15 Horror Movies You Can't Miss In 2017
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The making of Stephen King's doorstop page turner has the whiff of a decent Blu-Ray documentary extra about it. Since the deadlights were switched on by New Line Cinema in 2009 for this to be adapted, Cary Fukunaga was poised to direct and spent a good few years hammering out a script - he promised his version to to be 'The Goonies meets a horror film', which frankly sounds amazing - but that all changed in 2015 when he apparently clashed with New Line and scampered on to pastures new.
Mama director Andrés Muschietti is the man that has now wrestled King's complex vision into the can and despite Fukunaga's version showing promise, with a film that has the likes of Nicholas Hamilton and Finn 'Mike from Stranger Things' Wolfhard on the cast list, pitted against an already terrifying looking Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise The Dancing Clown, it's looking hopeful that this generation's version of the story will be a big hit and retain the coming of age grimness of King's text.
Eighties babies will always have fond memories of being scared out of their romper suits when Sky's miniseries first aired, and, if this big screen version beholds half of the malaise in this loved two-parter, then that really is something to get terrified and excited about.