Guilty Pleasures #49 - IT (2017) (A Strange Halloween)

A scary clown in a sinister town
Unfurls a truly dangerous world
Kids must fight, or death by fright
As if on cue, it begins anew

Now a reboot takes the stage
IT again released from its cage
Scary and funny and all things between?
The time approaches: A Strange Halloween.

OK, so what happens when you take half of book and this time give it an actual budget, well let’s find out as we conclude our ITrospective

And when I say budget, it’s not exactly high at only $35m, which it far exceeded with a $700m haul at the box office. Damn that’s good! It’s also been lauded critically with 85% of critics and 84% of audiences liking it, according to Rotten Tomatoes. With average ratings of 7.2/10 and 4.2/5 respectively.

Guilty Pleasures #48 - IT part 2 (A Strange Halloween)

Derry Maine is a dark town
It has its ups, and has its clowns
But when 7 kids enter the fray
They'll face their fears and save the day

Years have passed since the creature was slain
And now they must face their fears again
For the truth of the creature is yet unseen
IT has returned on a Strange Halloween

Last time on IT… You got the decent part of this mini-series, now for the weird part. Let’s dive into the second part of IT.

Guilty Pleasures #47 - IT part 1 (A Strange Halloween)

Tracking its pray like a well-oiled machine

IT is coming on this Strange Halloween

How better to compliment a series about kids going up against a monster than another one. This is IT, and it’s seriously it, because we’ll be doing all of it over the next 3 weeks.

The popular Steven King Novel has received 2 notable adaptations, before we get to the movie, let’s start with the mini-series. And it’s a long one so we’re going to be doing it in 2 parts. The disk I have is double-sided, we’ll do each side separately. Unlike with the Secret Empire review though, I think it’s fairer to grade them separately. You’ll probably see why in part 2

But enough of the chit-chat, let’s start this ITrospective