Words Tim Heap
The horror genre is the movie industry’s Marmite: you love ‘em or you hate ‘em, and there’s little middle ground. I sit on the “hate it” side of the fence, rarely mustering the courage to watch even the naff est scary film. What makes it easier is that few of then win critical acclaim. But one that certainly was well received is 2017’s first half of a two-part remake of It, based on Stephen King’s 1986 novel that centres around an evil entity which assumes the form of murderous demon clown Pennywise.
Set 27 years later (2016), It Chapter Two arrives in cinemas in September and (spoiler alert) opens with a homophobic hate-crime scene that didn’t feature in the Nineties TV adaptation.