Talking with EW, costume designer Janie Bryant explains that the costume...

Only if they whitewash the Jews.

Well, I must say that he does looks more than a pedophile now!

That will scare the kids

everything about it reeks of SyFy garbage

fucking hell he's not a character even, he's an old god-servant of tak

they make him look like the fucking leto joker

Found the retards who never read the book and only watched the made for TV movie.

Most of the stuff done by Hollywwod these days (more like decades) have been SyFy shit, 2.0.

You would expect quality production values, but then that would cost more marginal costs, goy! We cant have that.

The TV movie was good.

Yes, but the representation of Pennywise was nowhere near how it was in the book. He's a Bozo knockoff in the movie, and an actually terrifying clown in the book.

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Why are they remaking It anyway? They'll never be able to top Tim Curry's performance from the original movie and they can't include the best scene from the book, so what's the point?

Because they can still include all the rest of the R-Rated material.

A lot of people never saw the TV movie and probably think it has to be shit since it was on TV.

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Mods, get this nerd outta here.

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In the book isn't he meant to be based on a real clown that lived in their world?

What kind of real clown looks like that?

He's meant to be an amalgamation of all things terrifying to his prey, which is in this instance kids. This is why he takes on the form of a clown, but since he's not exactly trying to blend in, he can be as terrifying as he wants to be.

The pictures from the new movie may look a bit overkill, but for all intents and purposes that is how he looked in the books, not the Pennywise we see in the TV movie.

Why do I suspect this is a "Christians are evil bigots" thing?

This is beyond retarded – Pennywise took the shape of various things kids feared, that's where the clown thing came from. As other anons said, he took lots of different shapes in the book.

Wanna be edgy? Show the implied sex-scene between the minor-girl and the even younger boys.

I hope they include the mummy-scene and the watertower-scene from the book, that was probably the only parts of the book i found entertaining.

it really isn't, though. He was described as looking like Bozo the Clown, the TV version pretty much matches the book.

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IT's first scenes traumatized millions of kids who watched it on primetime without supervision, or with clueless parents.

why does he look so familiar?

I like the part where they intentionally covered as much of it in shadow as possible because looking directly at it for too long makes its painfully obvious how unimpressive and stupid looking it is.

I like the buck teeth and the outfit, which does look like outfits some clowns wore in the 1800s. The cracked face paint and the design that looks like hooks are going into the corners of his mouth are a bit too try hard though.

It all comes down to the actor though, and if his performance is any good. The only reason the Pennywise from the TV movie is so effective is because of Tim Curry's performance. They could have put someone else in the same costume and it wouldn't be nearly as scary.

Also, fun fact, the original's makeup was going to be more gruesome and have more exaggerated features but after doing Legend, Tim Curry didn't want to do anything where he was under heavy prosthetics again. So, on his request, they simplified Pennywise's look, and found that it was a lot more effective.

I was one of those kids. The movie felt like one big bait and switch. The advertisements made it look like it would be a something like The Goonies, with kids going on an adventure. Plus, almost all the adults were played by people from popular sitcoms (like John Ritter and the judge from Night Court) so no one thought it would be super scary. I don't know if they intentionally cast comedy actors to lull people into a false sense of security or not, but it was brilliant that it turned out that way.

Looks like the companion pic to some really shitty creepypasta.

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gas yourself

>>>/lit/

PENNYWISE

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What did he mean by this?

IT turned into much cooler shit, like a werewolf, creature from the black lagoon, a humongous black bird, and your own father (eager to rape you).

I thought it was implied that It just possessed (or maybe goaded) Bev's dad into it.

if i ever had a kid afraid of clowns id knock his fucking head off

what kind of faggot is afraid of clowns, thats the dumbest gayest fear there is

what about a fear of puppets and ventriliquist dummies?

kids see the world like they're on a permanent acid trip. they have imaginations that can be fucked up seeing shit like puppets and for example a giant fucking man in a costume dressed like a character in toy story.

but clowns have people faces. it's just paint, there's nothing for their stupid faggot kid heads to stumble over

Clowns are men with faces underneath their current one, who come with pleasure when they spot you.

why do they wear the mask?

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this period down syndrome abbey cancer must stop. He's not even disquieting. What made the old pennywise scary was the contrast between his appearance and his behavior.

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This. He isn't supposed to look like a fucking Silent Hill creature when in clown form, the entire point of it is to lure unsuspecting children, which would be fairly difficult if he looked like that.

See, the thing about clowns is that they aren't scarry. It's not that a circus performer is inherently scary, it's the fact that their makeup and outfit makes a human look like something slightly different than a human. That minor difference sets off our instinctive "Stranger Danger" because what we see and what we know it is are two different things. This discord makes us nervous, so even harmless actions are perceived to have an air of danger to them. Since children have difficulty with higher thought acrobatics, they can't work it out and tell their brain to stop worrying and start panicking. This childhood fear reinforces that nervous feeling as an adult, so you have a hard time shaking it off even when you know that it's just a guy earning a paycheck. Because you know the truth, but can't quell your nervousness, you start to think it must be something else. You suspect that there is something other than his clownness that is triggering your subconscious warning signals, and the cycle starts over.

That's why a simple generic clown outfit will wind up being scarier than a monster clown outfit. If it looks like a monster, then you know it's a threat and then it's no different than a wild animal. Without that human/inhuman dissonance, it can't generate fear in adults.

This is a very good explanation of this.

Both of these. And this extends to Santa Claus costumes too. It's the fact that someone is obscuring their visage in plain sight. I've seen plenty of times where a kid will run up to some old hippy or biker or what not that has all the stereotypical Santa features with no fear whatsoever but dad or uncle Joe in an identity hiding Santa costume causes immediate terror. It doesn't help that, from the child's perspective, all of the adults that they look to for safety and comfort don't appear to notice that there is a fucking imposter in their midst and worse yet those adults are often actively trying to get the child to approach the Clown/Santa/Ester Bunny/etc.

Also the classic clown that we think of when we hear the word clown is the Auguste which is a wild anarchic creature. People typically don't get freaked out by hobo clowns, rodeo clowns, Pierrot, or jesters.

this shit doesn't fly anymore. horror has moved on
why are jew producers so fucking retarded?

are they trying to make this American Horror Story: Derry?

The TV movie marked my childhood. Saw it as a 6 year old as a rerun on Sky 1 and IT haunted me since I was about 10 or 11 when I got out of that phase.

But this is my reaction to how the new Pennywise looks like.

He seriously looks like a really cheap fucking hooker.

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this is as bad as the cringeclown

First thing that came to my mind was the image of a kid with downs, high waist pants with a pee spot on them.

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I seriously hope you guys aren't scared of this.

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Every other user who saw it as a kid claims to have been scared by it, how is it not successful? You're looking at it as an adult. Either you never watched it as a kid or you were too old when it first came out (no little kid reads Stephen king books).

Yes they do as they really aren't hard reads, but just a bit long when it came to IT.

Stephen King is a fucking hack

Well he is now, but some of his early stuff is pretty good. Especially his short stories.

I read the book as a kid and saw the movie last month. I was terribly let down and I'm 90% sure that kids are fags.

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IT was designed to scare peoples faggy children.

yeah i started with eyes of the dragon when i was 7 and read everything he wrote by the time i was 12. even kept up with his new stuff through the garbage that was geralds game and rose madder to the utter trash that he shat out after his car accident

I am okay with this. I don't know about the others, since child actors are usually pretty iffy in the acting department.

giant spider was spoopier

after watching that, I really don't feel the need to watch a direct Stephen King adaptation any time soon. a heavy King influence is fine, because then you can cut out some of his more annoying tendencies (like how at least half of his protagonists are writers or become writers GOD DAMN IT 11/22/63)

did somebody photoshop this? There's no texture on the white kids they all have a solid pasty color to them.

He's a horror writer.

They're wax recreations of the real cast.

does he really just ghost write for people?

You should gas yourself for not being able to read, dipshit. Old Pennywise was not even remotely scary.

he was pretty scary as a kid

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Sweet Dee made a scarier clown.

It had a name before those Mega64 retards. It was called the Kubrick Stare because many of Stanley Kubrick's characters did it.

Kong fills his books with so much shit that they honestly aren't worth reading. Like in Cujo where he spends chapters talking about the dads fucking cereal fiasco

Why did they call her sweet D? It sounds like a porn name like heaven Lee.

It's unsettling