IT Chapter Two
(Netflix)
27 years after the gang of boys (plus one girl) put a stop to Pennywise, the killer clown, he reappears in Derry (Maine) to start another wave of killing. Only Ben (Isaiah Mustafa) is still living in Derry, but the others respond to Ben's reminder that they swore on oath to fight the demon.
The script does full justice to King’s writing style, giving each character a brief back-story, so that we get an idea of how their lives have turned out. Toward the end there are strong echoes of The Witches of Eastwick and John Carpenter’s The Thing. Stephen King makes a cameo appearance as a thrift-store owner talking to the one of the gang who’s a horror-story writer!
Yes, this is a bit too long, and there’s some repetition, but production values are high and the CGI is top-of-the-range. “Softcore” horror fans will find plenty to savor here (moderate gore).