Stephen King's It

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Horror fan 4 An absolute classic. Tim Curry is excellent as pennywise. Tim Treakle Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/31/25 Full Review Brian W. After reading the book I watched this before the newer movies and it’s just not very good. Really terrible ending compared to book. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/30/25 Full Review Rafael S For its time, it's a good 3-hour movie. Tim Curry delivered the best and scariest Pennywise of the 90s. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/29/25 Full Review Ash P Let's wrap up the month of October with the final week of one of the two series that I have in mind for the last week. One is the original Toxic Avenger movies. The second are the IT movies. We're looking at the original 1990 IT movie. It's been a long time, so I might be rusty with both the old and the new. I am due for it, but where's the fun in that? The movie takes place in Derry, Maine, where a few children have been killed by a mysterious entity called Pennywise the Dancing Clown, played by Tim Curry. Tim Reid played as Mike Hanlon, who is a librarian who discovered one of the murdered children, figuring out that IT has returned. Mike calls on the rest of his group of friends, who are part of the Losers Club. Richard Thomas played as Bill Denbrough, the stuttering founder who had an experience of Pennywise who kiled his little brother, George. Annette O'Toole plays as Beverly Marsh, who is a fashion designer who goes through abuse in both family and her current relationship. John Ritter plays as Ben Hanscom, who used to be the fat kid of the Losers Club who has a crush on Bev. Harry Anderson plays as Richie Tozier, who is the comedian of the group. Dennis Christopher plays as Eddie Kaspbrak, who is asthmatic and has lived with his overbearing mother as a child and still as an adult. Lastly, you have Richard Masur, who plays as the Jewish boy scout of the group named Stanley Uris. This is actually a miniseries where we see them as kids in the first half of the movie, and we see their reunion in the second half of the movie. The kids are played by Ben Heller, Marlon Taylor, Adam Faraizl, Seth Green, Jay Ryan, Emily Perkins, and Jonathan Brandis. The adults get a flashback of their childhood back at Derry about what they have experienced with Pennywise, who is just spooking them. It never crossed my mind why Pennywise doesn't just scare the kids, but I digress. If I have to be honest, the first half was good for why we see Pennywise going after the kids. When we get to the second half as they've grown up, it does drag. Not to mention, they love to go back to the kids as best because they know that the kids steal the show. We also learned a little bit about Pennywise, yet it felt like we knew little about him. The imagery in this was nice to give off some spooks, and the effects they were were stop motion. Sadly, I just didn't find them that scary. I actually laughed at them more than it was supposed to deliver fright. To be honest, it felt like a Tim Burton project when it came to some of the stop motion and the trinkets that were featured in this movie. That could go the same for balloons. There is a symbolism on why the balloons are about a beacon of hope and the spirit of childhood. Thinking that it would lure children into Pennywise's clutches to devour like any clown would give a child a free balloon back at that time period in the 60s. Still, it's silly for where they were going. Of course, Pennywise is more than what he is as he does change into various forms of what the children of Derry fear the most. Even more so as he has a final form and the reveal of what he really is one of the silliest things that exist in cinema history. I would explain what it is, but that would mean I would be sharing spoilers. There is a message of confronting your fears even with the support of your friends. Honestly, there is a kind of hidden message that involves forming a circle of friends of different races and religions. If this were to be out today, it'd send certain folk into a frenzy. The Losers Club does consist of a fat kid, a girl, a black kid, a Jewish kid, someone with a medical condition, and someone who has a stuttering condition. It makes sense that we have to treat others as human beings equally. You could make the argument that it was technically tokenism. However, that term might be dying down soon enough since we're living in a weird state of the world where everyone gets too comfy with their mask off. If you know what I mean by that, congratulations on understanding such a topic. This is a three hour long movie, which will test your patience with good acting, especially Tim Curry's performance, for just having all the fun in the world. I could say the kids played well for being just kids who are being confronted by Pennywise and his various forms of their fears. There are some bully characters, too, but they are forgettable. They do die in the movie, anyway. What? They are played as generic bully characters. Some of the camera work does get awkward at times, yet it's not terrible cinematography for focusing on the characters interacting with one another, whether they're kids or adults. It isn't a terrible movie, in case you'd want to know. It has its moments, yet feels more like comedy than it was meant to be horror. I do have the book and would read in the future whenever I do get into reading it. This was just a decent movie with a subtle message. I'm gonna give it seven Losers Club forming a circle to conquer their fear out of ten. 7/10. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/27/25 Full Review Green C No cell phones, no computers. Wonderfully innocent and refreshing. A bit corny but a fun time. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/26/25 Full Review Tom R Tim Curry as Pennywise is a must see. Overall this really isn't too bad an adaptation, but you must be patient with it, as its not an easy book to translate to the screen Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/13/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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