8 Horror Movies That Told The Audience Too Much

6. It - The Finale 

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Having spent three hours terrifying audiences, 1990's It stumbled to a limp, wet finale.

This made-for-TV movie adaptation - itself split into two parts - of Stephen King's 1986 novel was so, so good for so, so long, but the ending just took the wind completely out of It's sails. After Tim Curry had wowed as Pennywise, the conclusion of this tale saw the maniacal, murderous clown revealed in its true form. And man, that true form was absolutely awful!

To the credit of director Tommy Lee Wallace and his writing partner Lawrence D. Cohen, the ending they gave audiences is exactly the way things played out in King's novel. The only problem is, the visuals that can be conjured up in a book are often vastly different to what can be conjured up on film - especially back in 1990.

Should Wallace's It have veered off into a different path and not followed the ending of King's book? Usually, one would say absolutely not. In reality, if this adaptation did change things up for its finale and not tell us about Pennywise's real form as much as it did, it couldn't possibly be worse than the clunky, cartoonish spider creature that closed out It.

Andy Muschietti's more recent two-part It adaptation fared a little better on this front, although even the ending of Muschietti's pair of pictures still had a bothersome conclusion - again due to largely sticking to the source material.

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