No clowns in this one...

Rating: 6/10 (2 December 2016)

Yes it's low budget, but it's good. Is it worth a 9 or 10 rating? Of course not, but the children populating IMDb got a little over excited and their parents should be calling them in for dinner.
To be celebrated is the efforts to create gloominess and despair. If you succeed with that you don't need to rely on special effects. Imagine what I am Legend could have been without the horrendously overdone CGI. I think the people behind this one should have done that one too.
Another thing to be celebrated is the score. I think it's an homage too Carpenter with the 80-ish synthesizers. Anything with more of that is welcomed.
Well then there is the acting, but never mind, they did mostly well, kind of.
The problem with the film is that it's to gentle and never becomes truly scary despite the well crafted efforts to create gloominess and despair in some scenes.
Regarding the IT a smart move was to make it look different from scene to scene, BUT and here is the biggest shortcoming of the movie, IT never comes close enough, well except for some hair pulling. They could have used the IT thing more efficiently AND of course not made IT susceptible for bullet wounds. That was ridiculous beyond ridiculous and destroyed the ending!!
All in all a solid 6, not 9 or 10 kids. Go watch some more movies before you vote.