While we’re not in the year where everyone is terrified by clowns outside of the theater (and may we avoid having another clown attack in this decade), we still have to worry about the clowns inside the theaters and on our television screens. The sequel to clown horror of 2017 came when It: Chapter 2 hit theaters, somehow managing to feel longer than the 1990 miniseries (and I’m not saying that lightly, as someone who had the bright idea to start the miniseries at 11 o’clock at night) and also pack more into 2 hours and 49 minutes than perhaps it needed to. It’s a long movie, and it’s so fill of flashbacks that you wonder why some of this information couldn’t (and wasn’t) covered in the original film. But that does not mean that It: Chapter 2 is an unworthy successor. While It (2017) is arguably the better story, or at least organized better, It: Chapter 2 is larger, and in many ways, scarier because of where it is allowed to start. You may have to put up with story decisions that don’t necessarily matter or even add to the film’s plot, but when the movie wants you to be scared, you will be scared.
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