This weekend, HBO Max will premiere the first episode of IT: Welcome to Derry. This prequel series from Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, the brother-sister duo behind IT and IT: Chapter Two will give audiences gnarly new tales involving Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Now, fans of the hard-R-rated horror movies starring Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise might think they know what to expect from this new show. Cool, cool, cool. You're wrong.

Mashable's Entertainment team has been thoroughly gagged — in both ways — by IT: Welcome to Derry , which builds upon three interludes from Stephen King's novel IT. And while we won't share spoilers of the horrors about to unfold, we do want to give you a simple warning:

Don't plan to eat while watching the premiere episode of IT: Welcome to De

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