![]() Believe me: I wasn’t a huge fan the first time I saw Get Out I thought it wasn’t scary enough to be a horror movie, or funny enough to be a comedy. The first, Jordan Peele’s confident, electrifying directorial debut after cutting his teeth with Keegan-Michael Key on Key & Peele, only gets better with every viewing. The others: Get Out, It Comes at Night, and Raw. The opening scene with Pennywise the Clown in the sewer, in particular, is one for the ages.įor all those reasons, and for the Anthrax-set “rock fight” scene, It is the fourth R-rated horror movie released in 2017 that horror fans will still be talking about in 2027. ![]() It‘s not particularly scary, but the terror is clever, and director Muschietti and cinematographer Chung-hoon Chung (who worked on 2016’s gorgeous The Handmaiden) have a keen eye for showing familiar frights in new ways. The set pieces are well staged, the child actors are unanimously not annoying (that is the greatest compliment you can pay a child actor), and Bill Skarsgård’s performance is memorably extravagant without drifting into camp. ![]() ![]() It is everything supposedly wrong with Hollywood - an unoriginal idea, reliance on nostalgia, an obvious setup to a sequel (or Chapter Two) - done mostly right. But it’s not even the best R-rated horror film of 2017.ĭon’t get me wrong, that’s not a knock on It. It‘s success is the result of a confluence of events - post- Stranger Things ’80s nostalgia a hunger for a mid-budget, crowd-pleasing horror movie a clever marketing campaign King’s endorsement - that came together perfectly, and it’s also a really good movie. Andres Muschietti’s big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s classic creepy clown novel, which took in an incredible $123.4 million over the weekend, immediately topped Paranormal Activity, Interview with the Vampire, and Scream, among literally thousands of other titles, and should best The Conjuring ($137.4 million), The Blair Witch Project ($140.5 million), Get Out ($175.4 million), and maybe even The Exorcist ($232.9 million) before the end of its box office run. Despite only having been released four days ago, It is already the fifth highest-grossing R-rated horror movie of all-time.
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