A closeup of IT Chapter Two's poster at Cineplex Saint John.
Andy Muschietti concludes the tale of the Losers Club and Pennywise the Clown in It Chapter Two.
In the adaptation of the second half of Stephen King’s classic 1968 novel It, twenty-seven years have passed since the Losers Club defeated the child-killing cosmic horror Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard, Assassination Nation) but children are disappearing once again from Derry, Maine.
Mike Hanlon (Isaiah Mustafa), the only member of the Losers Club to remain in Derry, calls the others (James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean) back to their hometown.
The adults are scarred and damaged from their shared experiences as children (Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer), but must face their deepest fears once again to destroy Pennywise once and for all.
“It” (2017) was the highest grossing domestic and international horror film and R-rated horror film of all time (unadjusted for inflation), making over $700 million worldwide.
The film kicked off a Stephen King-aissance in pop culture and a probable rise in coulrophobia – the fear of clowns. Pennywise’s inevitable demise should bring vindictive closure to audiences traumatized by the creepy clown from hell.
IT Chapter 2 opens in theatres today.
