HBO Max just released the first full trailer for It: Welcome to Derry, and the It prequel looks frightening. So frightening, it makes the It movies look like a children’s party!
The streamer has been pretty hush-hush about what the series will focus on besides Pennywise’s past, and now we know why. The more mysterious, the better…and creepier like the killer clown’s smile.
Welcome to Derry scares your screens starting on October 26th.
We never know what is going to come out of Stephen King’s mind, and The Long Walk is another example of that.
In a dystopian United States ruled by a totalitarian regime, a group of young men enter an annual walking contest in which they must maintain a speed of at least three miles per hour or risk execution. The contest ends when only one walker remains alive.
RULES OF THE WALK:
Total participants: 50
Required pace to maintain: 3 MPH
If participants fall below the required pace, they will get a warning. If they are unable to reach the speed within 10 seconds, they will get an additional warning.
Total warnings: 3
Note: Participants are eliminated before a 4th warning is called.
How far could you go? How far will they go? That we will find out on September 12th.
We’ve seen Pennywise terrorize the kids of Derry in It and It: Chapter Two, but that was only after he had taken several of their lives over a few decades.
This Fall, we are going to see how he terrified the town in 1962, and it is going to be even scarier than we thought.
The series is being brought to life by Andy and Barbara Muschietti, who reimagined It for the big screen. The siblings pondered Pennywise’s past, and now they are adapting that nightmare for the small screen.
It: Welcome to Derry will air on HBO and stream on Max, I mean HBO Max. I don’t know what is scarier: that Warner Bros can’t figure out what to call their streaming service or the teaser trailer. The former, definitely the former.
When I was growing up, there was a wind-up monkey that played the drums with buggy eyes and a haunting smile, and he was scary AF. So, my dad would wind him up all the time when I was sleeping and leave it on my bed to watch me get scared. Then he would laugh and laugh.
I have a feeling that Osgood Perkins’ father, Anthony Perkins, did something like to his son with Psycho.
Because why else would he turn Stephen King’s short story, The Monkey, into such a terrifying tale? But he did, and it will be hitting theaters on February 21st.
Are you going to see it? I won’t! I finally got that evil monkey out of my nightmares. I don’t want him back.
