Stephen King's IT DVD

Advantages: Nice performances from the child cast
Disadvantages: Disjointed story, dire special effects and poor quality acting.

...12) Growing up Stephen King was my favourite author, until IT. I have two memories of IT one was that King had written 5 pages just explaining the plants and weeds that grew outside the sewer entrance; the second was that King spent 11 pages explaining a scene involving the character of Bev with a doorknob. I had seen it coming, King's books were getting more and more descriptive and I'd find I was missing large plotlines because he had lost my ...
...as a 2 part mini series I was really pleased. Warner Brothers had decided to turn King's latest novel "IT" into a mini series as they had nearly 15 years prior with Salem's Lot. Warner had got in quick with the bidding for the rights that no sooner had King actually started writing the novel than Warner had acquired the rights. King was releasing pages to a screenwriter in instalments to rework for the series. Over 18 months the series was made, ... Read review

Advantages: Very different to what you would expect, good story line.
Disadvantages: too long

...could have made this fantastic Stephen King novel into a better film than this. IT represents something scary and can turn into anything including a clown, ghost, monster etc. The storyline is based on a group of children who are taunted by IT in a town called Derry and evenutally they think they have killed it. However, it comes back 30 years later and the group reunite to try to defeat IT. All but one of the members has moved away from Derry and ...
...back. He must therefore contact the others as they all made a prmise that if IT ever returned, they must come back to Derry to defeat it. Some of the gruesome happenings include blood spurting from a sink, a clown entising young children into the gutter and a childs dead dad speaking to him then trying to grab him with a rotting hand. The most memorable scary part in the film is the clown which appears on a few occasions. His catchphrase to entise ... Read review

Advantages: Good film , I enjoyed IT
Disadvantages: Book's muchhh better , quite long for fidgety people :P , doesn't follow storyline

IT's actaully quite good ! A monster has been haunting Derry since the 1700's , killing kids and taking the form of what they fear the most. Seven kids try to kill IT and think they have suceeded until twenty seven years later , when IT comes back and starts killing again. The kids (who are now adults) must come back and beat it for a second time , but this time , they need to kill IT before it kills anymore. Don't make the mistake of watching ...
...much better than the film The film leaves out so much important information from the book , such as characters , attacks of IT and a lot of oher important things. The child actors I do agree are brilliant , adults weren't as convincing really ! I enjoyed the film though , it has two sides (both an hour and a half long roughly) but don't forget , this was filmed in 1990 , so some of the graphics aren't that great ! Please don't watch the film ... Read review