Tag: Pennywise
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REVIEW: Pennywise – The Story Of IT (2021)
dir. John Campopiano & Chris Griffiths Although Andy Muschietti’s It movies (2017; 2019) broke box-office records and rode high on a wave of post-Stranger Things retro-inflected content, for many their first encounter with Pennywise the Dancing Clown came nearly 30 years earlier, when he crept into their living rooms. Made at the tail-end of the […]
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ANALYSIS: The Power of the Losers in IT (1990)
Spoilers Much like Pennywise’s cyclical slumber, there was a 27 year gap between the original TV adaptation of IT in 1990 and Andy Muschietti’s big screen iteration. But what did the mini-series have to say about its central septych of characters, the Losers Club? Kim Morrison heads back to Derry to find out… The mini-series […]