Film
IT: Double Bill
- Director
- Andres Muschietti
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 304 mins
Yep – it’s five full hours of horror with both chapters of this second screen adaptation of Stephen King‘s 1986 novel (there was a TV miniseries back in 1990, remember?).
Andrés Muschietti, the Argentinean director of Mama, is behind the camera, with Swedish actor Bill Skarsgård, of Eli Roth’s TV series Hemlock Grove, as Pennywise – the eponymous pesky transdimensional shape-shifting evil entity who pops up to force a septet of teen outcasts to face their personal demons. Go here for our full review of Chapter One.
Two years on from the first film and 27 years on from the events it depicted, the Losers Club are back in the decidedly unloserish adult forms of James McAvoy (Bill), Jessica Chastain (Beverly), and so on for Chapter Two. Hell, even fat kid Ben, now played by Jay Ryan, is svelte and prosperous (can accusations’ of ‘fatism’ be far away?). Still, the good news is that they have another appointment with Pennywise the dancing clown (Bill Skarsgård again). If Chapter Two matches the success of the first film, which now ranks as the highest-grossing horror movie of all time, don’t bet against an It: Chapter Three in which Pennywise pops up to menace the pensioner Losers.
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