10 Reasons IT Is Better Than The Original

8. The More Brutal & Mature Tone

The original TV film wasn't exactly a feel-good time at the movies, but due to the restrictions of airing on an American TV network, the harder edges of Stephen King's source material had to be filed down, especially as it pertains to the violence that Pennywise inflicts upon the children of Derry.

As an R-rated movie, It 2017 has no such obligation: the movie opens with Georgie getting his arm ripped off in stunningly brutal fashion, and features numerous other sequences in which kids and adults alike are killed or harmed.

In addition, it also features frequent, believable profanity from the Losers, and nods more explicitly at the sexual abuse suffered by Beverly. At the same time, though, none of this feels merely for the sake of it, but in service of doing justice to King's original story.