It took John Carpenter just over 30 minutes to kill a kid. In his 1976 movie Assault on Precinct 13 , a cute lil’ moppet with blonde pigtails wanders back to the ice cream truck that just sold her a cone, not realizing that the vendor has been murdered by street toughs. As soon as she arrives, one of those toughs blasts her without a second thought, splatting blood across her overalls.

Shocking as the moment was to audiences 50 years ago, little Kathy’s (Kim Richards) death has nothing on the carnage that finishes the premiere of the HBO Max series It: Welcome to Derry . In the final scene, the show’s titular Eldritch terror hijacks a screening of The Music Man to launch an attack on a quintet of youngsters. First, it takes the form a kid It killed earlier to appear on screen

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