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Stephen King's It [1990]
from Warner Home Video
starring Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Tim Curry, Olivia Hussey, Richard Masur
directed by Tommy Lee Wallace

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

Is there anything scarier than clowns? Of course not. And who knows scary better than Stephen King? You see where we're going. It puts a malevolent clown (given demented life by a powdered, red-nosed Tim Curry) front and center, as King's fat novel gets the TV-movie treatment. Even at three hours plus, the action is condensed, but an engaging Stand by Me vibe prevails for much of the running time. The seven main characters, as adolescents, conquered a force of pure evil in their Maine hometown. Now, the cackling Pennywise is back, and they must come home to fight him--or, should we say, It--again. Admitting the TV-movie trappings and sometimes hysterical performances, this is a genuinely gripping thriller. As so often with King, the basic idea (the bond formed during a childhood trauma) is clean and powerful, a lifeline anchored in reality that leads us to the supernatural. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• IT doesn't stand up to some of kings other great titles!
  This film is about seven old school friends who were stalked by an evil clown when they were kids. But thirty something years later the defeated monster comes back from god knows where to seek revenge. ThIs is where the story begins and the film becomes repetitive. You watch the crazy clown make seven personal and anti-social visits to each one of the characters, struck with terror each one of the seven characters thinks back thirty years to when they first saw the clown and how it could come back after so... more info

• Good film but its far too long
  IT is a good film but at over 3 hours long, it makes it difficult to watch in one sitting. I believe they could of knocked half an hour off the running time and no-one would notice. For the film itself, 4 stars but because of its running time, 3.5 stars.
  

• Good Film-If Scared By Clowns
  I think that this film is scary only if you are scared of clowns but otherwise you will find it difficult to watch a "horror" film about a character that you had at your last birthday party.
  Still give it a try.

• Not perfect, but still enjoyable
  I'm in pretty much the same position as everyone else-I loved the first part of this film but the second part I find much less engaging. I loved the book, but that was similar. The first part was excellent, but the adulthood section of the book was a lot weaker and a bit disappointing.
  The plot briefly is this. Children in the town of Derry are being murdered by an entity whose primary form is a clown, played brilliantly by Tim Curry. If this film didn't give you a clown phobia as a child then nothing... more info

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