10 Movie Openings That Wanted To Piss You Off

10. Adrian Mellon's Murder - It Chapter Two

It Chapter Two received a considerable amount of flak for its savage opening sequence, which adapted one of the more contentious and unforgettable sequences from Stephen King's book: the death of Adrian Mellon (Xavier Dolan).

The film picks up in Derry 27 years after the original, where Adrian, a young gay man, is attending a carnival with his boyfriend. The pair are attacked by a group of homophobic youngsters, culminating in Adrian being thrown into the nearby river while his boyfriend helplessly watches.

That's not the end of it, though: Adrian just barely reaches the shoreline, where he's intercepted by a returning Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård), who promptly bites out his heart as his boyfriend watches from across the riverbank.

Some criticised director Andy Muschietti for lingering on the homphobic abuse suffered by Adrian, that it was excessive and unnecessary to convey Pennywise's return to Derry.

Yet beyond the fact that this scene appears in King's novel, our anger is precisely the point - it's supposed to be nauseatingly brutal, while exposing the ugly undercurrent that still exists in modern Derry beyond the shapeshifting ancient predator that's just rematerialised there.