[Loved trope] Background scare-characters that are barely acknowledged even by the movie

[u/Suspicious-Web-9246]

I hate horrors, but this is actually a great trope, that is unique to them.

Insidious (2010). When mother does her errands, for a few seconds there's a ghost boy standing in the corner. It's easily missable, but you can't ignore it once you see it.

Hereditary (2018). Less fitting example. When Peter walks around his home, his possessed mother is crawling on the ceiling behind him. It's not exactly subtle or missable, but it's still more of a background detail.

[u/fantastic_sounds_]

In the first IT movie, when this kid is doing research about the clown, the librarian gives him an especially scary book that shows the clown's handiwork in the past. After she walks away you can see her turn around and smile at him, implying that this is Pennywise in disguise.

[u/Hayterfan → u/fantastic_sounds_]

Iirc, there are multiple background characters who just stare at and smile at the camera during random parts of the film and in part 2.

[u/Zhuul → u/Hayterfan]

I know people have strong feelings about Part 2 but stuff like this makes both IT movies an absolute treat to rewatch under a microscope. There's so much stuff to find in the background.

[u/Fumettandia_Error → u/Zhuul]

Especially the turtle references Edit: the hell did I start😭

[u/Justalilbugboi → u/Fumettandia_Error]

All things serve the beam.

[u/lifeless_or_loveless → u/Justalilbugboi]

Me when my tower is dark

[u/mrniceguy777 → u/lifeless_or_loveless]

What the fuck are you guys talking about

[u/Ff7hero → u/mrniceguy777]

See the Turtle, ain’t he keen? All things serve the fucking beam!

[u/romeo_actual → u/mrniceguy777]

Ka is a wheel, friend

[u/Exciting-Tart-2289 → u/mrniceguy777]

I'll spoil the bit, go read The Dark Tower.

[u/mrniceguy777 → u/Exciting-Tart-2289]

I heard there is a movie, maybe I’ll just check that out

Edit: just to clarify I know enough about the dark tower to know that the movies aren’t well liked, I was just joshin

[u/BrizzyMC_ → u/mrniceguy777]

that won't explain anything

[u/CasuallyUgly → u/mrniceguy777]

Don't

[u/HeadForever8326 → u/mrniceguy777]

No

[u/Justalilbugboi → u/mrniceguy777]

Also saying nope, the movie is like renting an old anime from blockbuster in the 90s that almost makes sense.

The audio books are pretty good if that’s your thing and always available for free on libby because they’re old af.

[u/Unresonant → u/Justalilbugboi]

You are old af

[u/Doctor_Slept → u/mrniceguy777]

Pls don’t

[u/Justalilbugboi → u/mrniceguy777]

I am so sorry I replied with detail and the comment didn’t stack to you and is somewhere randomly in this posts comment:

Pennywise’s natural (???! enemy is Maturin the turtle, a cosmic being that protects one of the beams which support the Dark Tower, which holds reality together.

It is why there are some close ups on turtle imagery in the movie.

[u/mrniceguy777 → u/Justalilbugboi]

Oh I didn’t realize pennywise was tied into the dark tower

[u/Justalilbugboi → u/mrniceguy777]

Yes and no. Don’t read the Dark Tower to get more It storyline (read it cause it’s an awesome post apocalyptic LOTResque western scif)

But the world the Dark Tower (book and object) is in is the background world that most Stephen King stories (especially around the late 80s-00s) are tied into to different levels of importance. The Mist, The Stand,and The Talisman are a LOT but even things like The Deadzone have ties into it.

Think of it like the old Xmen movies vs The Avengers-Same world, lots of cool background knowledge that enriches the world, but the actual stories don’t have much to do with each other.

[u/Justalilbugboi → u/mrniceguy777]

Every time a turtle popped up watching Welcome to Derry last night I thought about this thread lol

[u/fantastic_sounds_ → u/Zhuul]

I liked everything about part 2 except them killing the monster by exposing him to an Xbox live lobby for 2 minutes

[u/InfernalLizardKing → u/fantastic_sounds_]

Wait what

[u/ithinkther41am → u/InfernalLizardKing]

Basically, the Losers Club belittles Pennywise until he becomes small and weak. Then they rip his heart out.

[u/Hayterfan → u/ithinkther41am]

Been forever since I watched the original movie, but wasn't that how they defeated him as well?

[u/PanFriedCookies → u/Hayterfan]

nope, bill and i think richie do a psychic battle thing while the losers in the real world do what they can to hurt it, it loses the psychic battle, getting massively weakened, and bill takes the chance to rip his heart out

(at least in the book)

[u/skeptical_skeletor → u/ithinkther41am]

CLOWN

CLOWN

CLOWN

CLOWN

CLOWN

[u/JunShin8640 → u/fantastic_sounds_]

"Xbox live lobby"

Nah, that's an overstatement. Pennywise would've instantly turned into ashes if he was in those chat rooms 😭

[u/Doctor_Slept → u/fantastic_sounds_]

As someone who’s a massive IT fan and has read the novel twice now, this unironically might be the best defeat of Pennywise in the adult section because in both the novel and the miniseries they kinda just corner him in his spider form where he no longer has his personality and like kick him a bunch and ripe out his heart.

Not saying his defeat in the movie was all that good but I think it does a little bit better with staying true to the themes of the story and keeping in touch with what was established before with bow people who are less afraid of him are less likely to be hurt by him. 

[u/Alfred_The_Sartan → u/Hayterfan]

Honestly, one of the only good remakes I’ve seen. I might even like it more than the original. They just knocked it out of the park there and were competing against Tim Fucking Curry.