Stephen King's It

[HorrorFan]

This movie is soooooooooooooo damn awsome!!!
The first time i watched it i was like 8 or 9 and wasn't able to sleep well for quite some time (i also hated clowns...still hate them)
Anyways, there's something about this Pennywise...his soooooooooooo macabre and scary!!!
Though this movie is pretty long (192 min) you won't feel tired or anything like that (that's what happened to me).
And the characters are all well played (not only the grown ups but the children too)
Only one of them got on my nerves, Eddie!!!(played by the adult)...
The book's even better!!!

[Herbert_West]

I agree the book is much better but this is an awesome movie and I really don't hear to much talk about it for some reason??

[ICP RULZ]

Never read the book myself,but I have heard many good things about it. Also,I loved the movie and when Pennywise says "They float,they all float down here" and he smiles with those wicked teeth. Brrrr,that scared me bad as a child. Although most of the adult actors pissed me off,except for the black dude. He was cool.

Peace,
Matt

[Jason Voorhees]

Yeah, it's pretty good. But the book is much better.

Tim Curry rocked as Pennywise.

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by Jason Voorhees
Tim Curry rocked as Pennywise.



Damn Right!

[Giselle]

The movie scared the holy hell out of me as a child but when you go back and watch it as an adult the cheese factor overrides the horror.........Dammit Bev, is it you or the Clown???

[countchocula]

I don't care for the sappy, contrived second half, but the first half is damn near perfect. Curry is creepy, the kids are sympathetic, and the pace is swift. As long as Curry returns, I wouldn't mind seeing a remake.

[The Claw]

Tim Curry as Pennywise is the only good thing about this movie. Oh and John Ritter. Just something about kids irk me to no end. Bah, I'm just bitter. I guess i've seen worse. I didnt watch the 2nd half though.

[Jewbo]

the first half is amazing then it drops of at the end. a real shame. if it had a cool ending it wud be one of my fave films ever.

[bowieee]

This is the best growing up type movie of its kind. Even beats out Stand by me in my book. The characters are all extremly interesting and the story is chilling as well as got the ability to make me feel all fuzzy inside. I was freaked out of bathroom sinks for about a month after seeing this one as a child.

[HorrorFan]

Originally posted by bowieee
This is the best growing up type movie of its kind. Even beats out Stand by me in my book. The characters are all extremly interesting and the story is chilling as well as got the ability to make me feel all fuzzy inside. I was freaked out of bathroom sinks for about a month after seeing this one as a child.

The same for me!!!

[ScaryFreak1827]

My favorite horror movie of all time! The performances were good and there are many creepy moments (especially if your afraid of clowns.) Also loved the book too.

[robk]

As is often the case, the book was far superior to the film.
However, Tim Curry was brilliant as Pennywise. I wish they gave him an Emmy for that(although he did get the Emmy that same season for voicing Capt. Hook on Peter Pan & the Pirates).

[Patrick_Bateman]

Great movie with a disapointing ending.

[Masterbrain]

I love that movie! It still scares the shit out of me!

[masknslasher86]

"Hey Georgey want a balloon...Everything floats down here."
That haunted my childhood. One of my favorites.

[the p&j experiance]

I just watched IT for the first time in 5 years, because when I was 10, this movie traumatized me. I couldn't sleep for a long, long, long, long time. So last night I popped this mother into my VCR and watched it, here are my thoughts.

IT is a good movie when you really think about it and now I really want to read the book. Sure the second half is far from perfect, but it is still scary (until the end). But here's my review for the first part of this baby. I was sitting on my couch and right when that fucked up theme song for this thing came on, I was scared. Just that scary little tune had me frightened. When Pennywise made his first appearance I nearly shit myself, I forgot how scary that goddamn clown was. Then the little girl bit the dust and from what I'm told, she REALLY bit the dust.

SPOILERS!!!!!
Someone told me that the little girl is dismembered and hung from the clothes line and that is what her mom saw.
END SPOILERS!!!!!

Seeings how I'm kinda stupid and most of the time intoxicated, I can't keep much in order, so I'm gonna review things in a jumbled fashion. Now just like in most Stephen King stories, some of the dialogue is corny and rather stupid because calling your little brother a "cootie" is kinda, gay, I don't care when it's set, it is still, gay. But whenever Pennywise is on screen, you're either gonna be scared shitless, or you're gonna be cracking up because he's funny too. But the first part with the kids is very good, not only is it a scary story, but it's also about some kids growing up in a suck ass town, being raised by suck ass parents, being bullied by some punk asses (by the way, I could break those sons-of-bitches in half), and of course being terrorized by a kick ass clown. Sounds like my life right now. Of course while watching this movie I had to make numerous Jewish jokes towards Stan because it was sooooo fucking easy. (For example, on the part when they finish the damn and he says something about they could do some more or some shit, I said to my TV "That's just the greed talking", I know I'm a racist pig. Or the part when Stan says "it's not possible" I said, "Yeah, that would never work as a movie.") So at one end of the movie you get this nice little dramatic story, on the other end you get a story about a killer clown who isn't from outer space. There isn't much to say about the first half except for the fact that it is terrifying and that fact that it is very dramatic. The only bad thing about the first half is the ending part in the sewer, this never sat right with me, and I don't know why.

Now, the second half, first I'm just gonna say that the kids are better actors then the goddamn adults. I felt sorry for Stan when he was a kid, he was a scared little Jewish kid who liked to wear his boyscout uniform, but as an adult I saw him as a pussy, you'll find out why if you haven't watched the movie yet and are planning to. But some parts of it are good, I liked the parts with all the adults talking about things outside of Pennywise and IT. And the part in the restraunt fucked my shit all up, the part in the library with the refridgerator, that kinda freaked my ass out. But I laughed my ass off at Pennywise in the moon, it was just kinda, gay. Henry Bowser and Pennywise are what made the second half watchable though, I loved Henry Bowser, what's cooler then a babbling psycho who is like 50 years old. Exactly, nothing is. So sure the second half got me scared a few times, but those times were forgotten when IT came out in his true form, what the fuck? The book describes it as a crab-like monster from what I'm told and we get this piece of shit spider, I would have liked it better if it wouldn't have shown the true form, it would have let our imagination run wild because the only person that can make a giant crab creature make sense and make is logical is Stephen King because it's his fucking story. So I'm sure it works well in the book, but in the movie it was way to expensive for the time. Maybe someday we'll get another IT movie to satisfy our urges, but we'd have to keep Tim Curry as Pennywise or else the movie would suck. I hope this review has helped, probably not because I admit that I like to babble on and on and I'm not very smart. But I give this movie
8/10

[Hidden Fear]

I was reading somewhere that the clown was actually part of a bigger scheme in Derry and that spider thing was a physical part of IT. From my understanding that thing is still in the sewers...... Can someone clarify this?

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by Hidden Fear
I was reading somewhere that the clown was actually part of a bigger scheme in Derry and that spider thing was a physical part of IT. From my understanding that thing is still in the sewers...... Can someone clarify this?




I thought they were one and the same...

[bowieee]

Originally posted by KillerKlown75
I thought they were one and the same...

Same here. The spider is the actual flesh part of the IT and the clown was a mental projection that became more real, the more scared and filled with belief the children became.

[Michael_myers]

this movie along with Sound of Music and ferris Bueller's Day OFf will always represent golden childhood for me. I wished I was there with those kids. After all trace of children left the screen. I nodded off. I haven't been that bored since Doctor Zhivago.

[angelinwhite]

Whether or not you like to read, you MUST READ THE BOOK!

It pissed me off to no end that it wound up as a made-for-tv movie. If it was ever made for the big screen, without all the censor concerns, and was directed by a great director, it could easily be the most terrifying film of all time.

I'm sorry, buth the TV movie sucked raw sewage! I had read the book and I knew for a fact that television would leave out EVERYTHING that made King's magnum opus so powerful. Only Pet Sematery has produced abject terror like IT.

If you think the TV movie was good, wait till you get entrenched in the book. King goes into territory in this novel that most other authors dare not tread. Some of the murders and atrocities committed by Pennywise will traumatize you. You'll laugh at the TV movie after reading this monument to horror.

One more note. Once you read the novel, you will fully understand what Pennywise is. He is indeed a manifestation of the "IT" in it's most common form. But the true horror of the novel is that IT feeds off human's fears and whatever a child fears, it can become, AND DOES!

Some of the scenes in the book will stay with you forever. The TV version left almost everything of signifance out because it was not suitable for general audiences.

And finally, that stupid spider at the end WAS NOT what IT is described as. I was laughing my ass off when I watched this stupid ending.

Read IT, and be changed forever as a horror fan!!

[countchocula]

It's a little unfair to condemn a film just because it betrays its source material. It's solid on its own merits. If you simply must judge it as an adaptation, didn't It do a decent job of cramming 1,100 pages into three hours?

[angelinwhite]

I think it was a mistake to try and make it into a TV movie. The source material is far too horrific to try and portray in a toned down way on television.

I generally hate TV movies regardless because they are so bland, but to take a phenomenal book like IT and viscerate it to the point of laughable really hits a raw nerve with me.

I can understand those who haven't read the book thinking it was good, but I would implore anyone who saw the TV series to read the novel. Then you'll know what I mean.

Should never have been made by TV.

[Raymond Babbit]

I didn't really like this movie. Tim Curry was really good as Pennywise. But the special effects sucked (not their fault, it was a t.v. movie).

Maybe one reason I didn't like it was because I read the book before seeing it. I realize it would have been almost impossible to include many of the psychological aspects of the book. But that's why this movie shouldn't have been made. The ending also sucked.

[Romero&Juliet]

I bought the DVD a few days ago and for some reason, I remembered pretty much everything about it, which is kinda rare cause I have NO memory for movies.

sheesh.. some fucking BIZARRO love triangle going on in the first half.. they were Eleven, for christ's sake!

ermm.. the transfer was really nice on the DVD.. alot of the flashback stuff in the second half of the movie had this wierd grainy thing going on.. ermm.. or mabye it was because I had a fever..

either way, I could've done without the melodramatics in the beginning of the second half. it was just toooo annoying..

[bowieee]

My friend emailed me this today. Thought you guys might enjoy it.

[Tony Montana 83]

Ayte, I watched this movie yesterday for the first time! I must say the 1st side of the disc was pretty good (Childhood days)...But the 2nd got dull! Ending could have been better.

[WamphyriNate]

If you never read the book before watching this it would be way cooler. I have to agree with angelinwhite however about taking such a true masterpiece of horror and making it for network TV. As much as I wanted to see it, I was a little disappounted. Not that It isn't cool on it's own, but jeez... nothing nearly as cool as the book. The only way to REALLY do the book justice would be to make a 6hour version of it on HBO or another cable channel. That way the true vision might be preserved. The TV version was not too bad, I like it. But It deserves better treatment.

[Shatter]

I rented this a few years ago, and the only thing I didn't like about it was that the video store I rented it from didn't mark Tape 1 or Tape 2 and it took me a while to figure out which was part 1.

[bowieee]

I'm reading the book right now and so far its been really good. I was reading it out in the sun and I was still getting freaked out.

[Droog989]

I liked the movie (miniseries???) enough, but I wouldn't go as far to say that book was better. It definately has some better moments (the line "everyone floats down here", i can't hear anything even close to that without thinking of that fucking clown on the creek, but I had problems with how entirely similar the old/young segments in the book were. it was almost like he was repeating himself, and the book had so many damn good parts to it that it kinda aggrivates me that he seemingly took up space just too mirror the two stories, when he could have easily cut down on some things. Anyways, still good in general, and yes, Tim Curry as the clown was brilliant. That man knows how to wear make-up :D (yes, you could use that as a reference to Rocky Horror Picture Show)

[Michael_myers]

The book frightened me in aspects of displaying inappropriate use of those poor kids sexuality

(Henry in the dump, Patrick in the dump, Bevvie in the mirror looking at her nubs)

Pretty creepy shit.

Oh yeah the clown was funny too. He he

[Kastman]

This movie would have been completely fricking awesoem if it hadn't shown the second half of the movie. The kids part where there was pennywise stalking them and such was awesome, but it went downhill from there on. And that bug thing at the end, what a fucking joke.

[Shogun_Assasin]

im still trying to recover from the state of horror this movie put me through.when the kids are looking at that old book and one of the pictures comes to life and pennywise jumps out at them...jesus christ...

[Odd Emu]

Good movie. I'm reading it now also. I'm up to chapter 7. When I'm done with it I'll probably read Dreamcatcher and then Everything's Eventual.

This movie also scared me senseless as a kid. When Pennywise comes up from the drainage pipe in the showers and when their in the sewers trying to kill it.

The second half wasn't as strong, didn't have as many scenes with the Clown pennywise. I agree the giant bug thing also sucked.

[gorysnoopy]

Originally posted by angelinwhite
Whether or not you like to read, you MUST READ THE BOOK!

It pissed me off to no end that it wound up as a made-for-tv movie. If it was ever made for the big screen, without all the censor concerns, and was directed by a great director, it could easily be the most terrifying film of all time.

I'm sorry, buth the TV movie sucked raw sewage! I had read the book and I knew for a fact that television would leave out EVERYTHING that made King's magnum opus so powerful. Only Pet Sematery has produced abject terror like IT.

If you think the TV movie was good, wait till you get entrenched in the book. King goes into territory in this novel that most other authors dare not tread. Some of the murders and atrocities committed by Pennywise will traumatize you. You'll laugh at the TV movie after reading this monument to horror.

One more note. Once you read the novel, you will fully understand what Pennywise is. He is indeed a manifestation of the "IT" in it's most common form. But the true horror of the novel is that IT feeds off human's fears and whatever a child fears, it can become, AND DOES!

Some of the scenes in the book will stay with you forever. The TV version left almost everything of signifance out because it was not suitable for general audiences.

And finally, that stupid spider at the end WAS NOT what IT is described as. I was laughing my ass off when I watched this stupid ending.

Read IT, and be changed forever as a horror fan!! Thank you,thank you,thank you!You said everything that i feel only so much more eloquently.

[rushmore beauty]

I did not like this movie at all. Tim Curry was good, but that's it. Talk about one disappointing ending...a 4/10 on a good day.

[JurassicShark]

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[ERIN_LoJ]

I loved this movie. I have it taped somewhere. The ending, I agree, was boring at times. Some of the cast was annoying, and the first half was better, but...overall a favorite King movie for me.

I haven't read the book, was never into Stephen King's writing, he seems to drag on for me, But I'm definitely going to read the book now.

The spider thing never sat as stupid for me, but I did feel slightly cheated at the end like many other people.

IT brings back memories for me for another reason. I always loved horror and figured my brother would too. So...I had him watch it with me as a kid, LOL It never would have bothered me at the age he was (I'd say around 7 or 8) but it definitely bothered him. Now he's traumatized and terrified of clowns and hates horror...(sigh)

[JurassicShark]

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