10 Awesome Movie Villains That Had Totally Lame Deaths

The 20th century manifestation of an ancient evil, Pennywise The Dancing Clown sure knew how to push some buttons. If coulrophobia (the fear of clowns) wasn't a thing after Poltergeist and the 1990 Stephen King's It, Skarsgård and director Andy Muschietti made damn sure it was by 2019.

Pennywise has the ability to induce our deepest, darkest fears and in turn feeds from that fear, whether it's clowns or germs, he's going to latch onto that one thing and keep pushing those buttons until you're nothing but a corpse in a storm drain.

The 1990 version took lame to a new level when, after a cracking and terrifying start, he transforms into a plasticine stop-motion spider/crab thing and presumably melts on the top of a radiator somewhere down the sewer. In 2019, while again off to a great beginning, the climax descended into another crummy Stephen King ending.

Confronted and finally cornered, The Losers Club, minus poor Eddie, take a leaf out of Nancy Thompson's playbook (see the Freddy Krueger entry) and decide to take away his power of fear. Reduced to nothing more than a whimpering puppy creature, Pennywise, who has survived millennia, can't face the awesome and terrifying power of a few insults. He is clearly more sensitive than we thought. Aw.