A movie that delivers far fewer scares than real life.

Rating: 5/10 (2 October 2019)

When I was a young adult in the eighties, Stephen King knew just how to make the everyday world seem very scary. Today, the real world is just a whole lot scarier than King's "monsters." Sadly enough, this renders King's movie, It, Chapter Two more of a black comedy than believable horror.
How exactly does a clown with a silly laugh and pointy teeth compete against a kid who walks into an elementary school, and kills a couple of dozen kids? How do I get afraid of a father who abuses his daughter, when the cop on the beat in my neighborhood can kill an unarmed man running away, and escaped any consequences by saying "I feared for my life"?
The real world has simply become way more scary than the One-Time jump-scares of the seventies and eighties. The one King movie that still retains its horror is The Dead Zone. Today, a dangerous madman really does hold the
King's movie isn't particularly bad, it just comes across like a worn-out carnival fun house.