Although the GTA version of Pennywise isn't quite as scary as It's Pennywise, he can kill people just as well.
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Pennywise the Clown, It Pennywise falls under the supernatural category which is an unfair advantage for anyone trying to escape his wrath.
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It, however, is probably best known in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown — and, in the new trailer, Pennywise is not the only clown on the block.
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Bill Skarsgård's 2017 Pennywise, meanwhile, appears to be all horror.
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His brother is also Pennywise, so be very afraid Shelton.
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Click ahead to check out the coolest Pennywise beauty looks.
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It's Pennywise wishes he could stretch his smile that wide.
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Instead, the house where the main characters confront Pennywise collapses.
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So she took the most logical precautions and burned Pennywise.
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But once Pennywise was killed, the winds, too, were dead.
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Pennywise the Clown might be back to haunt your dreams.
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Beyond defeating Pennywise, Chapter Two doesn't really seem to know.
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As we reported last autumn, Pennywise, the evil clown from IT, summoned a collective lustful moan from the monster-fucking corners of the internet (culminating in the still-great, still-active Pennywise Confessions Tumblr).
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And since the recent film adaptation hit cinemas last week, terror clearly isn't the only thing Pennywise has been inspiring... can we talk about how everyone is developing a weird crush on the new pennywise ?
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Charged by Mike with finding tokens from the past they can use in their fight against Pennywise, each character wanders Derry and experiences both a flashback to their younger selves and an encounter with Pennywise.
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Fortunately, it's worth watching to see McKinnn's fantastic depiction of Pennywise.
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Of course, the Pennywise Confessions Tumblr is a little bit different.
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It might sound strange, but the new Pennywise is better looking.
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This parallels Stephen King's lore that Pennywise reemerges every 22018 years.
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Pennywise, the clown from "It," may be the scariest movie clown.
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Even Bill Skarsgård's performance as Pennywise follows in a similar vein.
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Reunited with Pennywise, I saw what had drawn me to him.
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So now, IT's go-to form is Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
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"Pennywise is constantly on the level of bursting," the actor said.
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In the novel, The Outsider is kind of similar to Pennywise from IT. Both can shapeshift, but while Pennywise becomes more powerful as it feeds on fear, The Outsider's source of fuel seems to be sadness.
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The "encountering Pennywise one by one" dynamic gives It its biggest problems.
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And is Bill Skarsgard's character secretly Pennywise the Dancing Clown in disguise?!?
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To the adult mind, at least, this Pennywise is far more terrifying.
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That's right, Pennywise is here and he's just as freaky as ever.
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That's right, Pennywise is here and he's just as freaky as ever.
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That fucking Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård), he just comes out of nowhere sometimes!
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He, er, seems to have forgotten that Pennywise does not actually exist.
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Castle Rock star Bill Skarsgård played Pennywise in the 2017 movie adaptation.
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"Pennywise is one of the greatest monsters of all time," Muschietti said.
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Bill Skarsgard originally starred as creepy clown Pennywise in 2017's "It."
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Any chance that this gang could send Pennywise to the Upside Down?
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Moments later, Pennywise can be seen eating his remains on the riverbank.
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"pennywise from IT is now a gay icon and he's dating the babadook" you go offline for a few hours and miss history being written fuck sake — David (@dvvidmurray) September 73, 27 Pennywise and the babadook are in a queer relationship pass it on — Calvin McSmith (@CalChuchesta212) September 22017, 2017 WHO STARTED SHIPPING THE BABADOOK AND PENNYWISE AND WHY DO I SHIP IT TOO — ㅤ (@grahamslexa) September 13, 2017 I want to see the alternative ending of IT where the kids lose their fear of Pennywise by shipping him with the Babadook.
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In It, Pennywise attempted to entice the young Georgie with popcorn and balloons.
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Still, for Pennywise alone, It has earned its place in pop culture history.
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Take, for example, the opening scene, in which Pennywise chomps off Georgie's arm.
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It's not just the smile — Skarsgård transforms his entire face to become Pennywise.
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In 1986, the Stephen King novel "It" introduced a murderous funnyman named Pennywise.
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Last year, everyone wanted to be the murderous clown from Maine named Pennywise.
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A classic Pennywise cosplay of Stephen King's 'It' here to ruin your day.
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It's no Pennywise, but for adult viewers that might be even more horrifying.
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You can buy a Pennywise the clown costume for $54.99 at Party City.
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"Kids were coming out of their houses, wanting to meet Pennywise," she said.
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The singer dressed as Pennywise from the "It" movies for her second costume.
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Is it weird that I have a crush on Pennywise the Dancing Clown?
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At one point, Richie shouts, "It's not real!" and Pennywise seems to disappear.
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Back when I loved him, Pennywise fit in with my then religious perspective.
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When Pennywise emerges from the sewers yet again, Henry finds his ticket out.
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In the new IT movies, Bill Skarsgard's dancing face lends Pennywise his mischief.
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Unless you're a pro makeup artist, pulling off It's Pennywise is a laudable feat.
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Please arrive in your own Pennywise best and be ready to float with us.
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Yep, Pennywise has a squad of face painters to roll with — err, kind of.
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It's important to let others know where you stand #babadook #Pennywise #CoupleGoals #HappyHalloween2017 pic.twitter.
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Watch the video below (Skarsgard talks about the Pennywise teddy bears at 1:53).
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Eventually, she managed to finally set Pennywise ablaze with the help of newspaper kindling.
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But it's the way which Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the clown curls his lips.
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Adrian doesn't drown but, instead, meets a grim fate when he's found by Pennywise.
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"Mission: Impossible — Fallout" was transcendent, as was "It Chapter Two's" final battle with Pennywise.
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The group defeats Pennywise and agrees to return should anything happen in the future.
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Helping was the presence of a marquee villain in Pennywise, played by Bill Skarsgard.
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Pennywise, the murderous clown in It, used red balloons to lure children into his clutches.
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Fortunately, she made the boggart a little easier to defeat than the child-eating Pennywise.
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But what if there was a way we could make Pennywise a little less scary?
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"Here," whispers Pennywise, holding up Georgie's paper boat from the darkness of the storm drain.
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That's it: Pennywise is Freddy Krueger — a small-town specter stalking kids in their minds.
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Kersh explains, as Beverly notices one particular photograph of what looks like Pennywise sans makeup.
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Pennywise, the clown from Stephen King's 1990 movie "It," may be the scariest movie clown.
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Tate spent months creating her Pennywise clown costume, and Krell dressed as the character Georgie.
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Pictures: The Pennywise Balloon Lamp and the latest movie are both available ahead of Halloween.
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Interesting description coming from the guy who is literally locking up kids like Pennywise. pic.twitter.
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Amidst the confusion, a gigantic Pennywise-spider-crab hybrid thing appears and begins to attack.
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Assuming Pennywise is using a reverse psychology trick, they first open the Very Scary door.
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The only thing that might frighten or disturb you is the death of Pennywise himself.
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According to the Daily Dot, plenty of folks have confessed to having sexual fantasies about Pennywise.
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Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent: Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise, however, is fear itself, that most penetrative of emotions.
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That evil clown Pennywise, a spectacularly scary Bill Skarsgard (Alexander's brother), is the stuff of nightmares.
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However, in the teaser trailer for It: Chapter Two, Pennywise gets a run for his money.
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But already, its menacing star, the "clown" Pennywise, has successfully spooked one group: the movie's cast.
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Skarsgard's Pennywise has a far more sinister edge, marked by piercing yellow eyes and contorted movements.
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Jacobs played Mike Hanlon in It alongside his Castle Rock co-star Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise.
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Oh, and speaking of "It," a lot of people decided the Babadook and Pennywise are dating.
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While we're in the '90s, let's check out Pennywise dancing to "I'm Blue" by Eiffel 65.
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He did the Pennywise smile on air, and honestly, it's even creepier without the clown makeup.
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Seconds later, they notice a weird balloon pyramid and behind it, Pennywise the clown (Bill Skarsgård).
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This one is directed by Andrés Muschietti (Mama) and stars Bill Skarsgård (Hemlock Grove) as Pennywise.
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Imagine Pennywise embodying the concept of our primarily undiscovered understanding of a never-ending outer space.
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Courtesy Thames Water Pennywise isn't the only terrifying thing hanging out in the sewers these days.
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Firebox is selling a Pennywise Balloon Lamp that mimics the red balloon in the movie 'It.
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I'm most excited to see Pennywise, a horrifying Bill Skarsgård, terrorize and haunt the new cast.
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Bill Skarsgard looks immensely different from Pennywise the clown, who he plays in the "It" movies.
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Police advised anyone in the state who spots suspicious Pennywise lookalikes to call a tip line.
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The monster in "It" — who takes the form of Pennywise — also comes back every 27 years.
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Bill's attempt to save one of the children of Derry from Pennywise is an admirable one.
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After all, what's Elphaba without her signature green pallor, or Pennywise without his creepy red eyeliner?
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Remember the mention of Pennywise (the clown from IT) hidden in the first Dark Tower trailer?
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In fact, It's Pennywise has also been referenced in books like Dreamcatcher and 11/22/63.
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"Pennywise was this looming force they knew was coming but hadn't seen yet," Mr. Skarsgard said.
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For the past 27 years, Mike Hanlon (Isaiah Mustafa) has been studying how to kill Pennywise.
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This brings them in direct conflict with Pennywise, a clown who captures children and devours them.
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This is strange, because Pennywise generally seems like a really, really upsetting person to be intimate with.
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The internet obviously makes finding like-minded kinksters easier, but the fetishization of Pennywise isn't anything new.
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In the 1990 version, Pennywise climbs a lamppost and stares out of the picture at the kids.
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Bill Skarsgard, who played the evil clown Pennywise, will be back for a second round of scares.
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The first, a 1990 miniseries, is mostly remembered for Tim Curry's iconic performance as killer clown Pennywise.
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With a big-screen version of Stephen King's It, featuring bloodthirsty supernatural clown Pennywise, hitting theaters Sept.
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Basically, It has proved that Pennywise is the scariest supernatural entity to ever grace the big screen.
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Not long after Richie and Bev defeat Pennywise for the first time, they meet a time traveler.
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Even as you watch Pennywise prey upon innocent children, you're confident that you are not in danger.
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Between Pennywise to Donald Trump (don't do it), everyone will look to pop culture for their inspiration.
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The folks at Firebox say that buyers of the lamp are "pennywise" because of its low price.
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And hell, even Pennywise was getting in on this action with records like Land Of The Free?
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The finale hinges on a "Nightmare on Elm Street"-type cliche in the fight to defeat Pennywise.
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Ultimately, they end up in conflict with Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard), a homicidal clown who preys on children.
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Morphing into an infant-like creature, Pennywise peels apart like old paint while screaming of his greatness.
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When Pennywise was unleashed upon the town, we understood exactly what that meant for our lead characters.
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They are reassembled in their hometown to address the return of the dangerous and mysterious Pennywise (Skarsgard).
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"It would make sense to cast someone with any kind of appeal in the [Pennywise] role," says Stokes.
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Instead of Michael Jordan or Derek Jeter, it's popular characters like Pennywise the clown or The Golden Girls.
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Along with Pennywise the Clown and the Red King, the Wendigo is one of Stephen King's primary antagonists.
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In It: Chapter Two, the horrifying clown Pennywise is back to torment the now grown-up Loser's Club.
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Leroy and Dick barely make it out, and come face to face with Pennywise, dragging away the corpses.
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As in the novel, Claude Heroux slaughters everyone around him with an axe, driven to madness by Pennywise.
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The shipping of Pennywise the Clown from It with the Babadook marks the end of that meme's subversiveness.
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Mr Newsom responded by comparing Mr Trump to Pennywise, the evil clown from Stephen King's horror novel, "It".
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Allow us to introduce you to Pennywise Dancing, a Twitter account that is guaranteed to make you laugh.
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With the It sequel already scheduled for a September 2019 release date, Pennywise isn't going away anytime soon.
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And you thought that Pennywise biting off Georgie's arm was the worst thing you would see in theaters.
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Even through the early years, those bands like Pennywise, Bad Religion, and NOFX were underground at that point.
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The Revenant's Will Poulter was originally tapped to play Pennywise for this adaptation, but has reportedly back out.
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And while Trump was a popular costume last year, Pennywise from "It" dominated this year with the canines.
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Pennywise, the clown from It, was a foodie in his own right — he just liked human children meat.
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Stephen King's other high-profile adaptation this year is "It," starring Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise The Dancing Clown.
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Contributing Opinion Writer It took Donald Trump to make me associate Franklin Roosevelt with Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
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Mrs. Kersh tells Beverly she's the daughter of a carnival worker who happens to look just like Pennywise.
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Starring Bill Skarsgard as the homicidal clown Pennywise, "It" is the first of a planned two-part series.
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The idea behind IT Chapter Two is that to defeat Pennywise, they must understand where he comes from.
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The evil spirit often appears as a clown named Pennywise in order to ensure its preferred victim: children. Yikes!
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Thanks to a worldwide gross of over $572 million, just about everyone is familiar with It's scary clown, Pennywise.
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As fate would have it, the September release of It floated Pennywise into theaters and the rest is history.
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The way the kids defeat Pennywise is pretty similar, though at one point, It manifests as a tentacle monster.
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Before that, it was Pennywise the Clown from It, who literally consumes children and has really lame dance moves.
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Plus, when Skarsgård does the Pennywise smile, sans makeup, the resemblance between him and Steve Buscemi is very noticeable.
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Not just make meaningful reform or increase regulatory oversight, but treat it like Pennywise treats the schoolchildren of Derry.
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Imagine Pennywise riding a bar graph of those numbers like an evil slide then devouring you at the end.
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I want punk to come back, but it's weird that people keep asking for NOFX, Bad Religion, and Pennywise.
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Fans are probably most familiar with the property thanks to the 1990 miniseries that starred Tim Curry as Pennywise.
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"I wanted to look as far from me as possible, and I knew Pennywise would be perfect for that."
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The upcoming Wrinkles The Clown documentary examines the real-life Pennywise that rose to Internet fame five years ago.
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"I think everybody who liked Pennywise got off the wagon really early," says Chris Hannah, the band's vocalist-guitarist.
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The two share a spine-chilling exchange before Pennywise floats down to scare the pants off Richie up close.
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In "Chapter One," when we had test screenings, people were fascinated by Pennywise, but they wanted to know more.
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As the saying goes, life is like a balloon from Pennywise, you never know what you're going to get.
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While Pennywise preys on children's fears and appears as whatever they're most scared of, The Outsider feeds on sadness.
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IT plasters himself with an unnatural grin, takes on the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and wreaks havoc.
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Now, Stephen King's Pennywise the child-eating clown is back, with bloodier teeth and a fresh set of victims.
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Eagan dressed him up as the frightening clown, Pennywise, from Stephen King's It, and the results are eerily fantastic.
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The actor's unique physicality is part of what made him so chilling as Pennywise, perhaps the greatest King villain.
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The little plumper was apparently hanging inside the sewer like a whiskered Pennywise, feasting on some discarded sewer foods.
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Clown-only screenings are happening in cities globally, while this toddler dressed up as Pennywise will haunt your dreams forever.
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Fun Fact: Bill Skarsgård's embodiment of Pennywise came 19783 years after Tim Curry played the role in the 21978 miniseries.
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There's plenty of theorizing in It about the nature of Pennywise—and the nature of evil—but no definitive answers.
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King's latest movie adaptation of It — based on his iconic novel about the murderous clown Pennywise — hits theaters Sept. 24.
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But it's been a few days, and time, great cosmic eraser that it is, has diminished the horror of Pennywise.
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The biggest surprise, though, is that through all of this, Pennywise being hot is still a part of the conversation.
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But the moment before — which shows Pennywise opening his jaw with the aid of some questionable CGI — undercuts the horror.
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Pennywise (played by Bill Skarsgard) has been nibbling on the raw end, based on the blood smeared around his smile.
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The problem is, The Tommyknockers is set two years after IT, when Pennywise is meant to be dead and gone.
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James Corden may not be quite as scary as the actual Pennywise, but he still does a pretty convincing job.
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Tate started planning her Pennywise Halloween costume in January and estimates that the entire ensemble cost about $400 to create.
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Now, people can flip the switch and make their very own Pennywise cake with the help of YouTube channel Koalipops.
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A dark, gritty Pennywise origin story following his early adventures fighting a giant, interdimensional turtle god in some other universe?
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She is the daughter of Pennywise and was brought up by him and incorporated into all of his evil ideas.
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At the end of that film, they made a vow to return to Derry if Pennywise should ever come back.
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Pennywise the Clown returns to the town of Derry in the first anticipated trailer for It Chapter 2, released on Thursday.
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Play off of the recent revival of Stephen King's It with this girl-inspired version of the classic It clown Pennywise.
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All due respect to Pennywise, but some things are never as scary as they are when they're magnified several hundred times.
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At the end of the first movie, the Losers Club vows to come back to fight Pennywise, should he ever return.
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Pennywise may be the literal embodiment of evil, but you've gotta hand it to him: Dude is nothing if not consistent.
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The trickster tied red balloons to sewer grates, a move murderous clown Pennywise used to lure children in the horror flick.
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So far, we've mostly seen Pennywise lurking in storm drains or hiding his mug behind a set of creepy, red balloons.
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All you have to do is take out the Demogorgon in favor of Pennywise The World's Most Frightening Clown (Bill Skarsgård).
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Pennywise is back, everybody, and he's ready to wreak some terrifying clown havoc on the unfortunate people of Derry once again!
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The kids launch their assault on Pennywise, and we watch as the evil mastermind does everything he can to thwart them.
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The scariest thing at 2019's box office isn't Joaquin Phoenix's clown, or the uncanny valley felines of Cats, or Pennywise.
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Not content with just scaring kids and giving everyone nightmares, Pennywise seems to have found himself a very 2017 side gig.
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In "It: Chapter 2," the defeat of Pennywise is almost like a late-series Freddy Krueger movie: surreal and CGI-heavy.
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The Losers Club is all grown up and has to team up one last time to take down Pennywise for good.
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Kersh and her family hung on the wall â€" spotting someone who looks distressingly like Pennywise in the process â€" Mrs.
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I didn't know if I could sit through it—through IT, that is, the terrifying, hit film starring Pennywise the clown.
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His friends' death is slightly different than the book — Henry watches as Pennywise kills Vic and Belch, and is obviously traumatized.
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The most unsettling clown I saw this year was not the Joker or Pennywise, but a well-meaning jerk named Nate.
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While Pennywise and the Joker have been literally tearing up our screens, it's been pretty a tough time for regular clowns.
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Even if you know what's coming, it's terrifying when Pennywise, this time played by Bill Skarsgard, pops up from the sewers.
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The story always reminds you that Pennywise is born out of the rotting putrefaction of small-town America, specifically Derry itself.
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Wednesday's trailer still doesn't give us much insight into that, but it gives us another peek at IT star Bill Skarsgård's prisoner character in the new series—no, he's not playing Pennywise this time, since Pennywise lives in Derry, Maine—and once again proves that Maine is an awful place to live if you're a Stephen King character.
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Of course, when she becomes a movie monster like Pennywise or a "foodlebrity" like "Lasagna Del Rey," it's never a perfect rendition.
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As far as scares go, this one is pretty predictable; we know Pennywise is in the house the moment the door opens.
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If you really want to terrify your friends and family for Halloween this year, just dress up as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
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The scariest clown not named Pennywise requested a dozen fried shrimp, a bucket of KFC chicken, fries, and a pound of strawberries.
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Bill Skarsgård doesn't look much like Pennywise in real life — in fact, there are plenty of BuzzFeed articles devoted to Skarsgård's attractiveness.
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INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) -- LeBron James dressed up as Pennywise, the devilishly demented clown from the movie "It" for his annual Halloween party.
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As if that trendy prank wasn't enough, people are channeling Pennywise again — this time in the form of creepy jack-o'-lanterns.
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We guess this is the latest confirmation that Pennywise has earned his place as internet's new crush because it's a strange world.
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The group quickly comes to the realization their childhood horrors aren't really over when Pennywise returns and has set out for revenge.
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Pennywise lifts his face, revealing needle sharp teeth, and lunges forward screaming in a way that suggests part rage, and part glee.
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You are thinking about John Wayne Gacy, Pennywise, probably something involving a dark basement, and, if you are an FBI agent, Juggalos.
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Despite coughing up all that dough for one night, one of the most popular costumes for 2017 is — ironically — Pennywise from "It."
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Running amok is Pennywise, the dancing clown, played by Bill Skarsgård, who has surfaced periodically throughout history to terrorize and kill children.
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Beverly and her grown friends (now played by the likes of James McAvoy and Bill Hader) reconvene to battle Pennywise yet again.
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Pennywise the clown, the designated predator in "It," (played by Bill Skarsgard) is, like Freddy Krueger, an avatar of deep childhood fears.
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The supernatural nastiness embodied by Pennywise is abetted and to some extent camouflaged by the ordinary human awfulness that also afflicts Derry.
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The Outsider, a shape-shifting monster similar to IT's Pennywise, is able to take a person's DNA and take on their form.
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In the film, the Losers don't remember It, Pennywise (the amorphous monster's favorite form) or the specific horror of their childhood years.
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It: Chapter 2 flits back and forth between the original storyline and 27 years as the Losers Club reunites when Pennywise resurfaces.
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Maybe Pennywise the Clown is the reason you obsessively avoided showers and ended up reeking of BO for most of your early adolescence.
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Rather than introducing Pennywise as an eerie anomaly, a glitch in the universe, the trailer presents the moment as a straightforward jump scare.
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See, Pennywise the Clown is actually this evil entity who feeds on emotions and was birthed in some mysterious dimension called the Macroverse.
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In happier news, Pennywise is immune to the filter, so at least one of us can stay the way we want to look.
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Adorned with an obnoxiously neon-green cover, the CD showcased a dozen of the label's top acts like Rancid, Pennywise, and Total Chaos.
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Looks like this is in the House on Neibolt Street, which is the setting for the Losers' Club's first group encounter with Pennywise.
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The final trailer for It Chapter Two has arrived and it really leans in on the supernatural terror that is Pennywise the clown.
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" Newsom responded by tweeting a clown emoji and adding, "Interesting description coming from the guy who is literally locking up kids like Pennywise.
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Think of it as the Loser's Club banding together to defeat Pennywise, except none of us have to actually venture into the sewers.
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Sure, when some of us think of clowns, we imagine joyous birthdays, grown men driving tiny cars, and maybe the nightmare-inducing Pennywise.
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After the kids have defeated Pennywise in the book, Bev has sex with each of the boys in the Losers' Club in turn.
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Young residents of Derry are disappearing again, and the Losers Club must defeat Pennywise once and for all, saving the children who remain.
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The 29-year-old Swedish actor made his debut as Pennywise in the 2017 horror movie "It," based on a Stephen King novel.
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The hit film It is actually pretty terrifying but that didn't stop the internet from turning Pennywise the clown into a hilarious meme.
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First the film became a box office hit and then Pennywise the clown took over the internet with a series of hilarious memes.
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Pennywise appeared just four times in the March teaser, and those visuals are spaced out, keeping you watching for the clown's next turn.
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Beverly ultimately escapes the ordeal, but not before running into Pennywise ripping at his own face in a display of gut-churning gore.
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Several of King's characters have already been made into Funko figures, including Pennywise the Clown from IT and Jack Torrance from The Shining.
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The trailer for the documentary Wrinkles the Clown was recently released, and it features a real-life clown eerily similar to It's Pennywise.
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Her bloody encounter with Pennywise closely recalls images in two other famous King screen adaptations, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Brian De Palma's Carrie.
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But there are seven kids in the Losers' Club, and all seven of them have to have jump-scare-filled personal encounters with Pennywise.
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The Daily Dot notes that Pennywise' male scary clown form is just one of many, since his true shape isn't revealed in the film.
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In a 2015 interview with Moviefone, Curry had warm words for the those working on the remake and the next Pennywise, actor Bill Skarsgård.
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The lighting is moodier, the atmosphere feels more oppressive, and the introduction of Pennywise at the scene's conclusion is a lot more eerily subtle.
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With a mutual love of outrageous fashion and terrorizing children, Pennywise and the Babadook are the queer power couple you didn't know you needed.
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That darkness is given human form by Bill Skarsgard (recently seen as Pennywise the Dancing Clown in last year's big-screen adaptation of It).
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Fans on Twitter have put together that Pennywise is pretty much a boggart, a type of being that exists within the Harry Potter universe.
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When Georgie lost his arm to Pennywise in the storm drain, I dropped my Pop-Tart and flipped channels, but it was too late.
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As one fan site tweeted, the character looks like a mashup between Pennywise from It and one of the masked killers in The Strangers.
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Unfortunately for the easily disturbed and squeamish, there's no guarantee that the devil's deal Pennywise makes won't show up in the film's planned sequel.
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This film will follow only the novel's 1958 timeline, in which a gang of pre-teen outcasts called The Losers' Club battle with Pennywise.
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We've been getting increasingly terrifying looks at Pennywise, Stephen King's demon clown, since Warner Brothers dropped its first It reboot trailer back in March.
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Pennywise lead guitarist Fletcher Dragge is suing Uber claiming one of its drivers made him wipe out on his bike last 4th of July.
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In the books, the kids aren't greeted by Pennywise when they finally reach the lair in the sewers: they're greeted by a monstrous spider.
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I thought that by this point in the franchise, trailers wouldn't really be able to cull additional scares from the specter of Pennywise himself.
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He frequently dresses them up as iconic movie characters, and his rendition of his little brother as Pennywise from the movie IT went viral.
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"My sister asked me to shoot her engagement pics so I hid Pennywise the Clown in every photo," he captioned the photos on Twitter.
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It's like inviting Pennywise the Clown, the demon from Stephen King's "It" who feeds off your fears, over for a nice cup of tea.
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If the homophobic attack had to happen, was there not a way for Pennywise to go after the hateful bullies instead of the victims?
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Pennywise is from the Macroverse or "Todash Space" and so is another villain, Dandelo, a monster from The Dark Tower who feeds on laughter.
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Its resting state is the form of a terrifying clown named Pennywise, but fundamentally It takes on the form of whatever children fear most.
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In fact — and this association comes as no surprise — the camera films Mr. Marsh's face from below, the same angle by which Pennywise is filmed.
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Buzzfeed writer Ryan Broderick also investigated a series of DMs one Twitter user received from a conservative user, apparently enraged that Pennywise might be gay.
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Early press images of Pennywise have already done the legwork of visually separating Bill Skarsgard's version of the character from that of Tim Curry's portrayal.
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In an interview with Vulture, Matt Duffer explained that It, King's work in general, and Pennywise were somewhat responsible for his and the show's development.
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They both played infamously evil clowns, but It's Bill Skarsgard sees some major differences between his Pennywise and Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight.
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Two teaser trailers for the film were released this spring, and the first photo of Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the Clown was released last year.
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At least our Pennywise looks like a standup guy who can take a joke, as does that creep from Monterey who messed with Nicole Kidman.
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Looks like we'll have to settle for this storyboard demo – just like Wonder Woman and Pennywise have to settle for all that box-office money.
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Party City is now selling a two-piece costume that includes a Georgie outfit for you and a Pennywise shirt and wig for your pup.
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The movie It has made its way into the digital world of Grand Theft Auto V, and the horrible clown Pennywise is just as murderous.
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Artist Steven Holliday, for instance, painted a portrait of a kid from It holding a red balloon reflecting the face of Pennywise, the deadly clown.
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And over the years she's graced our pages dressed up as Pennywise the Clown, a nun, Yoda, ramen noodles, Karl Lagerfeld, Justin Timberlake, and more.
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A carnival float depicts President Trump as the horror movie character Pennywise during a presentation of this year's carnival floats in Cologne, Germany, Feb. 18.
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Pennywise the Clown returned to terrify Derry, Maine, once more in the conclusion to the 2017 hit horror film based on the Stephen King novel.
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Skarsgård, the actor behind the terrifying villain Pennywise, made the revelation while speaking at a press event his new horror comedy Villains, according to Joblo.com.
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So he's the first to realize that Pennywise has returned — after the clown brutally murders someone who's already been the victim of a hate crime.
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May's Pennywise fit stole the show -- seriously, don't let your kids see it (get it!) -- but his teammates had some pretty incredible costumes as well.
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For instance, the horror fan might fancy a terrifying look at Pennywise, the killer from It, or a reminder of how frightening The Shining is.
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Observant fans have pointed out that hidden amongst the dolls and masks is an homage to Tim Curry's version of Pennywise from the 1990 TV movie.
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When not in his resting state as Pennywise, It constantly shape-shifts between horrifying phantasms and images of real people from the lives of our heroes.
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"[Derry is] not only the place where the Losers live and have their exchanges, but it's also the extension of the evil of Pennywise," he said.
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But, as is the general theme of Stephen King's It, a famous 23 novel about an immortal killer clown named Pennywise, horror never really goes away.
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Gustaf is one of the Skarsgards: His brothers include It actor Bill Skarsgard (of Pennywise the Dancing Clown fame) and Big Little Lies alum Alexander Skarsgard.
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Yet with apologies to Pennywise, having watched those hopes sink more often than float, if they measure up to the anticipation, they'll be bucking the odds.
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Things are looking freakier than ever: There's a creepy-ass fair in town, which is great news for Pennywise and a terrible development for everyone else.
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The evil clown hysteria started simply enough, with a few kids in South Carolina reporting creepy Pennywise-types lurking in the woods near their apartment complex.
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The trailer concludes with a shudder-inducing voiceover in which Pennywise, sounding absolutely salacious, tells the Losers that he's craved for them to return to Derry.
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The pop-up's got some cool stuff -- a Pennywise-themed Ferris wheel and classic carnival games served as a great warm-up before the final destination.
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Pennywise will once again be terrorizing Derry on the big screen when the "It Chapter 2" movie opens in cinemas across the nation on Sept. 6.
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You can see practical effects artists Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis break down how they created the Pennywise mask in this video shared by PopSugar.
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It's tough to say whether Eddie's pharmacy encounter with Pennywise is the most graphic scene in IT Chapter Two, but it is without question the grossest.
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The leader is Bill (Jaeden Lieberher), a melancholy, thoughtful boy whose little brother, Georgie (Jackson Robert Scott), has been spirited down a storm sewer by Pennywise.
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Pennywise, first played by Tim Curry in 1990's "It" television miniseries, preyed on the innocent and poisoned the sense of security of a small town.
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He does the same with Pennywise, leaving any sense of mystery and dread out of the film, but replacing it with sharp shocks and Uncanny Valley creepiness.
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Guys with poor senses of humor are running around like Pennywise the Clown, schools are going into lockdown, and professional clowns are losing jobs left and right.
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Pennywise is the beacon of nightmares in the upcoming sequel to the runaway success that was 2017's IT, based on Stephen King's popular 1986 horror novel.
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When the Losers finally get fed up and fight back against Bowers and his minions, it's almost more satisfying than the fight they ultimately wage against Pennywise.
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These references don't necessarily lead anywhere (like a Wendigo-Pennywise spin-off), but they add a sense of richness and life to King's already fascinating fictional setting.
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Regardless, it's another example of King's anti-Trump fire to file away while we wait for King to meet Snoop Dogg halfway and mash Trump with Pennywise.
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The members of the "Losers' Club" are all grown up, but upon their return home, they're horrified to discover that Pennywise the Clown (Bill Skarsgård) has resurfaced.
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The best thing about the original It miniseries — and the only thing it has going for it over the later film adaptation — is Tim Curry as Pennywise.
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It dives right into the present day, and doesn't explain who Pennywise was before he began preying on the children of Derry, Maine, in the year 1989.
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Unfortunately, neither the Babadook or Pennywise are able to comment on the relationship because they're both fictional characters and queer meme culture has gone way too far.
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The creature is a shape-changer, but it often wears the face of a dancing clown named Pennywise (played by Bill Skarsgård), because clowns are forever creepy.
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Skarsgård is the brother of True Blood and Big Little Lies star Alexander, and his big bro couldn't help trolling little Pennywise at the film's Hollywood premiere.
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Chapter Two finds the adult Losers Club, played by some familiar faces, returning to their hometown to face down the evil Pennywise clown once and for all.
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The adaptation stars Bill Skarsgard (little brother to Big Little Lies Emmy-winner Alexander Skarsgard) as Pennywise, and is directed by Andy Muschietti, best known for Mama.
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In the film, which takes place 27 years after the original, Pennywise comes back to haunt the members of the Losers' Club, who are all grown up.
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"There's a big risk that investors could be pennywise, pound foolish," Ben Johnson, director of global ETF research at Morningstar, said on CNBC's "ETF Edge " on Monday.
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Pennywise — the terrifying clown that haunts the protagonists of "It"— has emerged as one of the season's most popular costumes, according to a recent survey by Fandango.
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This is a franchise that never set up the rules so what Pennywise can and cannot do, and how to defeat him never makes any logical sense.
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In a scene where Bill runs through a fairground funhouse, the swinging clowns he runs past are dressed up just like Tim Curry's 1990 version of Pennywise.
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When Stephen King wrote the character of Pennywise the clown back in the eighties, he probably hoped it would strike fear into the heart of his audience.
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Anatomy of a Scene The creepy clown Pennywise doesn't appear in this scene from the latest adaptation of Stephen King's novel, but it's an unnerving sequence nonetheless.
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It's only once they reunite once more that it all starts to come back, and they band together to rid Derry of Pennywise once and for all.
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They also forget what happened between them and Pennywise that one summer — except for Mike (Isaiah Mustafa), who's stayed behind in Derry and is the new librarian.
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As the only member of the group who stuck around, he's developed an obsession with finding ways to defeat Pennywise in the event that the clown reappears.
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Mr. Skarsgard, best known for playing Pennywise the Dancing Clown in last year's "It," is joined in the cast by the original King star, Sissy Spacek ("Carrie").
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It also indicates that director Andrés Muschietti (Mama) has kept the kids of the Losers' Club as the focus of his adaptation, rather than the upstaging Pennywise.
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The boyishly handsome Skarsgard, son of acclaimed actor Stellan, and younger brother to fellow actors Gustav and Alexander, is unrecognizable as Stephen King's Pennywise the Dancing Clown from his 1987 novel It. In the book, which gained further popularity after it was adapted into a 1990 TV series starring Tim Curry, Pennywise is an otherworldly force of evil that feeds on children in the fictional town of Derry, Maine.
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As a side note, the Pennywise incarnation of It has gotten much weirder since the Losers saw him in 1958, and he really doesn't go for subtlety anymore.
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Based on the 1986 Stephen King novel of the same name, "It" tells the story of group of children who are terrorized by an evil clown named Pennywise.
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The remake of Stephen King's It is already scaring viewers with super-creepy previews and eerie photos of Pennywise, the not-so-friendly clown played by Bill Skarsgard.
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Pennywise may be scary-as-hell, but that doesn't mean that every clown is out for blood; some are content just painting kids' faces and making balloon giraffes.
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As in the novel, Mike's father tells his son about his own encounter with Pennywise, making him the only adult to comprehend what's really going on in Derry.
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While watching the remake of Stephen King's It, you'll be too busy physically jumping out of your seat to consider the origins of Pennywise the Clown (Bill Skarsgård).
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With the big night only a month away, we're eager to lock down a killer costume ASAP, and let's face it: Pennywise is (still) this year's Harley Quinn.
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The IT movie was pretty faithful to Stephen King's novel, but there was one thing they didn't really cover: the origins of everyone's favourite serial killer clown, Pennywise.
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The cast is already out of Twitter's dreams – including Bill Hader as Richie and Jessica Chastain as Beverly – with Bill Skarsgård reprising his role as voracious demon Pennywise.
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Now is certainly not the time to be pennywise and pound foolish, especially when vulnerable youth and their families rely on these critical resources to survive and thrive.
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For those less familiar with the story, the red balloon is used as a repeating symbol that lets victims of Pennywise the Dancing Clown know they're being watched.
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The story centers on a group of children, The Losers Club, who seemingly defeat Pennywise after a series of horrors take place in their hometown of Derry, Maine.
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But King's epic novel doesn't stop there, so It: Chapter Two covers the rest of King's plot — in which the Losers have to face down Pennywise in adulthood.
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This is a world where Pennywise and Monster Magnet can reside peacefully in the same record collection without simultaneously combusting, the American shopping mall Sam Goody location dream.
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Naturally, fans across the country—including a band of actual, terrifying clowns—are gearing up to go see Pennywise scare the shit out of a bunch of tweens.
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It is he who realizes Pennywise (Bill Skårsgard) has resurfaced, and calls the Losers back home to make good on their childhood promise to end this ancient evil.
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Or the following year when everyone weaponized that dark animus by forcefully and collectively declaring their ardor for Bill Skarsgard's portrayal of Pennywise in the rebooted "It" movie?
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Because Pennywise preys not just on humans but on fear itself, the Losers were able to combine their imaginations to defeat him — as chronicled in It: Chapter One.
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An ad at Halloween time featured a scary version of Ronald McDonald made up to resemble Pennywise from the horror movie It, based on the Stephen King book.
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Maybe if Pennywise tried to lure Georgie down into the sewer with the promise of a ball pit and a Happy Meal, BK Russia might have a case.
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The film's first death occurs in its opening sequence, as a horrifying clown calling himself Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) lures a little boy named Georgie Denbrough into a fatal trap.
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One by one, their group — plus token girl Beverly (Sophia Lillis) and token black kid Mike (Chosen Jacobs) — encounters Pennywise in different monstrous forms tailored to their personal fears.
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Muschietti is already planning a sequel — the second half of King's book, heavily foreshadowed in this film, where the scattered Losers return to Derry to face Pennywise as adults.
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Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent: The adults in town can't see Pennywise, neither can they see the non-supernatural terrors that stalk them just as ferociously: bullying, racism, sexual abuse.
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Bands like Rancid, Pennywise, and Sublime were instrumental in developing my musical taste throughout my teen years, which would extend into adulthood, and therein my career writing about music.
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If you want to pull off a last-minute Pennywise costume this year without buying a plastic-ish get-up that comes in a bag, here's what you'll need.
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We got the "IT" clown himself at LAX Thursday and asked him how playing Pennywise has affected his life outside of Hollywood ... specifically his interactions with kids and chicks.
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In "It", the protagonists are dealing with homophobia, racism, sexual abuse and anti-Semitism before Pennywise the Dancing Clown emerges from the sewers and begins ripping limbs off children.
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"I think the biggest difference between Pennywise and the Joker character — or at least Heath Ledger's interpretation — is that he's far more based in reality," Skarsgard, 27, tells PEOPLE.
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The first It was creepy, but quickly got repetitive, as Pennywise attacked each of the kids in turn, first on their own, then in groups as they banded together.
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This season, with her horrifying Pennywise the Clown haircut (the result of Piscatella brutally pulling out her hair), Red's best, and most self destructive, qualities are on full display.
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If I had to guess, I'd say they may decide to go heavy on Pennywise and cut back on some of It's other forms (maybe the werewolf, for instance).
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Pennywise the clown from Stephen King's "It" is this shaping up to be this year's most popular Halloween costume, and an Oklahoma couple has already set a high bar.
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For celebrities like "It: Chapter Two" star Bill Skarsgard (who plays Pennywise) and Marvel's Karen Gillan (Nebula), the physical transformation processes can take anywhere between two and five hours.
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The complexities of human desire are a dense and tangled web, and besides, Venom and Pennywise and the Grinch are all fictional characters, so the fantasies are just fantasies.
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LeBron got really into his IT themed get up, pulling off a Pennywise outfit to perfection, complete with incredible makeup, hair, white gloves, and those creepy-ass red balloons.
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Bill Skarsgård, who's been perfecting that fucked-up smile since he was a kid, truly spins an unforgettable Pennywise — if he's not onscreen, you dread when he will be.
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Years after the Losers Club first fought Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) in the sewer, they have regrouped in IT Chapter Two to finish the dancing clown once and for all.
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Dustin May's fastball is scary as hell ... but his costume at the Dodgers' dress-up party on Thursday was even more terrifying -- 'cause he made for an UNREAL Pennywise!!!
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So, while plenty of people would run away in abject terror if they happened upon Pennywise, there are people who would gladly descend right into the sewer with him, too.
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The owner of the Tumblr is a 25-year old from Hawaii we'll call Sarah, and she says she started developing sexual feelings for Pennywise shortly after leaving the theater.
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However, for the masses swarming the box office to watch Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) in action, there's one scene from King's original novel that you won't see on the big screen.
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Stephen King's It, which arrived in theaters Friday, features a demonic entity named "It" that feasts on the fears of children and takes the form of a clown named Pennywise.
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For instance, what most people remember about It (apart from that orgy) is its most conventional scene of horror: the opening, when Georgie Denbrough meets Pennywise in a storm drain.
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The novel depicts a brutal hate crime in which Adrian Mellon, a gay man, is beaten nearly to death by a group of teens; Pennywise arrives to finish him off.
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In the first adaptation, fans watch as the 1989 Loser's Club encounters, and later fights to overcome, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, who makes an appearance in town every 27 years.
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The follow-up film will tell the story of the Losers Club returning to their hometown of Derry, Maine, as adults to do battle with Pennywise the Dancing Clown again.
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Badison — real name: Madison Murphy — is played by Amanda Fuller, and is the kind of character who, like Pennywise the Clown, may show up in your dreams to torment you.
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The film has inspired a world of Pennywise-adjacent memes, including one in which the terrifying clown dances to "Shake It Off," which is guaranteed to haunt Swifties' dreams forever.
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This week's episode of SNL turned Kellyanne Conway into Conway-wise, a riff on Pennywise, the sewer-dwelling clown monster from It. You never know where Kellyanne could be lurking.
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They add that Bob's run-in with Mr. Baldo happens in his dreams and that in It, the Losers' Club all seem to mysteriously forget about their encounters with Pennywise.
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Part of me kept waiting for a voice-over from Richard Dreyfuss: "And that was the best summer of my life…" Less successful are the sections that trot out Pennywise.
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After getting an up-close look at the killer clown Pennywise, fans swiftly took to social media to express just how terrified they were throughout the 2:32-minute trailer.
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The brand-new film adaptation of Stephen King's It has finally dropped a trailer, and Pennywise the Dancing Clown is hardly as creepily whimsical as he was in 1990 miniseries.
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From Rosie the Riveter and escaped Area 51 aliens to the Headless Horseman and Pennywise from the movie "It," there are tons of great costumes to choose from this year.
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It, which became the highest-grossing horror film of all time and revitalized the villain Pennywise for the meme generation, probably should've garnered a nomination for its composer Benjamin Wallfisch.
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Instead of emphasizing jump scares, there's a more gradual sense of all-encompassing fear — it really conveys the idea that Pennywise is an element that pervades the town of Derry.
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In addition to Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard) itself, there's also Henry Bowers (now played by Teach Grant), the perfectly human, but still terrifying, bully who tormented the Losers' Club as kids.
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From his sewer home base to his floaty words of warning and even his less-than-savory demeanor, everything about Pennywise seems to draw some attraction to one person or another.
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Chapter Two will focus on members of the Losers' Club 226 years later as they've grown into troubled adults and they have to fight Pennywise once again, this time for good.
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These movies (along with several miniseries) are what introduced so many of us to King's world and helped turn his creations into pop culture icons: Carrie White, Jack Torrance, Pennywise, Cujo.
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This is the man who gave us Jack Torrance in The Shining, Pennywise in It, the rabid Saint Bernard in Cujo, and the titular telepathic teen in his first novel, Carrie.
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His younger brother, Bill, hit it big playing Pennywise in IT. In April 2018, Gustaf is made his debut in Season 2 of Westworld (along with one of the Hemsworth brothers).
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"It" takes on a number of forms during the first and second installments of the franchise, but the most iconic is his turn as Pennywise the Clown, played by Bill Skarsgard.
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Originally appears in: IT Also appears in*: The Tommyknockers and Dreamcatcher *Okay, so Pennywise doesn't necessarily appear in The Tommyknockers (there's some confusion around this), and he's only referenced in Dreamcatcher.
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Originally appears in: The Stand Also appears in: The Eyes of the Dragon and The Dark Tower series Anyone who thinks Pennywise is the biggest Stephen King villain is sorely mistaken.
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Never mind that to get a 12 year-old into The Descendents, somebody's first gotta send you a Pennywise song on the radio or whatevs: Anything Vaguely Pop-Punk Is Bad.
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As well as being an accomplished adaptation, it is also great fun, providing ample scares and a thoroughly chilling incarnation of Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard, who will also star in "Castle Rock").
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She was in awe of working alongside Skarsgard, the Swedish actor who frightened audiences across America as demonic clown Pennywise in 2017's "It," which was based on King's 1986 novel.
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"I mean, it was kind of mind-blowing to see him play Pennywise after having spent seven months getting to know him," Lynskey said of watching "It" after "Castle Rock" wrapped.
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Based on the 1986 Stephen King novel of the same name, the first "It" told the story of a group of children who are terrorized by an evil clown named Pennywise.
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Even the mostly good 1990 "It" miniseries, which featured Tim Curry as Pennywise, fell apart in its final few acts -- a recurring issue that's been fairly common across movies and television.
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Its favorite look seems to be Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgård), but it might also take the form of a leper, or a burning body, or a fountain of blood.
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The sequel takes place 27 years after the first movie with the Losers' Club all grown up and reuniting to take down Pennywise the Clown when he resurfaces in Derry, Maine.
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"I've gotten a bunch of fun merch and stuff throughout the years, so her baby room is filled with all these Pennywise teddy bears," the 29-year-old Swedish actor said.
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The opening scene of IT Chapter Two may be the horror franchise's most disturbing — and so little of it is due to the presence of Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
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"Saturday Night Live" took a jab at White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway this week, comparing her to "IT" villain Pennywise trying to lure CNN anchor Anderson Cooper into the sewer.
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The superhero will compete for Best Movie and Best On-Screen Team against the horror hit It, which floated its way to four noms, also including, naturally, Best Villain — Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise.
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LeBron's a nightmare to opponents on the court ... but he was even more frightening at the Cavs Halloween party, 'cause the King's Pennywise costume is sure to keep you up at night.
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Muschietti is directing the sequel to It, titled It: Chapter Two, which will star James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader and Bill Skarsgård, who is reprising his role as Pennywise the Clown.
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Pennywise is the most famous part of It. And he's suitably creepy in Muschietti's film, menacing and enigmatic enough to satisfy even the most die-hard It fans and Tim Curry loyalists.
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However, it's not just Pennywise you need to worry about in the movie: What Skårsgard is really portraying is an evil supernatural entity capable of transforming into anything one is afraid of.
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The nods to King lore even extend beyond the fourth wall: Sissy Spacek, the star of Carrie, holds a key role; so does Bill Skarsgård, the Pennywise of 2017's It adaptation.
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I spent a portion of my life playing Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX, and owe my discovery of bands such as Pennywise, Sublime and Deftones to the game, as well as countless others.
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"The Pennywise stuff was always jokes, but the attraction to Venom as a concept is much more real," says a Twitter user named Alex, who herself has an avowed crush on Venom.
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With an uptick of clown fetishism (and police warnings) following in the wake of the film, it's safe to say that Pennywise has left a deep, dark imprint on our cultural landscape.
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People of the internet have basically concluded that Pennywise, the clown from IT, is not only gay but dating another horror movie villain, the Babadook who is known as a gay icon.
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For you and your Pennywise-lovin' pals to qualify as "clowns" for the evening, slap on some makeup, a wig, a costume, a foam nose, some oversized shoes, or any combination therein.
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Pennywise the Clown is back in town -- meaning another freaky 'IT' pop-up has returned to L.A. -- which TMZ got to check out ... and now, with our help, you can float too!!!
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When they were children, the evils the Losers faced were embedded within the town; now, in order to defeat Pennywise, the adults will all have to individually overcome their own personal demons.
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Although the clown, Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård), is corny and silly—his theme tune is "Oranges and Lemons" and he does a stupid dance—the pain enacted upon these children feels very real.
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Still, that tiny glimpse of Pennywise is just enough to make uninitiated viewers want to know what they just saw, while hinting to "It" fans what they're about to see more of.
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The adult Losers are trapped in familiar cycles, like Bev's marriage to an abusive man or Eddie's (James Ransone) to a woman just like his mother, even before Pennywise enters the picture.
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Pennywise is in fact very busy in this movie, crafting horrific sequences perfectly suited to each Losers' greatest weaknesses and then pulling out all the stops for the inevitable third-act showdown.
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The way the Losers defeat Pennywise also differs from the novel — they sort of bully him to death by calling him names over and over until he shrinks down to almost nothing.
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Pennywise, who sometimes takes the form of a giant spider-like monster, and whose pouty moue can suddenly sprout rows of sharp, brownish fangs, both feeds and feeds upon ordinary human viciousness.
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Starring Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, James Ransone, Jay Ryan, Andy Bean and Isaiah Mustafa, the group has to find a way to get rid of Pennywise once and for all.
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The plot of the movie revolves around the fact that after surviving Pennywise the Dancing Clown back in 1988, now, almost three decades later, the Losers Club reunites to fight him again.
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Viewers know that Pennywise is just a steaming hot Skarsgard brother in major makeup, but fans of AHS have to dig a little deeper to figure out who's under the masks on Cult.
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New Line denied any involvement but it certainly put the fear of clowns back on the front burner for kids and grown-up kids familiar with the original Pennywise played by Tim Curry.
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Predator to Pennywise the Clown in 2017's It. In 1993, they won a Best Special Effects Oscar for creating the animatronic versions of Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn in Death Becomes Her.
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Deadpool (Reynolds' own comic-book film)Neo ("The Matrix")Pennywise ("It")Jesus ("The Passion of the Christ")Hugh Jackman (the actor played Wolverine one last time in "Logan")The Wolfpack ("The Hangover")Mr.
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Production notes from the film revealed that 5000 gallons of fake blood were used for a scene where adult Beverly, played by Jessica Chastain, is forced via Pennywise to confront her childhood fears.
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On top of that, the Fiscal Year 2018 budget proposes to reduce the funds available for forest restoration by another $170 million to increase fire suppression accounts—a pennywise, but pound foolish, decision.
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Stephen King's 1986 book It, and the movie remake opening September 8th, follows seven childhood friends as they are terrorized by the evil clown Pennywise who preys on their deepest fears and insecurities.
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It's a nod to the iconic red balloon that Pennywise the clown holds the first film, but in this case, the two red balloons signify it is the second installment in the franchise.
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If Bill Skarsgård has to play a young Steve Buscemi in something and can't return as Pennywise in the rumoured IT prequel, may we suggest Stephen Colbert at least gets an audition slot?
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"I'm concerned that these successive budget cuts may be pennywise and pound foolish when it comes to the agency's cybersecurity efforts and the agency's ability to protect American taxpayers' information online," Carper said.
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Mime, a humanoid pokémon modeled after a clown, in "Detective Pikachu") to the exhausting (yet another movie featuring Batman's green-haired nemesis, the Joker) to the nightmare inducing (Pennywise in "It Chapter Two").
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I feel like I've done what I can with the incarnation of Pennywise as we know of him, so I think it would be a cool idea to change up a few things.
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What made Chapter One so successful was that it was obvious how, as teens, the Losers' deep love for each other helped them overcome all these obstacles, as a precursor to overcoming Pennywise.
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The Pennywise Confessions Tumblr is the epicenter of a radical new genre of projected kink—a chance to find solidarity in the fellow men and women lusting over a horrible, no-good murder clown.
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The 1990 Pennywise (played by Tim Curry) had a disarmingly comic edge that contrasted with his abrupt shifts to horror (his teeth would turn into fangs and he'd let out this nasty growling sound).
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Now it's Bill Skarsgård's turn to put his own stamp on Pennywise, the ultimate creepy clown, for a new generation – and the buzz is that he'll do just fine keeping you up at night.
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Bill Skarsgard plays Pennywise, the demonic clown manifested by It. FROM COINAGE: The Top 5 Most Expensive Movies of All Time King's novel was originally published in 1986 and previously inspired a 13 miniseries.
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It was an obvious connection, considering that Castle Rock is a Stephen King adaptation like 2017's It, where Skarsgård played Pennywise/It, a child-munching entity in the shape of a dancing clown.
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This is the kind of spooky, damp place the Loser's Club in It would have faced down Pennywise, not the kind of place you'd want to live in for an undisclosed period of time.
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As It became one of the highest grossing horror movies, red balloons, a signature of villain Pennywise the clown, were popping up all over the place to spook the living hell out of us.
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The 27-year-old Swedish actor stars as neighbourhood killer clown Pennywise in the new adaptation of Stephen King's novel It. He showed off his killer smile on Conan on Tuesday, without the makeup.
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The 27-year-old actor, who plays terrifying clown Pennywise in the new movie It, walked the carpet at the Hollywood premiere Tuesday with his older brothers Alexander, 41, and Gustaf, 36, in tow.
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Some Canadian clowns painted on frowny faces Thursday in response to the soon-to-be released remake of IT, protesting the film's main attraction: Pennywise, a child-eating clown who's creepy as all hell.
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One of the first proper glimpses we get of Pennywise takes place after Ben Hanscom — a key member of The Losers' Club — walks home on his own after staying late one day at school.
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Everything about this sequence — the slow build-up; the creepy description of Pennywise; the final dash for freedom after the Derry Town Hall's five o'clock whistle beaks Ben's trance — is spectacularly eerie and tense.
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Let's uncover our eyes and look ahead... For starters, despite the sequel taking place in the present day — 27 years after defeating Pennywise — the prodigious young cast won't be entirely out of the picture.
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He seemed happy to oblige, but took it upon himself to add a little something sinister after the fact: Nobody asked for it, but McLaren added Pennywise to the background of every single shot.
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Where the first trailer emphasized a nightmarish return home, the second one emphasizes Bill Skarsgard's unsettling grin as Pennywise, the evil shape-shifting clown who haunts Stephen King's deceptively bucolic town of Derry, Maine.
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The Pennywise actor sat down for an interview with Entertainment Weekly recently to talk about the new film and how, exactly, he'd like to bring everybody's least favorite clown back to the big screen.
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But while Curry's iconic performance overshadowed everything that was mediocre about the 1990 miniseries, Skarsgård's Pennywise and the many traditional horror scares he engenders aren't remotely the most interesting parts of this layered, knowing film.
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In the movie, though, Mr. Marsh isn't possessed by It. He's just motivated by a regular, human evil, the kind that will stick around even after if the kids vanquish Pennywise the Clown's supernatural threat.
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The scariest character in It isn't a supernatural demon which emerges every 27 years, because, no matter how vivid the CGI effects are or how growly Skarsgard's voice is, Pennywise the Clown is not real.
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If the answer to that question is "clowns," then you probably aren't planning on seeing the new adaptation of Stephen King's It, which stars Bill Skårsgard as the iconic (and downright terrifying) Pennywise the Clown.
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One of its forms is Pennywise the Dancing Clown (played by Bill Skarsgård) who turns up in a storm drain one rainy day to lure a little boy named Georgie Denbrough to his horrible demise.
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If you're going to swallow some difficult content, you might as well do it in the company of folks who feel your pain—or, God forbid—cheer Pennywise on alongside your evil, terrifying clown brethren.
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Apart from one mostly unscary moment involving McAvoy's Bill trapped in a circus maze of mirrors, the new trailer doesn't do much more than display the cast's fear alongside glimpses of the ever-demented Pennywise.
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With the specter of the sadistic Pennywise the Clown (played by Bill Skarsgård) still looming over the town of Derry, the gang must re-team to banish the demon they first faced 27 years earlier.
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It all starts off sweetly enough — one little boy talks about eating chocolate when he's asleep, for instance — but things take a turn for the sinister when another kid talks about seeing Pennywise the Clown.
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The final fight between us and Pennywise was scary, just because we did days of rehearsal for that and we were actually beating up Bill [Skarsgård], which was empowering but at the same time freaky.
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The Pennsylvania police advised anyone who happens to spot a Pennywise wannabe lurking in the woods or hovering under a streetlight or whatever to call the state's terrorism tip line, which is great for Pennsylvanians.
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As played this year by Bill Skarsgard, Pennywise inflicted enormous damage on the box office — but don't sleep on the original portrayal in this two-part mini-series, courtesy of a lip-smacking Tim Curry.
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Apparently all you need is some helium and red balloons to scare the shit out of locals, who immediately recognised the floating doom indicators as the mark of homicidal (yet fictional — absolutely, thankfully fictional) clown Pennywise.
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The events of It kick off when Bill's little brother Georgie has a shudder-inducing run-in with Pennywise the Clown (Bill Skarsgård), the shapeshifting form of fear itself that terrorizes and ultimately devours Derry's children.
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Now, we see Beverly, Bill (James McAvoy), Mike (Isaiah Mustafa), Richie (Bill Hader), Ben (Jay Ryan), and Eddie (James Ransone) all remaining faithful to their vow and returning to fight Pennywise — hopefully for the last time.
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While Bill (James McAvoy), Eddie (James Ransone), Richie (Bill Hader), Stanley (Andy Bean) Beverly (Jessica Chastain), Ben (Jay Ryan), and Mike (Isaiah Mustafa) are 27 years older in Chapter Two, Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) stays the same.
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Police in North Carolina have over the past week also reported a wave of sightings, suggesting a slow migration in the direction of the fictional town of Derry, Maine, where King's Pennywise carried out his rampage.
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Actor Bill Skarsgard, who's playing scary clown Pennywise, explained in an interview with his brother, Alexander, that the clown costume was so scary that the child actors on set were almost too creeped out to work.
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Stephen King's It is no slouch of a novel; at 1,138 pages, it takes its time with the horrific story of what happened in Derry, Maine to a group of kids haunted by the murderous Pennywise.
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But seeing as how Pennywise the Dancing Clown had been wreaking havoc on Derry every three decades or so long before the Losers Club went to war with him, there's easily the possibility of a prequel.
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Like a diabolical cicada, Pennywise the Clown — or rather the supernatural force whose principal avatar he is — has emerged from a period of dormancy, bringing his wheedling, lethal psychological manipulation to a new generation of victims.
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Bill Skarsgård, who plays Pennywise the Clown in the upcoming film adaptation of Stephen King's It, is a 26-year-old cutie... and just so happens to be a relative of a certain Big Little Lies star.
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The new trailer features more screen time with the grown-up members of the Losers Club as they return to Derry, Maine, 27 years after they defeated Pennywise the Clown (Bill Skarsgård) from his reign of terror.
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Alexander Skarsgård, of course, most recently graced our screens in Big Little Lies, and Bill Skarsgård just gave us all nightmares as Pennywise the murderous clown in IT. Yes, we're still hiding under the blanket from that.
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Not only does Pennywise appear more humanlike in the scene — Fukunaga describes Pennywise's skin as "pale and translucent" — but, in the original version, he also makes a terrible deal with one of the mothers in the town.
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When the victim's older brother gets wind of what Pennywise has been up to all these years, he bands together with a group of tweens dedicated to driving the clown from their neighborhood once and for all.
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The filming of the final showdown between the adult Losers and Pennywise definitely required some coordination, as production notes reveal that the actors had to deal with dark water that was four and a half feet deep.
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The axe-wielding, novel-reading nurse may even be scarier than Pennywise, King's famous shape-shifting, time-traveling force of evil in IT. As opposed to King's supernatural villains, the terror of Annie lies in her humanity.
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There Pennywise, a supernatural demon clown, lurks underground and lures Georgie to a gory fate that kicks off a chain of deaths for the town's teenagers and strange visions among the seven members of the Loser's Club.
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It also ruffled feathers with the bands it booked, particularly as the rise of "mall punk" and emo put bands like Good Charlotte, Blink-182, and My Chemical Romance alongside punk mainstays like Rancid, Pennywise, and Bad Religion.
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The kids defeat Pennywise in It, and think they're done with their shared story, but in Chapter Two, set 27 years later, they learn he's still alive, and they have to return to Derry to fight him again.
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You'd never want to arrive dressed as, like, Pennywise with all that terrifying makeup (just imagine the looks you'd get on your commute), but you also don't want to arrive looking exactly the same as you always do.
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Not only does it feature actors from previous King adaptations, like Skarsgård (Pennywise in the new It movies) and Sissy Spacek (Carrie in Carrie), it's also brimming with Easter eggs for fans of his other books and films.
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"Another described a dream involving Pennywise the clown: "He&aposs sitting on your head and eating candy and he&aposs eating a cat and he&aposs eating a dog and a duck and a fox and a person.
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This adaptation of Stephen King's "It" helped usher in a scary movie renaissance in 2017, driven in part by Bill Skarsgard's terrifying portrayal of Pennywise, a clown who stalks a group of youngsters in a small-town America.
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On the Funko website, there are currently 220 distinct figurines of TV host Conan O'Brien — you can get the comedian dressed as Jon Snow, an Armenian folk dancer, or Pennywise the clown, or even just painted entirely orange.
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I used to love Pennywise, is the thing: I was a child aficionado of horror movies, in general, and of IT, in particular; I flouted my parents' rules and snuck viewings of the original IT at friends' house.
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When Resident Evil 2 came out, the star of the show was the tall, terrifying, and lumbering Mr. X. People turned him into Pennywise from IT, Thomas the Tank Engine, and even deleted him from the game entirely.
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Other horrifying predators have lurked in the shadows, such as Pennywise the Clown in "It" and Voldemort, the "Dark Lord" and nemesis of Harry Potter (whose defining feature is a scar in the shape of a lightning bolt).
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Part one of It featured a few standout setpieces, and while none topped the film-opening sewer grate encounter between a little boy and Pennywise (played with shifty malevolence by Bill Skarsgard), the winning cast worked together beautifully.
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"Imagine Pennywise knowing you have a kink for body horror and fucks you with his rows of teeth shown, maybe sunk into your shoulder, and his claws ripping into the bed beneath you," reads another, posted the same day.
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That's because Muschietti understands that Pennywise, in all his Lovecraftian incomprehensibility, is only a symptom of the larger evil in King's mythos — the darkness that lurks in the hearts of power-hungry men and causes society's foundations to rot.
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The new trailer introduces us to the other "half" of King's famously sprawling novel, in which the adult members of the "Losers Club" begin to confront their pasts and terrifying childhoods battling Pennywise, the evil, murderous, shape-shifting clown.
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Future trailers will probably focus more on the Losers' Club and their heroic return home to fight with Pennywise, but this first teaser sets up the skin-crawling ambience that made Muschietti's It so successful in the first place.
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Here, though we never get a long look at the creature known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgård), we get a sense of the terror he brings to Derry, Maine, and the kids who're trying to stop him.
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Between the child trapped in the hall of mirrors, the insane amount of blood, Pennywise's reality-bending horror, and a look at Pennywise without all of his makeup, this trailer is really gearing up fans for quite the sequel.
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The first happens during that montage when the kids are swimming in the quarry; one of them dives underwater, and we hear someone shout: The second is the scene in which Bill encounters Pennywise/Georgie down in the basement.
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"F— yeah," Skarsgard previously revealed to PEOPLE of what he told his agent when first asked if he'd like to read for Pennywise, the demonic clown who feeds on children in the fictional New England town of Derry, Maine.
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Worst of all, it substitutes excess for suspense in a long middle section that finds one character after another having interchangeable encounters with Pennywise in which the self-proclaimed "eater of worlds" never appears to be a real threat.
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Less than a year after the clown sightings, a remake of the horror movie It came out, prompting a ton of memes of Pennywise in the sewer and dancing (and, of course, people wanting to fuck the It clown).
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It may lack the simplicity of Curry's performance, as the film around never aims for the quiet unsettling feeling the old TV adaptation achieved in some of its more effective moments, but it's hard to fault this new take on Pennywise.
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In a video full of chilling moments, the adult versions of The Losers Club are unveiled, with Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Andy Bean, Isaiah Mustafa and Jay Ryan returning to Derry after being haunted by Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) as children.
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Alongside It's most famous storyline — Pennywise abducting a string of children from an indifferent population — Muschietti steadily builds out the real-life terrors happening in Derry and the lengths our protagonists must go to in order to effectively combat them.
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The photo album scene from the book has been adapted into a legitimately horrifying moment in which a slide projector takes on a life of its own — but the tension is undone when a giant-sized Pennywise crawls through the screen.
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Deftly switching between the voice of Pennywise and Conway, McKinnon tries all her tricks to lure Cooper into the sewer eventually posing as Hillary Clinton offering a free copy of her book, What Happened, which proved to be Cooper's downfall.
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Director Andy Muschietti appeared to tap into an elemental need to exorcise the existential dread that has lurked within the headlines all year, and the film transformed Bill Skarsgård (aka Pennywise, the child-eating clown) into a highly problematic thirst trap.
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The full trailer is made up of a lot of footage we've seen before, mainly Pennywise the Clown luring a young boy into a storm drain and the classic vintage coming-of-age shot of pre-teens riding bikes around.
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After years away, a lawyer and onetime son of Castle Rock (André Holland) finds himself called back to investigate a matter at Shawshank Prison (!), where a young man (Bill Skarsgård, Pennywise in last year's It), has been discovered locked away.
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Tim Curry gave kids nightmares in the original adaptation It follows the lives of a group of friends known as the Losers' Club, who together face the evil "It" monster after it takes on the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
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Bill Skarsgård stars as Pennywise, the killer clown who's terrorized a small neighborhood in Maine for centuries, popping up in storm drains, hiding in sewers, and—right when our tale picks up—has recently claimed the life of a little kid.
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And, unfortunately, our protagonists have to venture back into the sewers—a place no one in a horror movie should ever go—where Pennywise is still doing his spooky evil clown thing, only now, he somehow seems even more terrifying.
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But it works eerily well, because the entire point of It: Chapter Two is that the work the Losers Club now has to do is all within their own heads — which are being perpetually manipulated and worked upon by Pennywise.
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Atlanta rapper T.I., who recently spoke with CNN's #GetPolitical about police brutality, shared the same Charlotesville meme, tweeting "Who da F--- made Pennywise the President???" in a reference to the horror reboot "It," along with a clown emoji representing its antagonist.
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Parents in Brisbane, Australia have filed complaints to Ad Standards over giant posters for Warner Bros.' upcoming horror tentpole "It Chapter Two," claiming the image of Pennywise the Clown is terrifying their young children and giving them nightmares (via LAD Bible).
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" Pennywise isn't the only villain in It. Henry Bowers and his greasy companion Patrick Hockstetter, the bullies who terrorized the Losers for much of the first film, met gruesome ends back in '89 â€" or at least, it would seem so.
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The first horror we witness in "Chapter Two" — a murderous homophobic attack during a carnival — is something Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard) exploits rather than perpetrates, and it serves as a reminder that the otherworldly cruelty he represents is not the only kind.
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The big thing about It Chapter Two is that it's supposed to take place 27 years after the events of the first IT because Pennywise the Dancing Clown loves to attack the poor town of Derry, Maine every 27 years.
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The critical and commercial success of the first film in 2017 -- drawn entirely from the portions of King's novel that follow the young incarnations encounters with the insidious Pennywise, reset from the 1950s to the 1980s -- provided new degrees of difficulty.
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The scene in "Chapter Two" where Pennywise bashes his head against the fun house wall, for example, was not in the book, but there wasn't a scene that gave you that kind of anxiety at that point in the story.
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But though Skarsgard does some great work as Pennywise, it's lost in all the grand special effects used to blow him up to the size of a large barn, or grant him enough legs to create a clown-spider hybrid.
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But of course, the biggest reveal, Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise, gets saved for the end, and even though we saw him in the last trailer, it's still a powerful moment, combining magical realism with a touch of the theatrical and the deranged.
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After IT was released in theaters, the blog appeared in the bowels of the internet as the go-to place to voice any and all prurience for Pennywise the Dancing Clown—that awful fucking monster at the center of Stephen King's IT universe.
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I've done some investigative digging on this performance and it turns out that it actually took place at a festival which also featured Orgy, Smash Mouth, Limp Bizkit, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Kid Rock, Pennywise, Moby, Blink-182, and Silverchair, among others.
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Last year might have included one of Pokorny's most creative (and terrifying) getups yet: Pennywise, from Stephen King's It. As the 2017 film had just been released, Jack's costume was inspired by Tim Curry's portrayal of the character in the 1990 miniseries.
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Bill Skarsgard was born in 1990, the same year Stephen King's novel It was adapted into a TV series starring Tim Curry — but even as a little kid, he remembers his older brothers teasing him with ghost stories about Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
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I'm never going to be able to erase Pennywise from my psyche (thank you Mr. King), and I was not first in line to buy a ticket to "Joker," but I've come back around to the clowns — at least, the silly kind.
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Beverly is not the damsel in distress in the Fukunaga-Palmer script; instead, she's an active agent who decides, along with her friends, to go down to It's lair and kill Pennywise before he can make any more adults do horrific things.
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Since the reboot of Stephen King's It hit theaters (and crushed box office records) earlier this month, it seems like all anyone can talk about is the creepiness that is that is Pennywise the clown, from his terrifying smile to his disturbing backstory.
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Re-creating the opening scene from Stephen King's film IT, the talented impressionist Kate McKinnon takes on the role of White House senior advisor Kellyanne Conway as SNL compares her to the nightmarish villain Pennywise attempting to lure Anderson Cooper into the sewer.
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The 10-episode first season will follow Henry Deaver (André Holland, who played adult Kevin in Moonlight) who returns home to Castle Rock to represent a Shawshank Prison inmate (Bill Skarsgård, aka Pennywise from It — I'm sobbing with fear at the thought).
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The reports have fueled speculation that the sightings could be a hoax, or possibly even morbid fans trying to promote the 2017 movie release of Stephen King's It, about an evil clown known as Pennywise that terrorized a group of young boys.
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In King's nearly 1,200-page book, Richie (who is played as an an adult by Bill Hader and a child by Finn Wolfhard) is chased by a giant Paul Bunyan statue, which is one of the manifestations of the evil, supernatural clown Pennywise.
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Twenty-seven years have passed since the events of the first movie; now all adults, the Losers have reunited in order to battle Pennywise one last time — and the trailer makes it clear that this fight will be a deeply psychological one.
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The movie worked because you believed Pennywise, played by Skarsgard with unholy relish, was somehow tied to the evils of small-town life — that he represented the rotting heart of America's drive for social conformity and penchant for repressing its worst secrets.
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The first teaser for "It Chapter Two" starts slowly, as Beverly Marsh (Jessica Chastain) revisits her childhood hometown, Derry, Me. That's where she and the rest of the so-called Losers Club were terrorized by the clown Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard) 27 years earlier.
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The movie's wide appeal — abetted by its recognizable villain (Bill Skarsgard's clown, Pennywise) and a "Stranger Things"-like formula, in which kids face supernatural mysteries in the 1980s — was a large factor in 2017 becoming the biggest box office year ever for horror.
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Pennywise), and without going too far into the metaphysics of the thing (or into spoiler territory), I can tell you that it requires each Loser to go off alone to delve into his or her own private guilt, shame, fear and desire.
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He emerges every 27 years to terrorize the town of Derry, Maine and while you think this kind of murder-spree would get written down in a datebook, for some reason the adult Losers can't remember what Pennywise did to them as kids.
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In a letter Stanley's widow Patricia Uris sent to the group after the Losers defeat Pennywise as adults, Stanley explains that he knew he wouldn't be brave enough to face "It" — so he made a choice that would confirm he never had to.
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Stephen King's It centers on an ancient evil that lurks in the cavernous sewers beneath the town of Derry, Maine: a shapeshifting being whose resting form is that of Pennywise the clown (played in Muschietti's films by the ever-menacing Bill Skarsgård).
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While the terrifying creature mostly appears in the form of a clown, Pennywise technically has the ability to shapeshift, which is why the Derry kids see it as a leper, vulture, a Paul Bunyan statue, a mummy, a winking photograph, and many more horrifying iterations.
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Roth, whom you may remember from his role as "The Bear Jew" in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, is also the person behind decidedly not family-friendly horror films like the Hostel franchise, the controversial Green Inferno, and the makes-Pennywise-look-benign film Clown.
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There's also a giant turtle creature in the Macroverse named Maturin, who helps the Losers Club defeat Pennywise once and for all during some kind of psychic battle called the Ritual of Chüd, and—uhh, yeah, shit is going to get weird in part two.
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Ellen has been killing the Halloween talk show game since last week, when she decided to scare some of her guests with a surprise appearance by Pennywise, the clown from the Stephen King horror story IT. One such unlucky visitor was Sean "Diddy" Combs.
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Bill Skarsgård stars as Pennywise, a killer clown who—for the uninitiated—has been picking off residents of a small town in Maine for centuries, prompting a gang of freaked-out tweens to track him down after he slays one of their younger brothers.
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Yet another drew them as characters from Blade Runner 2049, and another as Pennywise from IT. For their part, Futagogo wrote a novel-length fan fiction about the depraved sexual exploits of the rich and powerful Ricks and Mortys of the Citadel of Ricks.
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King's nearly 1,200-page novel follows the Losers Club, a group of kids in the town of Derry, Maine, who are hunted by an evil, supernatural being called Pennywise (played once again by Bill Skarsgard), who haunts them in the form of a clown.
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"It Chapter Two" star Bill Skarsgard appeared on CBS' "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" on Monday and said that his 11-month-old daughter's room is decorated with items inspired by the Pennywise, the killer clown he plays in the hit horror movies.
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Much like the clown jack-in-the-box Pennywise uses to scare one of the Losers in the final act of the movie, there are several keys to making the whole thing tick—and the film's music and sound design rank high among them.
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Skarsgard plays the demonic Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the recent film adaptation of King's epic "It," while in "Castle Rock" he plays a mysterious stranger with no name, whom Shawshank's former warden Dale Lacy locked away because he was convinced the boy was evil.
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According to Hollywood Reporter, the Russian arm of Burger King filed a complaint last week with the Russian anti-monopoly board, arguing that Pennywise—IT's evil, child-slaughtering clown demon from another dimension—is an "exact copy" of burger-shilling clown mascot Ronald McDonald.
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WATCH: Marcus Samuelsson's Chicken Liver Mousse Doughnuts Are Totally Bizarre and Totally Delicious Trista Patterson, owner of a Hurts location in Wichita, Kansas, told The Wichita Eagle that the clown is intended to resemble a general terrifying Halloween clown, rather than a recreation of King's Pennywise character.
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That includes the biggest scene stealers (where the nominees range from Tiffany Haddish and her grapefruit in Girl's Trip to Dacre Montgomery as the new bad boy in Stranger Things) and best villain (which hilariously slots Adam Driver as Kylo Ren against Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise).
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Until then, Pennywise has been keeping busy by popping up in other unexpected places: In addition to raking it in at the box office with $650 million in ticket sales worldwide, the newly minted superstar has been headlining sexual fantasies and dancing to Taylor Swift hits.
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Stephen Colbert's 'Pennywise smile' might be more terrifying than Bill Skarsgård's This video of a truck ending up on top of a house is wild Trevor Noah gleefully weighs in on Trump's beef with Chrissy Teigen Chelsea Handler talks about facing up to her own white privilege
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Ashton Kutcher holds Adele entirely responsible for his new mustache This video of a truck ending up on top of a house is wild Jason Momoa navigates the blind world of 'See' in Apple TV+ trailer Stephen Colbert's 'Pennywise smile' might be more terrifying than Bill Skarsgård's
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This traumatic backstory is important, because what makes It so threatening isn't limited to the supernatural; Pennywise is able to exploit the Losers' vulnerabilities and fears because they're the kind that don't dissipate with age, the kind that are often sociocultural: racism, homophobia, misogyny, and domestic abuse.
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But all seven of the central children are well-cast and give strong performances, and seen through their eyes, Pennywise seems like a real threat — a childhood nightmare improbably manifested in the real world — instead of like the faintly goofy, try-hard boogeyman he could so easily be.
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The Tumblr account Your Darkest Desires (NSFW and trigger warnings, so click at your own risk) offers up a safe space for fans of Pennywise to express their desires, whether they lean sexual — sometimes explicitly so — or are more about a sort of sewer-bound companionship, they're all there.
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A search for "I want to fuck Pennywise" on Twitter and Google reveals a gristly debate between people who are extremely down for some phantasmagoric clown-boning, and others who consider the thought to be the final failures of a civilization too far gone on memes and cynicism.
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Let's get this out of the way first: Pennywise the Clown, played by Bill Skarsgård with a jaunty ferocity, is absolutely terrifying in the adaptation of Stephen King's It. At one point, my seat companion involuntarily emitted a shriek, and I flew a few inches out of my seat.
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This time around, Pennywise (the dreadful clown that haunts a new group of misfits boys, including Stranger Things' Finn Wolfard) will be played the 26-year-old actor Bill Skarsgård (who is definitely not scary in real life, despite also appearing in the creepy Netflix series, Hemlock Grove).
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On the show, the ladies channeled other iconic characters from King's books, with Hostin as Pennywise from It, Huntsman as Carrie, the bloodied teen who raised hell on prom night, McCain and Behar as the Grady sisters from The Shining, and Goldberg as Church, the cat from Pet Sematary.
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Starring Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Jay Ryan, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, James Ransone, and Andy Bean as the grown-up Losers Club with Bill Skarsgård reprising his role as Pennywise, this next stop in the never-ending, cyclical nightmare that is Derry already has two very promising accolades.
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IT, the new horror blockbuster that enraged hardworking clowns everywhere and gave the red balloon its biggest PR bump since that old French movie, officially has a sequel release date—but you're going to have to wait a little while before you can watch Pennywise terrorize Derry again.
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One alumni from the program is MagicView, which is looking to transform urban mobility with ideas including rideshare and parking solutions to PennyWise, a ticketing system which enables transport users to hop on and off public transport without needing to "check in or check out" of their trip.
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Police in Lilitz, Pennsylvania were less than pleased to find a local prankster "promoting" the upcoming release of Stephen King's novel turned horror flick, IT. In the film, Pennywise the clown lurks around a small Maine town's sewers, snatching children, and leaving red balloons tied to sewer grates.
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It's long been established that the internet loves daydreaming about fucking human-ish evildoers like Venom and Pennywise, the clown from IT. Since it's the holidays, the horny online masses are taking a break from supernatural murderers and instead fixating on the furry green ass cheeks of the Grinch.
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Red balloons are floating and our stomachs are sinking with the new trailer for Stephen King's It. Released on Thursday, the trailer gives a terrifying look at what Bill Skarsgard's Pennywise has in store for the children of Derry, Maine, in the upcoming remake based on the horror maestro's 20173 novel.
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Directed by Andres Muschietti (2013's Mama), the film shifts the time period from King's original 1950s setting to the 1980s, and a planned second movie would pick up the story in the present day, with the (surviving) grown-up Losers returning to Derry to confront Pennywise one last time.
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The new film looks like it may have a similar dynamic, with the adult version of the self-described Losers' Club (now played by James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, and Isaiah Mustafa) facing off against Pennywise in isolated settings before the final throwdown.
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On Tuesday police in Lilitz, Pennsylvania, shared a couple photos to their Facebook page of red balloons that were tied to sewer grates across their small town â€" a signature move from Pennywise, the clown in It. The cops politely requested that the prank be stopped, admitting they were "completely terrified.
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We've got about a week to go until the premiere of IT, the latest adaptation of Stephen King's 1984 horror novel chronicling the evildoings of Pennywise the clown, who hides out in sewers, murders little kids, and generally scares the shit out of a bunch of tweens in small-town Maine.
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Lilly Singh's feminist music video slays late night stereotypes on the first 'A Little Late' Watch David Hasselhoff de-age in this incredible deepfake Seth Meyers slams Trump's latest lies about everything from hurricanes to Iran Stephen King, James McAvoy and Bill Skarsgård cure your Pennywise phobia with reassuring clown facts
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My personal favorite was Diddy, who dressed as Pennywise from "It" dancing in a Diddy video: Although a colleague who shall remain nameless recently told me that liking Carly Rae Jepsen is not a personality, I am still here to tell you the Canadian pop star released a new song today.
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GINA VOLPE OF LUNACHICKS The drummer for NOFX had broken his thumb right before one of their sets, so they had drummers from eight bands come and play two songs for their set — Pennywise and Green Day and Papa Roach, and our drummer, Helen [Destroy], who at the time was 230.
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But Muschietti mines their memory loss for horror, to a degree that Chapter Two starts to lag; some scenes, like Beverly's terrifying tea with Pennywise during a visit to her childhood home and Richie's subtext-laden encounter with a giant killer Paul Bunyan, last too long and carry no dramatic weight.
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Cookie Monster spells out 'subpoena,' hilariously sums up Trump impeachment inquiry Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren are together at last in thrilling 'The Good Liar' trailer Colbert roasts Trump's on-camera call for Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden Joker and Pennywise aren't welcome with regular clowns in James Corden sketch
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A year after running from a Demogorgon in Stranger Things, Finn Wolfhard was cast to run away from Pennywise the Clown in the 2017 blockbuster It. Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown also made the transition from monster-themed show to monster-themed theatrical feature, appearing in Godzilla: King of the Monsters in 2019.
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McKinnon does an excellent impression of both Kellyanne Conway and Pennywise the clown while the direction expertly recreates this terrifying scene from It. Growing up in Wakanda, T'Challa barely met any white people until that whole Avengers thing, but he picked up on white nonsense pretty quickly during a game of Black Jeopardy.
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Gal Gadot taking shots at Daniel Day-Lewis… Practically every Chris in Hollywood uniting in harmony… Pennywise the clown in braces… Michael Fassbender lamenting The Snowman's poor critical reception… An emotional interlude by Vin Diesel, in character as Dominic Toretto… Tragically, we will never see this masterpiece brought to life on stage.
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When the characters, now long separated and living lives of their own, are called back to Derry, they soon recover repressed memories of their battle against the evil, supernatural clown Pennywise (played with just as much terror as before by Bill Skarsgard), who preys on the town's young children every 27 years.
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The 2017 film version from Muschietti was a huge hit critically and commercially, and audience members, me included, were left wondering how the shape-shifting creature known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown would be defeated once and for all by a group of friends who affectionately refer to themselves as the Losers' Club.
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" Between Skårsgard's own imagination and director Andy Muschietti's vision for the character, a modern version of Pennywise — far darker and more modern than Tim Curry's, from the 1990 miniseries — was born: "You need to access parts of yourself where you're thinking, 'What's the most disturbing or horrifying thing that could happen right now?
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The original film applied that same attitude towards Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard), the physical manifestation of all the worst fears carried by the children of Derry, ME. Without knowing much about him, he's a terrifying prism through which to view the traumas of childhood, and the indifference with which they're often treated by adults.
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Adapting the first half of King's ambitious 1986 novel — in which a group of Derry, Maine-based kids battle an evil entity that mostly takes the form of a clown named Pennywise — director Andy Muschietti led a talented group of child actors through a largely faithful adaptation that effectively mixed scares and sentiment.
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The first movie, which focused on a group of barely pubescent children forced to deal with an ancient evil embodied by the killer clown Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard), had a real charm in the bonding of those self-proclaimed losers, which brought Stephen King's novel -- previously turned into a mostly admirable miniseries -- to life.
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Without King, we wouldn't have one of the most iconic and recognizable images in cinema history — Andy Dufresne standing in the rain after escaping from Shawshank prison — nor would we have the enduring horror of Pennywise the Clown, Cujo the slavering St. Bernard, or Kathy Bates's pitch-perfect stalker fan in Misery.
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In the depths of the Union Square station, the MTA partnered with a number of local spooky sponsors to create a 'Haunted Subway,' which welcomed a long line of commuters into a different kind of hell, one that included a man with hooks for hands, a Pennywise-like clown, and a zombie doctor, among others.
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The second trailer leans into that difficulty even more, balancing the more typical voiceover exposition and quick edits with a longer scene that shows our heroes, the Losers' Club, journeying into the sewers of Derry to track down Pennywise, the shape-shifting clown who preys on children's fears to lure them to their doom.
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As fans recall, Stephen King's 1,000-page, 1986 novel has been split into two films — the first following the story of the kids in the Losers Club (as seen in the 2017 movie, dubbed "chapter one") and the second featuring the parallel tale of their adult selves, who reunite 27 years later amid new Pennywise threats ("chapter two").
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So it wasn't until a few years later, when ABC broadcast a hugely successful two-night TV version, that It crept out of the sewer and into mainstream consciousness, thanks in large part to Tim Curry's giddily nasty portrayal of Pennywise, the killer clown who torments a group of friends from the 1950s through the '80s.
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As fans may remember, Stephen King's 1,000-page, 1986 novel has been split into two films — the first following the story of the kids in the Losers Club (as seen in the 2017 movie, dubbed "chapter one") and the second featuring the parallel tale of their adult selves, who reunite 27-years-later amid new Pennywise threats ("chapter two").
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"It wasn't a question of 'can we tell this particular thread of Pennywise or Carrie,' but 'how can we tell a story that honors the spirit of what Stephen King has been doing over and over again for 40 years' ... without a context for it except what people know and love about Stephen King," he says.
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There are few things in this world that scared us more than seeing Bill Skarsgård transform into Pennywise in 2017's It. But, while some people went to see the new iteration of the classic Stephen King novel just to judge it against the 1990 film, we went for a completely different reason: the Halloween beauty inspiration.
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Once the group has reconvened in Derry, they realize they're all a bit confused about why they're there; Pennywise seems to cast a spell of forgetfulness on anyone who leaves the town, so most of them barely remember their previous selves or their relationships with each other, even though they all felt psychically compelled to return.
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Slate's Matthew Dessem points out that though the clown scares preceded It, the novel's central menace, Pennywise the clown — who is more accurately a shape-shifting evil entity whose "resting state" is that of Stephen King's terrifying clown — returns to terrorize the children of suburban Maine once per generation, a pattern reminiscent of these real-life clown scares.
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While 2016 saw Harley Quinn (thanks, Suicide Squad) and unicorns dominate, the clusterfuck that is 2017 offers no shortage of inspiration from every corner of the news cycle: We should expect to see plenty of Offred and her contemporaries from The Handmaid's Tale, Wonder Woman, It's murderous clown Pennywise, and any and all things Game of Thrones or American politics.
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Although I've since left the fun, fervent excesses of erotic fandom behind, I was recently brought back by a wave of clickbaity headlines about more recent iterations of those fan communities, particularly a group of people who write about their attraction to fictional pariahs like Pennywise, the evil clown from Stephen King's It, and Venom, the alien-like Spider-Man villain.
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This is in keeping with its influences: there is no elaborate reason why Richard Dreyfuss becomes obsessed with aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Stephen King never details the ultimate origin of Pennywise the Clown in It. As a result, Stranger Things is a series that essentially has no mythology, only a series of questions and visceral peaks.
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On film, save for one element, these multiple worlds feel superimposed: a long-ruined theme park dedicated to "Pennywise" in Roland's world implies that It's shapeshifting titular character once ran the joint; a portal dubbed 1408 implies that the demonic hotel room of King's 1408 is but a jaunt away; other subtler references to Salem's Lot, Needful Things, and The Shining occur throughout the film.
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The series is produced by JJ Abrams and will star a handful of actors from previous King-inspired works, like Carrie's Sissy Spacek and Bill Skarsgård, who recently pissed off real-life clowns and Russia's Burger King with his portrayal of Pennywise in IT. Hulu has yet to announce a release date for the show, but it is expected to premiere sometime in 2018.
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Little by little, I pieced together the epic, confounding, overstuffed story: It involved a tortured man named Al Simmons, caught in the middle of a cold war between heaven and hell, smack dab in a gritty New York City filled with demented mobsters and criminals, a creepy ice cream-selling pedophile, and a demon that takes the form of a rundown version of Pennywise.
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Later on, we even catch a glimpse of Pennywise the Clown from It, looming in front of what appears to be a dilapidated carnival attraction bearing his name: Although some fans are already complaining that the film's script seems to be fashioned mainly from clichéd one-liners, there's a potential reason for that — King himself took a hatchet to Roland's movie dialogue, making sure he says as little as possible.
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At the end of 2017's IT, young Beverly (Sophia Lillis) reveals to the rest of the Losers Club kids — Bill Denbrough (Jaeden Martell), Eddie Kaspbrak (Jack Dylan Grazer), Richie Tozier (Finn Wolfhard), Stanley Uris (Wyatt Olef), Ben Hanscom (Jeremy Ray Taylor), and Mike (Chosen Jacobs) — that while she was possessed by Pennywise she had a vision that as adults they'd all come back together and fight him again.
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While a second film has not officially been announced, Entertainment Weekly reported Monday that the plan all along was to adapt King's 1,000-page 1986 novel into two films — the first following the story of the kids in the Losers Club (as seen in the current film, dubbed "chapter one") and the second featuring the parallel tale of their adult selves, who reunite in present day amid new Pennywise threats ("chapter two").
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The R-rated movie, adapted from Stephen King's 1986 novel about a demonic clown, Pennywise, who emerges from a sewer to prey on children, had been expected by box office analysts to take in roughly $70 million over its first three days — a total that seemed almost unbelievable in itself, given that the previous record-holder for a September release was the PG-rated "Hotel Transylvania 853," which arrived to about $50 million in 2015.
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"It's a different story, but I'm excited to delve in deeper to the character as there's more exploration for who Pennywise is…And I think that's what I wanted and that's where I want to go for the second one, to delve into the psychological and metaphysical spaces of this transdimensional being," Skarsgård told Metro UK. Before that transdimenional creature takes the spotlight in a sequel, here's what you need to know about the monster's creepy origins before seeing It, out this Friday.
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As a horror adaptation of a Stephen King novel, it never comes close to the heights of classics like The Shining and Carrie — but the depth of its characterization and the casting of genuinely good young actors makes it a solid coming-of-age story, more closely aligned with another King adaptation, 1986's Stand by Me. It also feels more than a little inspired by Stranger Things, despite the fact that Finn Wolfhard was cast as Richie Tozier before the Netflix series debuted — and despite Stranger Things, of course, owing a debt of its own to Stand by Me. It shines when it's about the Losers Club, led by the talented Jaeden Lieberher as Bill, whether they're outrunning bullies or Pennywise.
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Taking place September 15 to 17 in Douglas Park, Riot Fest will also feature Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, and more, including: New Order, Paramore, Prophets of Rage, M.I.A., Wu-Tang Clan, Mike D (DJ Set), A Day To Remember, Gogol Bordello, Taking Back Sunday, Vic Mensa, Dirty Heads, TV on the Radio, Ministry, Dinosaur Jr., New Found Glory, Death From Above 1979, Bad Brains, FIDLAR, Action Bronson, Pennywise, Built to Spill, X, Peaches, The Lawrence Arms, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Orwells, Bayside, Say Anything, Mayday Parade, Streetlight Manifesto, Dead Cross, Minus the Bear, The Menzingers, LIARS, GWAR, Buzzcocks, GBH, Real Friends, Hot Water Music, Shabazz Palaces, Andrew W.K., Fishbone, The Story So Far, State Champs, Four Year Strong, Beach Slang, The Cribs, that dog.
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