IT question

[Guest Black Tiger]

I bought the DVD of Stephen King's IT, from my understanding of the film, the only times "IT" is really visible is to those who beleive in it. How is Pennywise able to kill that guard in the mental hospital when he has no basis for being able to see him?

 

Also a technical quesiton but on my DVD when I played the cast and crew commentaries, in certain scenes the audio would fade in and out, not just the movie but on the commentary too? Do I have a defective DVD?

[Guest Youth N Asia]

I thought Pennywise left something to the guy in the hospital to kill the gaurd.

[Guest mach7]

I thought Pennywise left something to the guy in the hospital to kill the gaurd.

I think you're right there. I remember the guy killing the guard when he was going to beat on him with a roll of quarters or something. I haven't seen that movie in years...

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

Nah, Pennywise killed the guard, but it was possible for him to do that. IT and Pennywise aren't exactly the same thing. To use a blasphemous analogy, IT is God and Pennywise is Jesus. I really only understand that cause I read the book, the whole concept is a little weird.

I think your dvd is defective cause mine never had that audio fadeout.

[Guest Black Tiger]

Pennywise gave Henry Bowers his old Knife to kill the people who killed Pennywise 30 years earlier. Pennywise turned into a dog or something to kill the guard.

[Guest wrestlingbs]

Nah, Pennywise killed the guard, but it was possible for him to do that. IT and Pennywise aren't exactly the same thing. To use a blasphemous analogy, IT is God and Pennywise is Jesus. I really only understand that cause I read the book, the whole concept is a little weird.

I think your dvd is defective cause mine never had that audio fadeout.

I'm reading SK's Insomnia right now. it's much better than I thought it would be. How's It: the book? Better than the movie?

 

And who else hated the "true" form of It? Kind of cheap looking.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

The book is excellent, far beyond the movie. I'm not particularly a fan of SK or pop horror in general, but IT is actually one of my all time favorite books.

The ending was really untranslatable to film, which is probably part of the reason the movie ending was so terrible.

[Guest Black Tiger]

When I was watching the movie with the commentary with the cast and director, they were even saying how it didn't seem logical that Pennywise would kill that guard.

 

The "true" form of IT in the film was more or less due to the limitations of the technology for that time period and the budget for the film.

 

I never read the book IT, but as a film I'd rank it as one of the most scary films I'd ever seen, and according to the director that seems to be a common sentiment as people say that Pennywise has made them uncomfortable with Clowns for the rest of their lives.

 

What's weird is that one scene I found to be scary in a psychological sense was when Pennywise was disguised as Bev and started kissing Ben, then IT takes the shape of Pennywise and screams "KISS ME FAT BOY" and when that scene played the whole cast laughed their asses off