Pictures did an interesting thing: while the unspeakable title monster, personified as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, was the center of the movie’s marketing, the actor playing him, Bill Skarsgard, seemed to be deliberately kept somewhat off the radar - no doubt to preserve the mystery behind his terrifying and spectacular performance as an evil being that feeds off the fear of seven young children who band together to fight It.ĭen of Geek was one of a small group of outlets that had a chance to sit for a roundtable discussion with the 27-year-old Skarsgard shortly before It opened.
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I mean, is anyone shitting on the original Mario because he was limited to 8 bits? It's no different than Curry's performance, he was trapped within the confines of what was accepted on network TV at the time and STILL managed to leave an impression almost 30 years later.Before the new film version of Stephen King’s It opened this weekend to record-smashing box office success ($123 million at the U.S. It's the same character but the mediums are completely different and it's not fair to say the original Mario looks worse because he doesn't look/move like he does in the newest game. It's like comparing the first Super Mario Bros on the original NES to Super Mario Odyssey (hasn't come out yet) for the Switch.
This whole argument is pointless to begin with. But in context of what was allowed on TV back in '90 his performance WAS scary and for Curry's performance to held as a staple of the horror genre almost 30 years later for a bad fucking TV movie, I think we could speculate he could do a helluva job if given the same platform for him to perform on. I'll admit that by TODAY'S standards Curry isn't really scary.
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I'll admit that the movie does not hold up well. I watched it when it originally came out and in it on DVD. But I get it, red letter media dismissed it as much, and so now people are just parroting them. not exactly a conventional cheap jump scare. Then when Pennywise comes through the wall, in perhaps his most deliberately large and most terrifying form, yeah that's technically a jump scare to begin with, but that scene continues and it's a quite prolonged attack that only stops when someone opens the garage door. Firstly, it built an unsettling tone with the zooming in on the photo of the mother with pennywise's face, the kids are primed for a fright, they're also all mutually experiencing IT together for the first time. The projector scene is not what I'd call a cheap moment with no pay off. The projector scene was way more than a jump scare.Ī jump scare is considered a negative pretty much because many scary movies use it to fool an audience into thinking something scary is happening, when really it's just a soundtrack making a loud noise, while the monster appear only briefly or does not actually appear at all and it's just the protagonist reacting to something innocuous. there were lots of jump scares in this movie (the big one that got most of the people in my cinema was when the girl turns around after having brained her father) but it balances it with creepy, genuinely scary imagery.
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