Review: IT- The Thing

The film that left clowns unemployed

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Every 27 years Pennywise returns to terrorize the city of Derry, Maine and now also to cinemas.

In 1990, exactly 27 years ago, the first adaptation of the homonymous work by Stephen King, in mini-series format. Now in 2017 comes the first feature film, which serves as much with a new adaptation as a remake production and since its first release promises to be the best terror of the year.

In fact, the film manages to be quite scary and to stay true to Stephen King's accounts in his book. Merit of Bill Skarsgård, which delivers excellent performance Pennywise, capable of making anyone uncomfortable in their appearances, in partnership with the great direction of Andy Muschietti, who shows a lot of talent when placing the camera at the right angle to make the scene even more tense.

Bill does a great job, but he's not the only talent in the film. In reality, the entire cast delivers exactly what was promised, especially the children's part made up of Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer , Wyatt Oleff and Sophia Lillis. Everyone can pass on the main characteristics and peculiarities of the character or need any explanation, using only good performance to expose their personal issues to the public. Sophia Lillis is the only exception, even delivering a good performance, the actress slips a little in some scenes and leaves something to be desired in moments of great tension.

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The IT Losers Club: The Thing | Image: Warner Bros.

Adaptations are always complicated and those of Stephen King become even worse. Generally, the author's audacity - who is not afraid to put heavy words, shocking scenes and prejudices exposed in a very realistic way - complicates the service when exposure to a wider audience is needed and censorship becomes a huge problem. IT- The Thing suffers a lot from it, no matter how much he gets the message of prejudice in his plot, he can't keep it shocking like the original work. In other changes, the choice is right, especially the idea of leaving aside the complicated Flashbacks throughout the book. Keeping the story separate, with a focus on children and then showing the adult part, was a success both to make the film more fluid and to help in the company's marketing.

Another well thought-out change was to invest less in a number of ways than Thing assume and maintain Pennywise as the original form whenever possible. In the feature film, the creature does not become the most recent fear of the person, but the strongest, this makes the appearances a little less shocking, but the pattern works better, both to reduce production costs and to use more of the resource it should be used and abused: The representation of Skarsgård.

There are some explanation problems, the script invests very little in connecting Pennywise to the city and does not even try to present the origin of this creature. However, it is not an issue that actually hurts at the moment, as there is a promise that this will be explored in the sequel.

It- The Thing delivers exactly what was promised in the disclosures. A horror well done, with several references for the most fanatical fans of Stephen King's work and maintaining as much of the taboos presented in the original story as possible. It is a production that will please readers and non-readers of the book, which manages to involve and leave the desire to see more when leaving the cinema.

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