While Hank Grogan did narrowly avoid death in It: Welcome to Derry episode 5, his run-in referenced another Stephen King novel and proved his troubles aren’t over yet. In It: Welcome to Derry ’s opening scene , the show made it clear that it wouldn’t pull any punches. The prequel to the It movies is even more ruthless than the movies themselves.

This is what makes It: Welcome to Derry 's dark Hank Grogan storyline so unsettling. The pilot episode had a shocking twist as most of the show’s apparent main characters were killed by Pennywise, who attacked them in an otherwise-empty movie theater by taking the form of a giant demonic baby.

While this description might sound silly, there was nothing funny about the bloodbath that ensued. All the show’s main characters, save for

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