![]() ![]() Read more: 'It Chapter Two' is a horrifying but ultimately hollow film that's a far cry from the 2017 movieīill Hader and Finn Wolfhard play different versions of Richie in "It Chapter Two." "The next day I was pulling blood out of my eyeballs," Chastain told the host in February, subsequently clarifying that it was "fake blood" she struggled to clean off. Previously, Chastain had told Jimmy Fallon that the scene required some serious cleanup. ![]() "I love horror films, I love 'Carrie,' and I said, 'Let's make Carrie on steroids," the actress said. The scene sees Chastain's character trying not to drown in a sea of blood while also attempting to save Ben, another member of the Losers Club.Ĭhastain said during an appearance at San Diego Comic Con earlier this year that increasing the intensity of the scene was her idea. Production notes from the film revealed that 5000 gallons of fake blood were used for a scene where adult Beverly, played by Jessica Chastain, is forced via Pennywise to confront her childhood fears. Jessica Chastain plays Beverly Marsh as an adult in "It Chapter Two." It: Chapter Two is in cinemas from September 5.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]() Can they ever really escape this curse of familiarity? The kids might be adults, but just like a generation of filmmakers, they've gone and manifested the same old creaky terror. But when we finally do experience It in its pure form, this all-powerful force of light mostly just appears as a bigger, noisier clown with arachnid limbs and bad one-liners - the kind of thing Beetlejuice did weirder and funnier - when we should be shaken to our bones by some transcendent, primal phantom. The monotony is a shame considering the story's potential for evoking an evil that has lingered since time immemorial. Tender threads - like the relationship between Richie and Eddie - are all but buried by the racket. Where it might have been operatically haunting, moving even, the film is content to indulge the same old bait-and-switch horror scares, bellowing soundtrack noises, and tired fright gags (naked old women: still the peak of terror, apparently). Instead, it's a dragged-out dirge that works well enough as a carnival funhouse contraption, but only offers depressingly literal answers in lieu of ambiguity. What if the things they think happened didn't occur the way they remember them, curdled by the indifference of time and the abstraction of adult perspective? Under the sharp eye of returning Argentine director Andy Muschietti (Mama, also with Chastain) and cinematographer Checco Varese, the film teems with vivid images, and isolated moments effectively cleave toward nightmare - fortune cookies that turn into icky, rampaging critters, or an abandoned, once-thriving cinema whose smashed-up arcade games and sadly faded movie posters chart the passage of time with an eerie melancholy.īut the film casts less of a spell than its predecessor, rekindled here in sporadic flashbacks to Finn Wolfhard and co in the summer of 1989, and fumbles opportunities to really delve into the harrowing nature of trauma across decades - which, given its mammoth, Marvel-esque 170 minutes, it had more than enough space to explore.Ĭhapter Two toys with the slipperiness of memory, but doesn't find a way to interrogate it. By way of non-attendance, Stanley (Andy Bean) takes his own life, Bev claims to have visions of all of their deaths, and their teenage adversary - the mulleted, switchblade hick Henry Bowers (Teach Grant) - escapes the asylum to which he's been committed, hell-bent on seeking revenge on the gang. Meanwhile, Mike (Isaiah Mustafa), who's remained in Derry all this time and has become something of the town's unofficial historian, reconvenes the Losers' Club to do battle with Pennywise once again. The now 40-something members of the Losers' Club have long left town for successful adult lives: stuttering Bill (James McAvoy) is a hotshot Stephen King-like writer (with a mid-film cameo to prove it) trash-mouth Richie (Bill Hader) a stand-up comedian Eddie (James Ransone) sells insurance in New York formerly overweight Ben (Jay Ryan) is a handsome, chiselled architect and lone It-girl Beverly (Jessica Chastain) a fashion designer still troubled by her relationships with violent, abusive men. It's a sign that evil is back in small-town Derry, Maine, in the worst imaginable way. The film's opening moments centre on a graphic homophobic attack - with French-Canadian writer-director Xavier Dolan (Mommy) playing the victim - that will certainly be triggering for some in the audience. ![]()
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