It (Muschietti, 2017) Movie • Page 19

The image from the book is easily the most horrifying thing in the film, for me. Aside from the opening.

 

Already posted^ I enjoyed their critique though. Never watched them before, and I agree with the part about the first half of the mini series holding up.

 

Shit, I pulled a Drew.

 

Riddles with jump scares that weren't great at being jump scares.

The moment with the librarian in the background was one of my favorite shots for sure.

 

Mike: "This place used to be a beaver trapping town"
Richie: "Still is, am I right?" *hi fives*

 

The one liners in this were great.

 

Though these two kids were next to me and my friend, with their parents in the row behind them. The kids were talking the entire time, and I eventually had enough and told them they need to quiet down during the movie. The parents then told me not to talk to their kids, which I replied that they have been talking and disruptive the entire movie. They completely disregarded it and said I'm not allowed to talk to them. Pretty awkward. Complained and got free passes after.

 

I've seen pretty much every major horror movie of the past ten years and will say that this was scarier than most

 

I just cannot get behind that statement.

 

Very few can get behind your statement about it not being scary either, so...

 

IDK I kind of look at this like Get Out, more of a thriller with heavier narrative commentary than actual scares. Not saying that scary negates other aspects in films, but in this film it felt like it. It just wasn't that scary. The Witch was far scarier if we are talking past few years, even The Conjuring 2 had more prominent scares, though both lacked the bonds and emotions around the main characters that we saw in this.

 

I haven't seen the movie yet, but for me jump scares can be okay when used properly. What I can't stand are false jump scares. Like when a character is peeking around a corner and a cat jumps out and the music swells. It's false, cheap, and dumb. But an actual jump scare from a real threat can be fine when used sparingly

 

This movie is the first one to do jump scares right. No fake out ones that I can remember. They did the dreading tension and jump scares really well. Most movies just have one or the other (Witch and Get Out are all tension and almost every other horror movie is jump scares). Really nice to see a movie utilize both very well.

 

What would you say is a movie with good jump scares? The Conjuring is the only one that comes to mind right now.

 

Scary in what sense? I found the opening scene frightening and still think about his speech pattern/change of tone but a lot of the other "scares" in the film were typical haunted house type film jump scares.

As I said before It hanging from the meat hook in the scene with Mike was haunting imagery and super effective.

 

The Conjuring is a good choice. The Strangers had a few too. Over all jump scares don't work for me and seem cheap. I liked that they worked in IT.

 

Seeing this tonight. I honestly don't expect to be scared at all but I do plan on being thoroughly entertained.

 

The contorted Pennywise climbing out of the fridge in Neibolt that came toward Eddie and held him up against the wall was fantastic horror imagery. The fact that he mocked a suffering, terrified child made it even scarier.

 

Despite the fact that I didn't think this was scary, I think I may go see it again to see if I like it better now that I know what I'm getting. I also saw this at the movie tavern where they serve food throughout so I'm sure that deterred from the movie.

 

Yeah I talked about that part in one of my earlier posts too, very good scene

 

Nahhhh

 

weird. i didn't think it was very scary at all.

 

I agree with it. He said scarier than most, not that it was THE scariest movie.

The theater I was in went crazy when the projector scene and the basement "you'll float too" scene. I think saying most the Penny Wise scenes weren't effective is not a popular opinion, even if it is in here.

 

The opening for this is fucking bonkers