'Time to sink!'

Rating: 7/10 (22 June 2020)

Gloriously entertaining and deliciously macabre, the much anticipated follow up to the incredible reboot a couple of years ago has plenty of fun scenes, although it could do with a tighter edit. 27 years after the terrifying events in Derry, Pennywise has returned and the group of friends that went their seperate ways must reunite to face and defeat him. It's a truly great feeling when you're watching one of these sequences in which Pennywise manifests into a creepy old lady moving peculiarly in the background or bizarre creations lurking out of fortune cookies; the feeling that a dedicated film crew spent time making these grotesque beauties for horror fans to revel in is deeply enjoyable! Bill Skarsgard is naturally fantastic in his now iconic role as Pennywise the Clown; the tense encounter between him and a young girl towards the beginning is a nerve shreddingly and greatly comic example. All the cast are great and the visuals are really extraordinary in Pennywise's altering of the groups perceptions. There's no doubt that, clocking it at almost three hours, it is absolutely overlong and there are flashback sections which do not particularly add to the narrative, making it less rewatchable. Nevertheless, it's a must for fans of the previous film and it knows how to do blockbuster horror spot on