With Beverly found to be the best shot of the group, the responsibility of shooting the creature with Bill's slingshot falls to her. After Eddie is released from the hospital Ben makes 2 silver slugs out of a silver dollar, believing that silver will kill the monster. Later, The Losers Club discover a message written in Patrick's blood warning them that IT will kill them all if they continue trying to fight It. Spying on them, Beverly witnesses one of the bullies, Patrick Hockstetter, trying to empty a refrigerator which he had been using to trap and kill small animals, only to be killed by flying leeches. In late July, Eddie ends up in the hospital after Henry breaks his arm. In doing so they discover that It came to Derry millions of years before in an asteroid-like impact and that around every 27 years It awakens from a hibernative state underneath the town usually after some kind of terrible event or tragedy, to feed on and devour children for a period of 12 to 16 months. After further encounters with It, the Losers construct a makeshift Native American smokehole which Richie and Mike use to hallucinate It's origins. The bullies are defeated and an injured Henry swears revenge on The Losers Club before departing. The Losers Club suspects that It has control over Derry due to the number of unsolved disappearances and violent tragedies that go unnoticed or seem forgotten by the adults in the town.ĭuring the incident where Henry and his gang chase Mike into the Barrens, a rock fight is initiated with The Losers Club. Mike tells the Losers that he was attacked by a large prehistoric sized bird and they realize through Mike's picture book that It has been around for centuries. Meanwhile, Henry Bowers admits to poisoning Mike Hanlon's dog and chases him into the Barrens. The Losers Club refer to the creature as "IT" and link it with the recent child murders, including that of Eddie Corcoran who is killed by the monster in the form of the creature from the Black Lagoon. Ben as a mummy holding balloons, Eddie as a leper offering him a blowjob, Bill as Georgie's ghost, Richie as a werewolf, Stan as two drowned boys in the local standpipe and Beverly as blood spurting from her bathroom sink. As the summer draws on they realize they have each had an encounter with shape-shifting entity that takes the form of whatever they fear the most. They eventually refer to themselves as " The Losers Club". The 3 boys later befriend Richie Tozier, a jokester, Stan Uris, a Jewish boy, and Beverly Marsh, a lower-middle-class girl. There he meets Eddie Kaspbrak, a hypochondriac boy who believes he has asthma, and Bill Denbrough, Georgie’s older brother who has a stutter and rides a rusty bike named Silver.
Ben escapes and hides in the Barrens, a large wooded area. The following June, on the last day of school, Ben Hanscom, an overweight 11-year-old, is harassed by a group of bullies led by Henry Bowers, who trys to carve his name into Ben's stomach with a Buck knife. Pennywise offers Georgie a balloon which he refuses, however, the clown cleverly entices Georgie to reach into the drain to retrieve his boat and then tears off his arm, leaving him to bleed to death in the gutter.
Peering into the drain, Georgie sees a clown in a silver suit who introduces himself as "Mr. In October of 1957, after a heavy rainstorm in Derry, Maine, 6 year old George Denbrough is chasing a paper boat down a gutter. But none of them can withstand the force that has called each of them back to Derry nearly three decades later, to face the nightmare without a true face and the evil without a true name."
Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and find happiness. They were seven unhappy Pre-teens when they first stumbled upon the nearly unspeakable horror. it’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. IT won the British Fantasy Award in 1987 and earned nominations for both the Locus Award and the World Fantasy Award. Stephen King envisioned the IT character as a troll living in the sewer system, drawing on the idea of the troll under the bridge from the children's story "Three Billy Goats Gruff". King began writing the novel in 1981, having first conceived of the tale in 1978. The novel alternates between their childhood in 1958 and 27 years later in 1985. The Losers Club and Pennywise in the Derry Barrens One of IT’s favorite disguises is a circus clown called Pennywise, otherwise known as 'Bob Gray'. IT tells the story of seven friends who face an evil shapeshiftng entity that feeds on the fears of children.
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