It Chapter 1 & 2: Every Monster Explained & Ranked

5. The Painting Woman

Sometimes called Judith or Lilith, Stanley's haunting from the first movie - who briefly pops her head back up in the sequel - is a hell of a creature. Looking an awful lot like something Guillermo Del Toro would design, the over-tall, grotesquely malformed woman also looks like she could be the twisted sister of Edward Munch's Scream.

Her reveal in the first film is one of the crowning moments of the Losers Club members' individual hauntings, not least because it channels nothing more sinister than Stanley's fear of the creepy painting (though it's tied to the weight of expectations heaped on him too). And the sequence allows for a traditional, suspenseful "she's behind you" moment that makes your blood run cold.

She returns later to almost kill Stanley, confirming his greater susceptibility to fear (which of course informs his part in the sequel), and then in the final battle with It in chapter 2, his head briefly takes her form as he's defeated.