I know we have ventured down this road before and shown you some of the previous trailers, but I guess saving the best of the bunch for last makes sense.
Even if you’ve already seen the first and second trailers, and somehow managed not to swear off clowns for the rest of your life, the latest (and we hope final) It trailer is the stuff nightmares are made of.
Sorry not sorry, I guess:
The movie is going to run a full 135 minutes, and according to Slash Film there’s a few things we can take from that:
This is highly unusual for a horror movie, as you’ll rarely find movies in the genre that run that long. The vast majority of them tend to fall in the 85 or 90-minute mark, favoring [sic] a lean and mean pace over, especially nuanced storytelling.
…as a Stephen King fan, this news can’t help but feel promising. It isn’t a great book because it’s scary (although it is terrifying). It’s Stephen King’s most unnerving novel because of the level of unnerving detail and history. It’s a masterpiece because the characters are so nuanced and real and their relationships feel so lived-in. It may be a 1,200-page book, but it earns every one of those pages. It’s an exhausting, sometimes punishing experience, but you feel like you understand these people and their world when you finish it.
Of course, It only adapts half of the book, leaving the 27-years-later storyline for a potential sequel. Even so, the thought that one-half of this epic tome getting the 135-minute treatment makes me more hopeful than any trailer. This is evidence that Muschietti and his team are focusing on character and story in addition to the scares, building a movie that has the time and space to really explore the dynamic of this world during the scenes when the shape-shifting clown monster isn’t murdering children.
“Shape-shifting clown monster” – sleep on that.
I’m pretty sure I won’t be watching this one out of a sense of self-preservation, but if you’re diving in I wish you the best of luck.
The movie gets its worldwide release on September 7.
[source:slashfilm]
