Like most Horror fans, I've
been looking forward to this remake of IT
for what feels like forever. I read the Stephen
King book when I was a kid and loved it. In fact, it's possibly my
favourite of all of his books. I also loved the original 'TV movie', or
whatever they call it, which starred the living legend that is Tim Curry as the evil clown Pennywise. As with any remake, the
movie was always going to be met with a certain level of hostility before its
release, as the original means so much to so many fans. However, I'm not one to
look at the past through rose tinted glasses. While the original was awesome in
its own way, by today's standards, it looks pretty dated. Back then, there were
more rules in place regarding what you could and couldn't have in a movie,
especially when it came to violence towards children. Now censorship laws are
more relaxed, and CGI technology is infinitely superior to what it was in the
nineties, Hollywood are finally able to give us the movie that the book truly
deserves.
