I'm having a great time with It: Welcome to Derry , but there's one creative decision that gnaws at me. I'll never forget walking out of It: Chapter One in 2017 thinking that I’d just seen one of the best horror movies of the 21st century . Pennywise was terrifying in every form, and director Andy Muschietti shaped those sequences with a high level of craft that still makes them memorable today.

Then It: Chapter Two arrived and I still enjoyed it. But the drop in quality was hard to ignore. Fans often point to the adult storyline as the novel’s weakest thread, which is fair, yet that wasn’t the real problem. The issue was the sudden, overwhelming dependence on CGI that broke the spell the first movie cast so effectively, and a tonal shift that ignored what made Chapter One s

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