Just in case the first two trailers for the upcoming Stephen King movie IT didn’t cause you to have scary clown nightmares, they have released even more clips and pics since we last check in on the movie that are sure to get the job done.
Director and producer of the film, Andy Muschietti, recently spoke to French magazine Mad Movies about what we can expect (other than peeing our pants a little)…
“This is an R rated movie. I’m very happy about that, because it allows us to go into very adult themes. Each ‘loser’ knows a situation of despair, on top of the terror of It and the fear of heights. Beverly’s case is of course the worst, because it’s about sexual abuse on a minor. But each kid is neglected one way or the other. Bill is like a ghost in his own home: nobody sees him because his parents can’t get over Georgie’s death. Of course, Ben is bullied at school. We don’t know much about Richie’s personality, because he’s the big mouth of the group. But we suppose he’s also neglected at home, and he’s the clown of the band because he needs attention. Long story short, there’s all sorts of difficult situations, and we had the chance to tell them in a movie that faces directly those conflicts. In particular, the families of the young actors were very open-minded, so we could tell the about subjects that are normally very touchy.”
Well, that sounds sufficiently horrible. These are those members of “The Losers Club” for those who haven’t read the book or seen the original film. (Swipe to see them all.)
Just to mess with your mind even more, Barbara Muschietti, another producer of the movie, also revealed there was one scene that even they thought was too horrifying to put in the film…
“To tell everything, you won’t find the scene where a kid has his back broken and is thrown in the toilets. We thought that the visual translation of that scene had something that was really too much. But for the rest, we removed nothing from our original vision, and we didn’t water down the violence of any event. We believe the fans will be thankful to us for keeping that aspect of the novel in the movie. Well, for now, none of the people who saw the screenings left the theater! I got to say we escape a lot of objections thanks to the context of the story, since it’s the kids’ fear that feed the monster.”
Well, that’s certainly comforting.
Here are some of those clips and pics I mentioned in the headline…
Oh, by the way, here’s the full third trailer we haven’t posted yet, because, scary clowns, yo…