Stephen King's “It”: 10 Things The Remake Must Get Right
2. Keep It Weird
If there's one thing that the television version of It isn't, it's generic. Seriously, though many think the 1990 version doesn't hold up to much scrutiny, it's undeniably a very odd film, shunning traditional scare tactics for techniques much more bizarre.
Take the scene in which one of the children hears the voices of several dead children coming from the drain in her sink, for example, followed by an inflating balloon that pops and covers her in blood. Or what about when Pennywise shows up while Eddie's in the shower? It doesn't rely on a jump scare, it puts its weirdness front and centre.
The point is, It is so much more than a ghost story or a clown slasher: it's so odd it's disorientating, and that's one quality the remake can't afford to lose.