IT Chapter 2

IT Chapter 2 Movie Review

    "IT Chapter Two" is the sequel to Stephen King's novel turned into a horror film known as "IT".

The film is about a group of friends who have gone their separate ways 27 years after believing they defeated the evil clown known as "IT". As murders begin to increase inside the town of Derry, Maine where the group of friends are from, one of the characters named Mike who was the only person in their friend group formally known as "the Losers' Club", that stayed in town, he rallies up the group together to share his insight on how "IT" the evil clown has returned to the town of Derry, Maine. The clown "IT" returns after 27 years since torturing the group of friends from Derry, Maine and with the help from each other and cooperation they do their best to find a way to defeat "IT" once and for all after years of not seeing the treacherous clown. 

As the plot of the movie progresses, the group of friends from "the Losers' Club" join together after years of going their separate ways to take down the clown "IT". The evil clown "IT" uses the trauma and the fears of all the characters in "the Losers' Club" as a ploy to attack each individual and make them ultimately realize who and what they are running against. The movie really scared me in a way that made me want to cover my eyes every five seconds inside the movie theater but also see what was next to come. Even though there was mostly horror and guts and blood throughout the movie "IT", it still portrayed a lot of emotion and humanistic values with the interactions within the characters thoughts with themselves and their interactions with each other. The movie ended up being a film that I would never forget because I loved the ending on how they finally defeated that clown after almost over 20 years of not knowing the clown "IT" still existed.

To summarize, at first I thought "IT" was going to be just another horror movie that I would completely dismiss, this time I was wrong. After watching the movie I saw how much emotion and struggle that I could internally relate to inside the movie "IT". The way humans have the ability to sacrifice and do whatever it takes to reach a common goal or motive with others or to try to prove something for themselves hit home with me since I see myself doing that all the time with other people and myself without realizing it. My cultural horizons expanded within the canon of film by taking a leap of faith and trying to build a better understanding of the horror genre and for the first time ever showing real appreciation for it.