The Return Of Pennywise?

In the small town of Derry, Maine, seven outcasts are forced to face their fears, as they go on a mission to eliminate a creepy, crawly, bone-chilling, blood-curdling, murderous clown named Pennywise, who lures the town’s children into a sewage every 27 years. At the end of the film, Pennywise is presumably gone for good, but the sequel — out tonight — might be showing otherwise.

It is twenty-seven years later when a grown-up Beverly Marsh revisits her home. Something is just not right, especially with the new owner, who is a brittle old woman.

“The part where the lady was like ‘No one who dies here really dies,’ and she just started smiling and wouldn’t stop, I was waiting for a jump scare,” says Eastside sophomore Ally Moore. “In a way, that was more creepy than an actual jump scare because you’re just waiting for one, and instead of getting a jump scare, you get nothing but an old woman just smiling at the camera.”

The smiling scene — found in the film’s first trailer, released this past May— was a brilliant way to grab the audience’s audience, tricking them into thinking they were going to get a jump scare, something they would get in every other recent horror movie.

As Beverly looks at family photos, the old woman walks around the apartment naked, out of sight of Beverly.

“I’m assuming it was for comedic effect,” says Eastside senior Micheal Jamie. Beverly then realizes that the old woman’s father looks familiar, like a clown. Right after observing a picture with the word “Pennywise” on it, the viewers would hear the old woman, talking in an aggressive voice, saying things like “Are you still daddy’s girl, Beverly?” Then the woman ran out of the dark hallway, naked, and pinned Beverly to the fireplace.

The trailer is creepy, and no doubt the film will be even creepier. After all these years, the seven kids will be re-united, and horror movie fans couldn’t be more excited.

It: Chapter Two will be released tonight at Cinemark 22.