spoiler alert)
Why does IT prey on small children ? Not all children! but the ones who have had some troubled experiences. Like the girl who has a face mark and says that her friends make fun of her, a boy who is gay and gets bullied by other children, a boy who stammers and is made fun off by others, a girl whose father is extremely abusive, a boy who is made fun of for his big size, a boy who was bullied about his parents for his skin color... and so on.
The story shows That a group of small children were able to fight IT in their childhood but somehow it appears again after 27 years ! Why 27 years ?
Now this is just my opinion or what I gained from the movie, that we usually make big decisions about life when we are in our late 20s. It's usually during that period of time when we make big choices about career, marriage, and so on. It's during this time that we develop a personality which is hugely dependent on our childhood and other life altering experiences.
The girl who was abused by her father in her childhood is shown married to a guy who abuses her(a choice she made in her adulthood). The guy who was bullied as a child for being fat worked out and shaped his body, excelled well in his career, the guy bullied for being gay isn't married and doesn't have a life partner yet.. and so on. What you make out of life is dependent on how well you have let go off the childhood traumas.some of us just repress our memories, which is exactly what they all had done when they left Dery to go on to live in our cities.
Now Once again they all have to go back to *Dery* in order to face their fears and stop IT's terror. They feel the need to stop bad things happening to other children.
They relive their childhood memories and face IT again after 27 years. This is the main theme of the movie.
The movie leaves a mark and gives the audience something to think about.
Especially the ending! Just before when IT is about to die (or go away) He takes the form of all the different bullies and in the end turns into a scared and small version of itself. The characters weren't able to kill him with a sword/knife or some kind of a spell(which happens in most of the horror films). Instead they killed him by conquering their fear. They say "you are just a clown, you are so small, a bully, you mean nothing, we aren't scared of you". This is how they conquer their fears. Thats when IT says that you all have become adults, you all have grown up and dies.
All in all, what a wonderful way to spread a strong message across the audience.
This movie is Scary, funny, psychological and contains a meaningful message.
It's a masterpiece. Just my opinion.