8 Movie Scenes You Didn't See (Thanks To Test Audiences)

7. Floating Heads - It

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One of the breakout horror movies of 2017 and igniting Stephen King fever once more, the first instalment of Andres Muschietti's It is memorable in all the right ways. Expertly blending psychological horror with The Goonies, and tinged with a Instagram-filter worthy shade of 80s nostalgia, the film brings together all the best qualities of a good King novel and turns them into terrifying reality.

It should come as no surprise then, that in true Stephen King fashion, a fair amount of changes had to be made after test audiences first saw the movie due to the sheer amount of explicit violence on screen.

Telling a horror story involving a group of kids battling an ancient, unstoppable evil that takes on their worst nightmares is an ambitious project, and one that saw Muschietti's vision bring about a much darker tone.

According to one viewer, the original cut contained more gruesome, upfront death scenes, decapitated heads in the barrens, as well as longer speaking scenes for Stan and Bill's mother. Everything was far darker and intense, with plenty more bodies that all float down in the sewer - bumping the run time up to over three hours. Yikes.

 
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