The first scenes where humans hurt each other were the scariest.

Rating: 2/10 (29 September 2019)

I could never really lose myself in the IT Chapter Two monster (though I tried) because he seemed so contrived. His motives seemed to be exclusively cruelty, petty revenge, and sadism. His main power was to plant eidetic imagery in the minds of his victims, so most of the fear he created came from making the victims think they saw stuff that was not there and then intermingling that with real stuff that was in fact there.
Most of the surprise that I, as an audience member, ever felt came from the "Boo-jump-out-at-you" startling effects. But I was never really scared of IT.
The movie was too long and, ultimately, very boring.