Stephen King's IT: What The Ending Really Means

2. The Other Victims Don't Survive

Bev obviously escapes from It's enchantment thanks to Ben's seize-the-day moment when he kisses her, and the only really lasting effect seems to be her awareness of the vision of the future in which It returns to fight the Club once more.

The explanation to all of this is a little... odd. Firstly, it makes little sense why It would only partially feed on Bev, since nothing is gained by using her to lure the others to the lair (they're already there, so her being dead wouldn't have changed anything), and then the idea that "love" would be the thing that breaks the spell is a little Disney.

It's a nice idea sure, but it then just opens the film up to more questions. For instance, were the other kids not saveable with kisses too? Obviously some of them could have died from lack of food and water, but if the feeding only put them in a catatonic state, then some of the more "fresh" ones should be alive. Why didn't Ben to think to kiss them too?

Anyway, the reality seems to be that the others are already dead (hence Bill's acceptance of Georgie's death), and only Bev was protected with plot armour.