However, Pennywise is also a shapeshifting entity who draws children in and then preys on them using their deepest fears.
Whatever your opinion on Tim Curry’s Pennywise may be, his clown getup made him look more approachable…until the fangs came out, that is.
That instinct certainly paid off in making Bill Skarsgard’s Pennywise look scarier.
Skarsgard’s Pennywise, on the other hand, looks creepy from the get-go, and it’s harder to imagine anyone, even a kid, believing he’s a harmless figure at first.