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Sep 6, 2017 · Pennywise is one of modern horror’s greatest monsters. He’s the original killer clown from outer space and the most infamous villain in Stephen King’s bibliography, which is saying something ...
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- Sean T. Collins
- We’ll all float in this informative look at the ultimate Stephen King villain.
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By Arnold T. Blumberg
Posted: May 17, 2018 5:36 pm
That creepy clown Pennywise is back in a big way these days thanks to the huge success of last year's movie version of the 1986 Stephen King novel, It (which of course followed the 1990 TV adaptation of the same story). Yes indeed, Pennywise gonna get ya -- he looms large in the horror pantheon and inspires a lot of thought; there’s even one of those Internet “fan theories” (ugh) that suggests Pennywise is the same entity that appears as Killer Bob in Twin Peaks!
Now as the sequel to the film, It: Chapter 2, is ramping up and casting news is breaking (Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, James McAvoy, James Ransone, and Andy Bean will play the adult versions of the It kids, with Bill Skarsgård returning as the dastardly clown of the title), we figured it was time to once again explore who exactly Pennywise is and what his true nature is all about. So, let’s get going down into the sewers; after all, we all float down there…
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- Stephen King wanted Pennywise to be a clown because clowns terrify children. Coulrophobia, or the fear of clowns, had been around long before King began writing It in the early 1980s.
- Pennywise’s mortal enemy is a turtle. In the dense narrative of It, Pennywise seems to embody some of the most vicious evil in the universe. His counterpart is Maturin, a benevolent turtle that Losers’ Club member Bill Denbrough meets while traveling in the “Macroverse,” where Pennywise supposedly came from.
- Alice Cooper was considered for Pennywise. Like most of King’s books, It was optioned for an adaptation. Originally, it was due to be directed by Night of the Living Dead director George A. Romero, with whom King had collaborated on 1982’s anthology movie Creepshow.
- Tim Curry thought of Pennywise as a “smile gone bad.” Thanks to his outsized performance, Curry may have done as much for Pennywise’s reputation as King.
Feb 15, 2024 · In the original Stephen King novel IT, Billy (Jaeden Lieberher) glimpsed Pennywises's true form in the Deadlights for a moment, and he described it as an endless, crawling, hairy creature made of orange light. Though IT likes to manifest itself as a male clown named Pennywise, in the novel, IT also takes the form of an enormous female spider.
- Colin Mccormick
Sep 8, 2017 · It: Directed by Andy Muschietti. With Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard. In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.
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- Fantasy, Horror
- Andy Muschietti
- 2017-09-08
Sep 6, 2017 · Late in the summer of 1989, the marquee of the downtown movie theater in Derry, Me., advertises “A Nightmare on Elm Street 5.” This is an accurate period detail, and also a declaration of ...
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Sep 7, 2017 · This week, director Andrés Muschietti will unleash It on moviegoers, bringing one of horror master Stephen King’s biggest and best books to big-screen life at last. (Reviews have already started pouring in.) Starring Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise, the sinister shapeshifting clown whose made the town of Derry, Maine his killing ground and Jaeden Lieberher as Bill Denbrough, the leader of a ...
