One uphill battle of It: Welcome to Derry is that, at this point, the titular entity is a very familiar fear to audiences. Between King’s classic novel and the movie adaptations that inspired the new series, we’ve seen Pennywise do some terrifying things—so given a fresh crop of characters , mostly with largely unknown fates, Welcome to Derry needed to prove really quickly that it still had a lot of bite .

Best way to do that? Kill a bunch of your fresh-faced child actors.

The opening of Welcome to Derry ‘s premiere—a gruesome scene we’ve been thinking about since it was screened at San Diego Comic-Con over the summer—sees a young boy named Matty (Miles Ekhardt) try and get a lift out of the cursed titular town, only for his would-be rescuers to be revealed as one of

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