It

Seven youths have to defeat a demonic creature named Pennywise which dresses in a clown suit and terrorizes a 1960′s town in Maine.

• Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
• Genre:Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
• Runtime:180 minutes

Cast

Harry Anderson : Richie Tozier
Dennis Christopher: Eddie Kaspbrak
Richard Masur : Stanley Uris
Annette O’Toole : Beverly Marsh
Tim Reid : Mike Hanlon

It aired as a two-part television movie on November 18, 1990 on ABC, and loosely follows the plot of the novel. The first half of the film, set in 1960 (in the novel it is 1958), introduces a group of social misfits, the “Losers Club”, as they meet and form a tight-knit group in the face of a cruel and intolerant world. Most individually come into contact with the child-killing monster, which they name “It”, haunting their hometown of Derry, Maine. It usually appears as the thing the child victim most fears before taking the form Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Tim Curry). The separate encounters are fortified later when they all see Pennywise reaching out from a photograph in an album owned by Michael Hanlon, one of the children.

The film opens with a young girl riding her bike singing. It is about to storm outside and her mother tells her to come on inside. The girl gets off her bike and bends over to pick up her doll. As she picks it up, she hears children laughing in the distance. Then she hears a clown giggle. As she turns around the voice whispers “Hi”. She sees a seemingly friendly clown; it is Pennywise luring her to his death trap. The mother of the girl comes outside to find her daughter murdered(the body is never shown).

Spurred on by Bill Denbrough’s desire for revenge on It for killing his younger brother, the Losers resolve to locate Its home in the sewers and destroy the threat to Derry once and for all. Henry Bowers, a disturbed bully, and two of his friends – Patrick Hockstetter (Gabe Khouth) and Belch Huggins (Drum Garret) – follow the group into the Barrens and into the sewers, in a bid to ambush and kill them as revenge for a rockfight, in which the Losers easily won, saving Mike Hanlon. Bill leads the others into a vertical pipe, leading to the sewers. Stan Uris is pulled away from the group by Henry and Belch, where Henry pulls a pocketknife out. Meanwhile, Patrick has been ordered to ambush the group from another side. It, in an unseen form seen only from first-person camera movement (other than a bright light, referred to as the deadlights) makes its way from under a grate and eats him alive. (This happens off screen; the last thing seen is Patrick screaming before the camera goes into his mouth.) Read more

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