12 years later, he released his most shocking book,It.
Those aren’t the only appearances of Pennywise, however.
Pennywise might reside in a sewer, but in King’s world, he is everywhere.
Throughout the ’70s and ’80s, everything he wrote was gold.
He released hit after hit, with so many of them adapted into popular feature films.
InIt, no one was safe, especially the reader.
Seven young outcasts in Derry, Maine, are about to face their worst nightmare – an ancient, shape-shifting evil that emerges from the sewer every 27 years to prey on the town’s children. Banding together over the course of one horrifying summer, the friends must overcome their own personal fears to battle the murderous, bloodthirsty clown known as Pennywise.
Instead, it was formed into a two-part miniseries for ABC.
Most of that positive attention is due to the chills-inducing performance ofTim Curryas Pennywise.
Then audiences got a look atBill Skarsgard.
And he called the classic a “crapfest”!
This wasn’t technically the last time Pennywise was seen on screen either.
1994’sInsomniatakes place in Derry and speaks of the events around Pennywise from the 1950s.
Lastly, in the 2018 novellaElevation, there is a band named Pennywise and the Clowns.
Pennywise not only taps into our fear of clowns but is the purveyor of anything we fear.
He is anything you’ve got the option to imagine and there is no escaping it.
Pennywise has been feeding on our fear for decades, and it’s not going to stop anytime soon.
2017’sItis available to watch on Prime Video in the U.S.
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