Is IT Alf?

Rating: 8/10 (13 September 2019)

It Chapter Two: Derry, Maine is a nasty place even leaving aside IT, we're reminded of that by a vicious homophobic attack in which the victim is thrown in the river. IT then emerges, after 27 years, to claim the unfortunate as his own. The Losers return to Derry but have to overcome their amnesia. IT can be destroyed but it requires a Ritual, each must go through a trance/ordeal to recover artefacts for the Ritual to work. Horror ensues for each individual member.
Mike had stayed in Derry and went through ceremonies with an American Indian Tribe, using hallucinogens he had a vision of IT arriving on Earth from the stars. This is reinforced by the Giger like structures underground implying that IT is an alien entity, making this Scff-Horror rather than Fantasy-Horror. Great flashbacks, especially of Henry Bowers being literally vomited out of a pipe along with corpses. In present day Derry, Henry is sprung from a Psychiatric Prison Hospital by one of his (now) undead gang. Great to have a Zombie driver! Even great horror scenes can drag at times and it would have been a better film with 20 minutes cut. Good fun though. 7.5/10.