Or at least, the clown should have stayed in the picture. Stephen Kings It is, strictly speaking, a television miniseries but Its been shown edited together so often that Its considered a film for all intents and purposes. Tim Currys Pennywise The Dancing Clown is an iconic villain, played to perfection Its been suggested, incorrectly, that a good deal of the reports of coulrophobia in individuals across the western world in the 21st century is down to people having seen his terrifying performance on television as a child and therefore wigging the hell out. The first part of the film got all of the good reviews, though. If youve seen It since, youve probably asked yourself why at the climax the kids from the first part, now fully grown, are fighting a giant special effect in the caves beneath the town. The creature that gives the film Its name is able to appear as your greatest fear by feeding off your imagination the reason that It appears as Pennywise is that fear of clowns is a baseline fear in people, and so It is able to appear to more than one person in that form. Apparently It is a lowest common denominator thing, or something. Whatever the reason, the film is only genuinely scary when a psychotic clown with filed teeth and claws is terrorising a bunch of children. When It skips to thirty years later, It takes all the fun out of It. The rest of It is dreary nonsense.