I watched It for the first time the other day, after watching Doug Walker's review of it, and I just laughed my ass off the whole time. I used to be afraid of clowns, but after watching It, I got over it. I'm just wondering if there is anyone here who actually found the movie scary.
Here's a link to The Nostalgia Critic's review, in case anyone hasn't seen it and wants to. [url]http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/28239-it[/url]
This movie isn't meant to scare adults. It's meant to scare kids to death and have their parents use the fear of clowns to control them.
Look at it through the characters' point of view. There's all of this unreal shit going on and it finds them wherever they go. it's like the kids think they're in coming of age/kids go on an adventure movie like the goonies or something, but they're trapped in a surreal horror movie.
It works as a book. I didn't sleep easily after reading the book, random gangbang or no.
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;31414451]I used to find it a little creepy when I was younger, but just the scene where he's in the book and he looks up and sees them. That creeped me out.[/QUOTE]
That part was a little creepy, but that's it. The rest of the film is practically comedy. It wouldn't even scare my 8 year old stepbrother. I know this for a fact as he has watched Final Destination, Child's Play, and he plays games like Left 4 Dead and Dead Rising.
As a kid: yes
Now: lol
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Psychological thrillers are where it's at.
[QUOTE=cyclocius;31416878]It works as a book. I didn't sleep easily after reading the book, random gangbang or no.[/QUOTE]
That one part in the book with the leeches, not just it but the kid's backstory was very unsettling.
First time I watched it I found it hilarious.
I don't really find any classic horror films scary.
The Shinning and Friday the 13th are also good examples.
Yes.
God damnit why did you even bring it up.
Fuck now I'm looking over my shoulder every two seconds.
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I haven't seen it since I was little, actually.
But I'm p sure I've been traumatized by it.
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I fucking locked the VHS inside a box under a bunch of shit inside a filing cabnet I was so terrifed.
I did find it horribly scary when I was a kid. Much like in some horror movies, I had to cover my eyes.
Watched it about 8 years later and I didn't even blink.
Saw it for the first time when I was around 5 or 6,it pretty much scared me then,even had a dream where I was stuck in a bathroom similar to the shower scene.Nowadays I've thought about how much I want to see some kind of Pennywise vs. Joker vs. Sweet Tooth kind of thing.
Same thing for me as it was for nachos, minus the nightmare. I saw it when I was 5 I think, and yes it did scare me. Oddly enough, it was really the last movie that truly scared me. Since then movies have been able to make me jump, like the modern scary movies that try to shock you rather than scare you (such as The Ring), but no movie has really scared me since then. I never read the book, sadly...
Scared me quite a bit when I first saw it at the tender age of 6.
But, since then I've become a cynical bastard that judges everything I watch and play with the utmost scrutiny.
And as such, this is certainly one of the worst 'horror' movies I have ever seen and I've seen a lot of them and most of them have SOME redeeming values... whereas this one's only saving grace is Tim Curry's fucked up performance.
[QUOTE=smithy69;31417374]It wouldn't even scare my 8 year old stepbrother. I know this for a fact as he has watched Final Destination, Child's Play, and he plays games like Left 4 Dead and Dead Rising.[/QUOTE]I wouldn't be so sure; kids can react to "horror" things with a helluva lot more variety than teens and adults.
I knew this one kid that was a friend of the family, a little girl around the 5-8 age bracket, who for some reason or other wound up watching the [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWD23_pyOGU]"regeneration scene"[/url] from the first [i]Hellraiser[/i] flick without so much as getting fazed. It just didn't register of anything noteworthy to her.
Later that same day, she walked up to me in tears about something another kid in the house was doing. Turns out that he wanted to watch the first [i]Nightmare on Elm Street[/i], since everyone was apparently in a horror-watching mood, and popped the DVD into the player. He hadn't even started the movie yet, though. The DVD [i]menu[/i], where a silhouetted Freddy walks around in the background doing a whole lot of nothing, was what was terrifying the girl. Who had earlier had no problem watching a skeleton scream while de-liquifying itself and shoving organs back into it's ribcage.
Tim Curry is hilarious in this movie. Didn't see it when I was young, so I can't see how you could be scared of this movie.
BALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONS
also i had a nightmare involving pennywise once
I love it, then again I didn't watch it until I was an adult.
I think clowns are awesome, and I often just found Pennywise hilarious.
I'm a bit sadistic though, I love seeing other people scared by clowns.
i love the movie but like someone else said im pretty sure its only meant to scare little kids
[QUOTE=Mister B;31423820]Yes.
God damnit why did you even bring it up.
Fuck now I'm looking over my shoulder every two seconds.
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I haven't seen it since I was little, actually.
But I'm p sure I've been traumatized by it.
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I fucking locked the VHS inside a box under a bunch of shit inside a filing cabnet I was so terrifed.[/QUOTE]
Watch it again, it won't be any scary.
It would only frighten little kids.
I watched it a few months ago and found it extremely boring, too long and ridiculous. Expecially the ending.
in my opinion it's a bad movie.
It's probably too reliant on the fear of clowns, I have 2 friends who's scared of clowns and these two still find this movie scary as shit :v:
I think it's scarier to children because not only are they more frightened by things, they also develop new fears more easily.
[QUOTE=Pennywise;31442655]I wouldn't be so sure; kids can react to "horror" things with a helluva lot more variety than teens and adults.
I knew this one kid that was a friend of the family, a little girl around the 5-8 age bracket, who for some reason or other wound up watching the [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWD23_pyOGU]"regeneration scene"[/url] from the first [i]Hellraiser[/i] flick without so much as getting fazed. It just didn't register of anything noteworthy to her.
Later that same day, she walked up to me in tears about something another kid in the house was doing. Turns out that he wanted to watch the first [i]Nightmare on Elm Street[/i], since everyone was apparently in a horror-watching mood, and popped the DVD into the player. He hadn't even started the movie yet, though. The DVD [i]menu[/i], where a silhouetted Freddy walks around in the background doing a whole lot of nothing, was what was terrifying the girl. Who had earlier had no problem watching a skeleton scream while de-liquifying itself and shoving organs back into it's ribcage.[/QUOTE]
In my case, I'm positive that he'd like it because 1. He laughs at anything violent. 2. Nothing seems to scare him. 3. He's aware that movies are movies. 4. He's seen A LOT. I don't think a film about a clown will scare him if he's already experienced a doll and Rube Goldberg machines (And for the record, Final Destination is starting to get old. The first one was amazing but after that the films are identical so it's just kinda like "STOP MAKING THESE MOVIES!!!!!!!!!!!") and laughed during the films (ok, I may have laughed when Terry got hit by the bus, but so did my mother and step-father.) Anyway, this I am 99.9% sure of.
I think IT was one of those movies that scared the shit out of pretty much everybody as a child, myself included.
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