It
2017 · Movie · R · 135 min · ★ 7.2 · 77% critics
In a small Maine town, seven kids known as The Losers Club confront life problems, bullies, and an unsettling evil that targets them through frightening clown encounters. As their fear grows, they work to face what’s lurking and stop it from taking more from the town.
Based on It
Also known as It: Chapter One
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Details
- Years
- 2017
- Release date
- 2017-09-06
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 77/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (20,354 votes)
- Box office
- $701,842,551
- Budget
- $35,000,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a kids-vs-evil small-town horror packed with creepy clown moments and plenty of fear, especially if you liked The Long Walk or The Strain; Not for you if you only enjoy horror that feels genuinely scary rather than disturbing, or if you dislike jump scares and CGI-heavy scenes.
Pros: plenty of scares; strong kid performances; unsettling Pennywise | Cons: inconsistent horror impact; heavy CGI/jump scares; some cliché behavior
Themes
- small town
- based on novel or book
- haunted house
- clown
- bullying
- abandoned house
- coming of age
- flashback
- murder
- balloon
- maine
- school
- +17 more
Cast & crew
Jaeden Martell
as Bill Denbrough
Jeremy Ray Taylor
as Ben Hanscom
Sophia Lillis
as Beverly Marsh
Finn Wolfhard
as Richie Tozier
Chosen Jacobs
as Mike Hanlon
Jack Dylan Grazer
as Eddie Kaspbrak
Wyatt Oleff
as Stanley Uris
Bill Skarsgård
as Pennywise
Nicholas Hamilton
as Henry Bowers
Jake Sim
as Belch Huggins
Directed by Andy Muschietti