HBO Max’s IT: Welcome to Derry has already confirmed that it’s fixing one main character criticism from Andy Muschietti’s IT films. Six years after the discharge of It: Chapter Two, the much-anticipated prequel has lastly arrived.
Whereas the flicks give attention to the Losers Membership’s encounters with It, the TV present delves into Derry’s previous. As teased, It: Welcome to Derry has a multi-season plan, with the primary season following the occasions main as much as the burning of the Black Spot.
On high of the brand new story, It: Welcome to Derry additionally options a wholly new forged, aside from Invoice Skarsgard as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Nonetheless, the tales nonetheless exist throughout the identical world, that means the present is liable to the identical points as the flicks. Fortunately, it has already taken steps to handle one main criticism concerning the villain.
It & It: Chapter Two Acquired Complaints That Pennywise Wasn’t Violent Sufficient
One of many largest complaints about It & It: Chapter Two is that Pennywise (used interchangeably with It on this article) had many alternatives to kill its victims and simply didn’t. As a substitute, the shapeshifting alien simply scared the Losers Membership, moderately than taking deadly motion.
The Stephen King guide says concern “salts the meat,” making it style higher, which provides the villain a motivation to scare them. Nonetheless, when it comes all the way down to it, It will possibly maintain itself on simply the sufferer’s flesh/soul.
Contemplating It killed not less than 380 individuals within the guide – the precise quantity is a supply of debate – the kill depend between these films is fairly low.
Pennywise has but to make an look in It: Welcome to Derry, although different types of It seem.
Solely three characters die onscreen in It (2017), and all are by the hands of or influenced by Pennywise. In the meantime, seven kills (not together with the villain) occur in It: Chapter Two, and solely 4 of them are brought on by the villain, both by way of thoughts management or bodily motion.
It: Welcome To Derry Already Fastened The Motion pictures’ Dying Complaints
It: Welcome to Derry has solely two episodes out as of the time of writing, nevertheless it has already mounted the complaints about Andy Muschietti’s films. The premiere ends with a terrifying bloodbath on the movie show.
It takes the type of a mutant bat-baby monster and kills all however one of many youngsters within the theater. The second episode confirms that this actually did occur, moderately than being a dream. Solely Ronnie Grogan and Lilly Bainbridge survived the carnage.
The opening scene of Welcome to Derry episode 2 exhibits that one of many victims is eaten alive, whereas one other is thrown round like a rag doll earlier than getting slammed towards the theater wall. The present handled its characters with reckless abandon, and the choice paid off.
The Film Theater Bloodbath Hints How Welcome To Derry Will Be Extra Gory Than The Motion pictures
The movie show bloodbath wipes out the present’s model of the Losers Membership in only a single episode, setting very totally different expectations for Welcome to Derry than what the viewers had for It and It: Chapter Two.
The advertising and marketing for the TV present centered closely on the kid characters. But, It: Welcome to Derry wasn’t afraid to take them out of the image so shortly. Primarily based on this truth alone, no person is protected within the HBO Max prequel. What’s extra, there may be certain to be way more gore and blood than within the films.
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October 26, 2025
- Community
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HBO
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Andy Muschietti
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IT
