Shawn Van Horn has been a Senior Features Writer for Collider since 2022 with a focus on horror, and 90s TV and movies.
The Big Picture Stephen King has written a plethora of great novels over his half-century career. There are plenty of favorites to choose from, like Carrie, The Shining, Misery, and countless more, but his most terrifying is 1986's It, thanks to his iconic villain, an alien in the form of a clown, Pennywise. The novel led to a wildly popular miniseries in 1990, with Tim Curry turning the clown into legend.
Release Date September 6, 2019 Director Andres Muschietti Cast James McAvoy , Jessica Chastain , Bill Skarsgard , Finn Wolfhard , Bill Hader , Sophia Lillis Writers Gary Dauberman , Stephen King Georgie's Death in 'It' Isn't the Most Horrifying Pennywise Kill Whether it's the 1990 ABC miniseries or the 2017 feature film, that opening scene, with young Georgie meeting Pennywise in the sewer is one of horror's most famous moments, and it deserves to be.
'It Chapter Two' Has Several Frightening Kills From Pennywise Close Both the first part of the miniseries and the film version of It are celebrated for how well the child characters work. The followups, when the adult versions of those kids enter the picture, are less celebrated due to them not being as interesting anymore and the plot going off in a wild direction
A more chilling death later on involves a child, Victoria , a girl with a birthmark on her face. Pennywise lures her under the bleachers during a baseball game, where it manipulates her, honing in on her insecurity, to tell her that it too is mocked for its looks. Victoria falls for it, a bullied child in need of a friend, and goes to Pennywise, only for it to bite the birthmark and her face right off. Both of those examples are intense and scary and hard to watch.
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