The Thing (and I presume you mean the 1980 John Carpenter version) is pretty damned good. My top 10 horror/scary movies (in no particular order)... The Shining Halloween The Thing (1980) A Nightmare on Elm Street It Follows Alien Jaws Dawn of the Dead (1978) The Exorcist An American Werewolf in London
A little late to the party, but saw It last night. Pretty good and the young actors (especially the girl) are all terrific. Bring on the sequel with the adults. Don't know who will play the boys, but the girl's got to be Amy Adams.
I FINALLY saw "IT". "IT" was pretty good. "IT" was creepy & well done. Thumbs up! Caught "IT" on "IT"s last day in theatres in my community. Looking forward to Chapter 2!
I didn't this the movie was scary, but most certainly creepy. I'm definitely looking forward to chapter two.
Was I the only one who noticed that if you were a main character pennywise seemed to be working for the parents as the terror that made the losers club clean the bathroom without anyone telling them too? I am watching the movie and everything is somewhat make believe unless you believe it and then your arm gets eaten. Then there is a bloody bathroom that molester dad doesn't see, and they all see the bathroom and have to clean it? What sort of kids are these? I would have been like cool your dad doesn't see it and it is all in your head so let us go to the quarry and check out your underwear again. A clown so scary it makes kids clean the bathroom. Now I know why none of the parents gave a shit. They obviously knew the key to the clown was to do your fucking chores, and go play in the sewer or an abandoned quarry. There is a reason kids are disappearing and perhaps pennywise was just a PSA. One of the kids breaks his arm playing in a broken down house and then his mom grounds him keeping him safe from the sewer and probably a van roaming around town looking for kids. The scariest thing in the movie was the town bullies roaming around cutting people with knives and no adults seemed to care. Yeah I had bullies back in the 80s but if I came home with knife wounds someone was going to jail. I don't think my parents would have sat around for that one. That is the scary part of this. You got psychopath slasher kids raised by a cop who shoots at them and berates them for being scared. You have rapist dad and come give me some tongue mom. The safest place in the town is the sewer because the clown is really not that scary compared to the adults. Mr. Clown ate one of the bullies, and the annoying little brother. Maybe he is not so bad? I would be giving pennywise a fucking chance considering the psychos in Stephen king town. His human characters are almost always more scary than his demented evil. Think about it, that is normally the way Stephen king movies are. Misery had no evil super natural force and it was scary as hell. In the stand the people in Vegas were scary and evil, but flag was not that terrible as long as he wasn't choosing you to have his child and you went along with him. It is Stephen king land where supernatural evil is just sort of so so compared to human depravity and sadism.
Stranger things was more creepy and better, but it was Stephen king land if you ask me. Except for the fact that if it was Stephen king land the government would be the shop and they would totally be more evil than the thing in the upside down. Eleven's poppa would have been raping her and have beaten her mother into retardation. The town sheriff would have been working with them and beating up the losers club while making the bully cut them up.
According to imdb, the young actress who played Beverly (Sophia Lillis) has already played a younger version of an Amy Adams character in the TV series Sharp Objects.
James McAvoy is in talks for adult Bill, and Bill Hader for adult Richie. http://www.darkhorizons.com/mcavoy-hader-in-talks-for-it-sequel/
Jay Ryan is adult Ben. http://www.darkhorizons.com/jay-ryan-is-adult-ben-in-it-chapter-two/ That's Mike left to go.
Isaiah Mustafa, the Old Spice "I'm on a horse", guy is adult Mike! http://www.darkhorizons.com/isaiah-mustafa-is-mike-in-it-chapter-two/
Teach Grant is adult Henry Bowers. And, that's the heroes, and the secondary villain, so that's all the big roles. http://www.darkhorizons.com/teach-grant-is-henry-in-it-chapter-two/
