You can even see it in the film’s trailers, as the quick flashes of the evils ahead are still pretty freaky in a “safe for nighttime cable” context.
Just look at the clip that was run during the MTV Movie Awards, and take comfort in the fact that there are some R-rated depths we still haven’t seen in this modern take on a horror legend.
Still, with Box Office Mojo’s rundown of the content that will be coming our way in IT, the film sounds like it’s going to be the jarring and frightening experience that the 1986 novel has delivered to fans for 31 years now.