IT: The Complete History of Pennywise | Horror History

If you want to know how Pennywise lived after the events of It, stay until the end of this video. Hello and welcome to Horror Story. My name is Professor CZsWorld, aka Shaggy, aka Emo Abraham Lincoln and in today's lesson we will discuss one of Stephen King's most iconic monsters: Pennywise, aka It, aka The Deadlights, aka Robert. Grey. Stephen King hasn't really gone on record about his inspirations for It, which has led some to believe that the events of the 1986 novel actually happened. On the other hand, really smart people were making comparisons to a serial killer, John Wayne Gacy, a birthday clown in Chicago during the 1970s who did atrocious things to over thirty victims.

He would later hide the children in his basement space, not unlike Pennywise's penchant for dragging the corpses of his victims into the sewers beneath Derry, Maine. Pennywise in the films is depicted as one of the forms of a shape-shifting creature known as It, which has resided in a lair at the bottom of Derry's sewer system for hundreds of years. But in the novel, it is much more than that, so let's go back to its beginnings, more than a billion years ago. In the beginning there was an endless void known as the macroverse, which was inhabited solely by a celestial force called "The Other".

The Other created two additional inhabitants of the macroverse, a protector named Maturin The Turtle and a shapeshifting entity called The Deadlights. The two would become natural enemies. The Turtle was kind and omniscient, but he didn't like to get involved in any conflict, so he stayed hidden in his shell most of the time. At some point, The Turtle came out of his shell with a stomach ache and vomited up our universe. Yeah, so everything you're sitting on now? Yes, that's actually vomit. Everything you ate today? I think you get the idea. Speaking of which, their main form of sustenance is fear. "I will take it.

I'll take them all. And I will feast on your flesh while I feed on your fear.” Because of that fact, he traveled to our universe in search of food, much like how I may travel to Taco Bell when I'm done filming this. A couple of thousands or possibly even millions of years ago, he discovered the Earth. The Earth was basically like a buffet to Her, because humans have a much more complex imagination than any species She had discovered before. Specifically, the imagination of human children was especially attractive to him, because they were capable of experiencing an unprecedented level of fear.

She arrived on Earth as a fiery meteoric object that crashed into the North American land that would one day be known as The Barrens in Derry, Maine. The impact scared away animal inhabitants such as antelope, fish, bats and others. The impact crater was devastating, but trees and wildlife would reclaim the area over the years. The impact also put him into a deep sleep, possibly helped by the fact that she was trapped in the ice age. In the year 1715, it would thaw and emerge from this torpor, thus marking the beginning of the cycle that would repeat approximately every 27 years, where it would awaken to feed on the fear of the residents of Derry, not unlike how some mammals do.

It can eat and then go into hibernation for the winter. These incidents often go unrecorded in Derry's

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books, but that hasn't stopped locals from doing their own research. The first known victims were a group of 340 settlers called The Derry Company, named after the town in Ireland from which they came. They began to create a civilization along the Kenduskeag River and Derry Township became a lumber town. "It still is, am I right guys?" In 1743, all the settlers disappeared without trace or explanation. "The whole camp?" "There were rumors of Indians, but there were no signs of an attack." The city was deserted, except for a single house that burned down in the same place where Georgie Denbrough would be murdered 300 years later.

I guess all of these colonists were eaten by Ella, because she had taken a very long nap after crashing on Earth, and she probably woke up especially hungry. Shortly after Derry Township was rediscovered, the town was reestablished and the canal was built to provide access to the Kenduskeag River. It seems to be at this time that she begins to experiment with using the form of a clown. An image from Will Hanlon's album dating from the 18th century shows a strange-looking man juggling bowling pins on a street near the canal. He wasn't wearing makeup, but he had recognizable locks of hair.

The next known event is in 1851, four 27-year cycles after the settlers disappeared. Their target was a man named John Markson, likely using the power of the Deadlights to possess him and do his bidding. It seems that humans who look directly at dead lights enter a trance state in which they can be controlled by It. John poisoned his entire family and then committed suicide with a nightshade fungus. Note that having someone else make his offer doesn't directly benefit him, but what he does do is instill fear in everyone involved, turning them into more delicious meals for Pennywise.

It's basically the equivalent of putting those little packets of salsa on your taco. In 1856, the image of the clown appears in a political cartoon among some drunken loggers in a bar. This illustration seems to predict the next cycle, beginning in 1877, when four separate lynchings occurred in the city, and continuing until 1879. Derry's lumber business was really booming at the time, and one group of lumberjacks ran into another group, finding them

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ly torn to pieces. Like a bear coming out of hibernation, it would continue to emerge approximately every 27 years to cause chaos and feed on the fear of the residents of Derry.

The next cycle was especially bloody. Next, we'll delve into the horrible archives produced by It in the early 20th century. I had a bunch of people enter the last giveaway and since everyone was so excited about that one, I thought, why not do another giveaway? This time you will float too, because the winner will take home this Float. Goods. To enter, be sure to follow CZsWorld on Instagram and like this post. The winner will be chosen randomly. The full rules can be found in the video description. In 1891, the Kitchener family builds a hardware store in Derry and an article appears in the newspaper about the opening of this facility.

The cover photo shows a crowd gathered to celebrate the ribbon cutting, and to the left of the crowd, a clown can be seen celebrating with a cartwheel. This would be a precursor to one of Derry's deadliest events that took place at the end of this cycle. But first, there was an important incident that took place shortly after his awakening in September 1905. The lumber business in Derry had become large enough that people began to organize unions. One of these organizers was called Claude Heroux. He and three colleagues were staying at a hotel in Derry, and during this stay, the colleagues were found dead in the Kenduskeag River with body parts missing and the word “union” plastered on each of their backs.

It is unclear if this was a result of Pennywise's actions or if they were legitimately just disgruntled workers, but Heroux, in an act of revenge, took an ax to a bar called The Silver Dollar and eliminated the loggers he believed to be there. They were responsible. That night, the townspeople rioted. After Heroux's arrest, he was dragged from his cell and lynched on the side of town. A witness mentioned that there was a guy there doing tricks and flips, who assumed he was new in town, but noticed that he seemed to stick around after that. This highlights one of Pennywise's main strengths, in addition to his fabulous gymnastic skills: he has the ability to divide people and turn them against each other.

He would later try to use this tactic on the Losers' Club after Eddie Kaspbrak suffered a broken arm, but his strong unit ends up working to their advantage. But before we get there, there's a lot more Pennywise

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in Derry to cover. In 1906, an inexplicable series of animal mutilations occurred. Chances are these are connected to Him too. Now sometimes when you're done eating tacos, you're still a little hungry and you say, "You know what? I'm going to have a big burrito, maybe some nachos and a big drink for the road". And that's basically what Pennywise did before going back into hibernation.

On Easter 1906, the aforementioned blacksmith shop hosted an Easter egg hunt for all the children of Derry during which the place exploded, leaving 102 dead, 88 of whom were children. At this point, it is very clear that, A: there is a problem affecting Derry, and B: it is occurring on a 27-year cycle, although only a select number of Derry historians are aware of this because Pennywise has actively used his power to ensure these disasters stay out of the news. The disasters that occurred thereafter were largely ignored by the older people of the town, who were becoming discouraged and preferred to ignore the problems rather than acknowledge them.

It's starting to look like Derry is cursed by random acts of violence, but there's no doubt that's behind them. In 1929, the famous Bradley Gang was shot dead by a large group of citizens, and several witnesses are said to have seen a clown participating in the brutal shooting. It probably looked like something out of The Dark Knight, minus the school bus…. Each of the witnesses to the Bradley Gang execution claimed that the clown had the same gun as them, although none of them shared the same gun. In 1930 the first sighting of one of the other recurring forms of It was confirmed.

The giant bird that would later attack Michael Hanlon was first seen 28 years earlier by his father Will Hanlon. This happened the night of the horrific attack on The Black Spot nightclub, in which a racist organization called the Legion of White Decency burned down the popular African-American-run jazz venue and the place collapsed before dozens of people had a chance to escape. Just after narrowly making out it, Will looked up and saw a giant bird with red balloons tied to its wings, a detail he kept to himself until he was at his deathbed. From now on, Will knew that Derry was no ordinary city, but he would never fully understand that he was responsible, as his son would one day discover.

The following year there was one of the worst floods in the city's history. This flood was almost as bad as the flood that happened in my comments section that time when my shirt was wrinkled, and this flood, not coincidentally, took place during one of Pennywise's waking years. Stephen King doesn't specifically state when the sewer system that runs beneath Derry was built, but there's a good chance, based on when certain laws went into effect in real life, that it was around the time of this great flood in the book. While these systems may have been put in place to prevent water levels from overflowing and prevent another disastrous flood, they would inadvertently become the home of Pennywise, who built his lair deep in the sewers beneath Derry.

As of this moment, future sightings of Pennywise the Dancing Clown are all connected to the sewer system, whether it's a creepy voice echoing down a drain, a pair of glowing yellow eyes emanating from a sewer grate, or a mysterious globe. red floating in a drain pipe. “There has been another murder. Little Velma Daniels. “Velma Daniels?” “Her poor body of hers was found this morning by the canal. So if you come here to play, join together like you're doing now, you understand? Another image from Will Hanlon's photo album shows the celebration at Wally's Spa in 1933 when alcohol prohibition ends in the United States.

The group photo shows many men holding beer mugs and Pennywise drinking champagne from a high-heeled shoe in the corner. Pennywise continues to appear throughout Derry's history. For example, in 1945, when Japan surrendered to end World War II, a parade was held in Derry to celebrate, and in one photograph, the clown can be seen dancing in the background. In the 1950s, Pennywise would bring this same photo to life to terrorize the Loser's Club, but that is just one of the many events that took place after the tragic incident involving Georgie Denbrough in 1957. Below we will analyze one of the most famous cycles. dark details of his history in Derry and the reasons behind the interruption of this particular spree.

It was a rainy day in October 1957. Naturally, when she was 6 years old, Georgie Denbrough wanted to go out and play there. She dressed in her yellow raincoat and asked her older brother Bill to make her a paper boat. "There you go". The ship waspushed down the gutter of the Derry Public Works drainage system, managed by his father, Zack Denbrough. The boat began to gain speed and, not wanting to lose it, little Georgie ran after it, not knowing that he was hurtling towards his own watery grave. He was unable to grab his boat before he was dragged into the sewer, where a man in clown makeup introduced himself as Mr.

Robert Gray, also known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Pennywise didn't immediately become aggressive; First, he befriended Georgie and tempted him to reach into the grate and take the boat from him. This is why the shapeshifter often chose to use the clown form: Pennywise, because most kids love clowns... or at least they did back then before THESE came out. .. Today it would probably take the form of some Fortnite YouTuber or something. But he would use Pennywise's shape to appeal to children, because children have the most active imaginations and therefore prepare the tastiest meals for him. Once he lures them in, he takes out his throbbing eyes and sharp teeth and devours them as they become more afraid.

Again, very similar to what I do when I devour my tacos. That is the fate of young Georgie, who is the first in a series of deaths and disappearances at the hands of It. The next was Betty Ripsom in December 1957. Pennywise spoke to her through the drain of her house to scare her before attack and leave his body mangled near Outer Jackson Street. “Don't tell me it's…” “Whose shoe is it?” "It's from Betty Ripsom." Betty's screams continued to echo through the drains and torment her parents for the rest of this waking cycle. The following month, when school returns, Ben Hanscom sees the clown standing on the ice as he walks on the canal bridge and Pennywise entices him to go down into the sewers with the prospect of balloons, the promise of never growing up. and make it look like the sewers are basically a fun fair.

A hand reaches out toward the bridge and Ben recognizes it as the mummy from the

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movie, The Mummy, but dressed in a clown suit. Ben manages to escape, but the same cannot be said for Cheryl Lamonica, who falls victim to Pennywise in April. Then, in late April, Pennywise kidnaps a three-year-old boy named Matthew Clements while he was riding his tricycle around the house, causing the police chief to set a curfew. Before the end of that spring, Mike Hanlon rides his bicycle to the remains of the foundry that exploded in 1906, where he is attacked by a giant bird, which emerges from the basement hole and swoops down to try to pick him up.

This is the same bird his father saw after the Black Spot fire, and it combines Mike's fear of birds when he attacked them in his crib when he was a baby, and the fear he instilled in him the night before. the film Rodan. *ROLL SCREECH* Reminds me of the sound my 8th grade English teacher used to use if you didn't have proper MLA format. Mike is able to escape by getting into the remains of the chimney where the bird couldn't fit and throwing the tiles that were lying around at it. Mike feels some kind of force that “helps” him throw the chips harder, which I think may have been the Turtle.

It was also around this time that Stan Uris had his encounter with It. He had been bird watching in the park near Standpipe, a water tank in which some children had drowned in the 1930s. He hears a loud noise and notices that a door at the base of the standpipe had opened. suddenly. He approaches to investigate when he hears carnival music echoing in the darkness. Soft footsteps approach him. Stan calls to ask who is there and gets the answer: "the dead." Before escaping, he sees the figures of drowned children wearing purple black jeans and orange pompom buttons.

Stan's friend Eddie Kaspbrak has a similar experience with It. Eddie sometimes played in the train yard, and one day a homeless man with leprosy comes out from the porch of an old abandoned house, 29 Neibolt Street. Eddie is a hypochondriac, so this has a major effect on him. He uses this fact to his advantage when he devises a way to scare Eddie. One day, Eddie decides to check under the porch to make sure no one is waiting for him there and sees him in a similar form to the homeless man, but now riddled with illness and wearing the silver clown suit.

The Leper introduces himself as Bob Gray and comes out from under the porch to scare Eddie away. Even though these four victims escaped, Pennywise would continue to haunt them in her dreams. One night, as Eddie goes to bed, he hears the leper whisper, "It won't do any good to run." Then, in early summer, Ben has a dream in which he plays baseball and hits a home run. As he rounds the bases, he sees a clown waving at him through the trees. He doesn't remember the rest of the dream, but he wakes up with a wet pillow, as if he had been crying all night.

He is doing everything in his power to instill fear in these members of the Losers Club who escaped on the first try, but what would happen that summer would take things to a level never before seen in Derry's history. Since the death of his younger brother Georgie, Bill Denbrough has had many disturbing thoughts. In June 1958, Bill walked into Georgie's room to look at her photo album and, under the influence of It, Georgie's school photo winks at Bill and says, "See you soon." Bill drops the book and blood drips from the pages, but Bill's parents couldn't see the blood like the children of Derry can.

This kicks off Pennywise's busiest month yet. Another boy disappears, this one named Edward Corcoran. Edward was fleeing his abusive father and decided to sleep in the park by the canal, where someone grabbed his ankle. He takes the form of Edward's dead brother, Dorsey. When Edward ran, he took the form of The Creature from the Black Lagoon. The last thing he sees is the creature's eyes turning white and a light filtering through the fins on his head; most likely Edward was trying to process the Deadlights. Shortly after, Mike Hanlon finds Edward's knife near the place where he died.

He hears a splash coming from the canal and sees something moving inside a pipe. Mike runs away, but he has the feeling that someone is chasing him all the time. He would continue to share his experiences with the rest of the Loser's Club, who also explain his encounters. When Bill tells the story of him finding Georgie's photo book, Richie Tozier says that he wants to see the album too, so Bill takes him there, only to discover that Georgie's school photo is not in the book. book. Instead, there's a photo of old Derry, somewhere near the canal, and Bill and Richie see themselves as a sailor couple on the sidewalk.

The image begins to move and Pennywise appears outside the channel, but it has Georgie's face. See? These deepfakes are becoming too good... oh wait, bad... century. At this point, the real Bill Denbrough reaches into the photo, before Richie pulls his arm out of the way and closes the book. Bill's hand is bleeding. This scene foreshadows the final confrontation with Pennywise. Bill and Richie have always been the ones to directly confront Pennywise. An important distinction is that they are not the only ones fighting back, but they are the two who are willing to take the fight to her domain.

This incident also marks the first time that Richie begins to realize that he is a monster with supernatural rather than physical properties. Bill and Richie would take the fight back to Pennywise's domain when they decide to go to 29 Neibolt Street to investigate Eddie's story about the Leper. They go up to the basement, and this time he takes the form of the teenage werewolf that Richie saw when he and some others went to the movies. I feel like I'd start laughing if my worst fear kept turning into these cheesy '50s

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movies. I can imagine... oh no, please don't kill me, and then the monster turns into... like this type.

I would be laughing out loud, but I'm sure it was pretty scary at the time. Bill brings his father's gun, but what ends up hurting Pennywise more than the gun is Richie yelling at him in his Irish cop voice and throwing dust at him to sneeze at. This is because it operates on the basis of belief. Just as their fear makes them juicier targets, their confidence and childish humor can be used to fight it. By using the voice of an authority figure and attacking the werewolf with something he believed would work, he is fighting with the most powerful weapon he has: his imagination. "Imagination!" As they ride away on Bill's bike, the clown chases after them, wearing the same Derry High School jacket that the werewolf was wearing moments before.

It's not very clear in the book if he's also wearing the clown suit, or if he's just naked under the jacket... Actually, I think I'll try not to think about it. When they look back later, Pennywise has disappeared, presumably taking refuge in a storm drain. As we approach the end of June, Pennywise claims a new victim, Veronica Grogan, a fourth grade student at Neibolt Church Street School. Veronica would be one of the voices that Beverly Marsh hears coming out of her drain that same week, along with the other victims such as Matthew Clements and Betty Ripsom.

The drain spews blood at her, but like the blood on Georgie's album, her father can't see it. He tells Beverly that she will die if she tries to fight, then the sink bursts into blood again. The final incident in June occurs when Richie Tozier flees from some thugs and wanders into City Center Park, where there is a statue of Paul Bunyan used to commemorate Derry's beginnings as a logging town. The statue comes to life and looks Richie in the face, threatening to eat him. Moments after running towards him, Paul Bunyan destroys the bench Richie had just been sitting on with his giant axe.

At the time, Richie attributes this to some sort of strange dream, but would later realize that it was one of many forms of it. Not much happens in the early days of July, other than Eddie Kaspbrak momentarily having a vision of a piranha with orange pom-pom buttons while he was playing on the moors. The slow period is probably because it is preparing to feast on a day when the children of Derry would come out in droves: the Fourth of July, also known as American Independence Day. It's a shame it wasn't with Cinco de Mayo, it would have been perfect for this taco analogy I have.

The 4th of July would be the first time Mike would see him in the form of Pennywise. He was playing in the marching band and saw the clown handing out balloons to children on the street. Seeing Pennywise greeting him gave him a similar feeling to meeting the bird. Then, walking up the hill, he saw Pennywise again and wondered how she could have gotten there so quickly. This time, some of the kids he was handing out balloons to were crying, and again, Mike had a bad feeling as he recognized the same clown from all those old photos in his dad's album.

That day most likely claimed the life of young Jimmy Cullum, and the rain would push his body into the sunlight two days later, on July 6. They eventually found him with peck wounds all over his body, something Mike would connect to his encounter with the bird. Jimmy would be It's latest random victim that summer; From then on, he would exclusively go after Bill Denbrough and his gang of misfits or Henry Bowers and his gang of thugs. One of the most notorious bullies in all of Derry, perhaps even more feared than Henry Bowers himself, was 12-year-old Patrick Hockstetter.

However, even a sociopath like Patrick had his own fears to take advantage of: Patrick developed a fear of leeches while visiting Brewster Lake when he was 7 years old. During the summer, when Patrick was 12, he ambushed him at the junkyard, where he often went to deposit dogs and cats that he had killed around town in a discarded refrigerator. To his surprise, these leeches were also able to fly. Maybe Patrick was so crazy that leeches were the only semblance of true fear he could find in him, because while he was being attacked, he saw a figure standing there.

He was described as having his face dripping like wax, as if he didn't know what he wanted to be. This is the only known case that gives a real idea of ​​what he would look like when switching between forms. Patrick would eventually pass out from blood loss, only to wake up as he began to devour him. Beverly Marsh sees this incident with the leeches as it happens, and after she takes Patrick away, she hears Pennywise's laughter reverberating from an underground pumping station. Four hours later, she takes all of her friends to investigate, where they find a message written inside the refrigerator in blood that says: "Stop now, before I kill you all, a wise word from your friend Pennywise." Pennywise leaves The Losers a second warning, because at this point each of them had survived at least once, and the slightest hint of doubt begins to manifest within the ancient creature.

This time, Mike borrows his father's Derry photo album, in which he recognized the clown in the background in all those old photos. HEThey stop at the photo of the World War II parade and, just like the photo that appeared in Georgie's photo album, this one also begins to move, only this time, instead of Bill reaching for the image, Pennywise runs towards them and remains still. a light pole in the foreground, once again threatening to kill them all, his nose pressing against the plastic in which the photo had been encased. He quickly shapeshifted into some of his fears: Richie's werewolf, Eddie's leper, Ben's mummy, and Stan's dead man. guys, at which point Stan slams the album shut.

That's when Bill starts to realize the truth: he's afraid of them. What Bill has not yet discovered is that he is especially afraid of the power of his drive, and that is why his next move is against Eddie, while he is alone and at his weakest point. On July 20, 1958, Henry Bowers and his friends chase Eddie and break his arm. Eddie comes to during the ambulance ride and briefly sees Pennywise behind the wheel. That night, Eddie dreams of his overprotective mother scolding his friends who come to visit him at the hospital, telling them that he no longer wants to be friends with him, which parallels a conversation that occurs at the same time in his life. real.

In the dream, Pennywise is also in the hospital waiting room, dancing wildly to celebrate the breakup of the Losers' Club. The real-life version of the conversation is essentially the same, and probably had some kind of influence on Mrs. Kaspbrak to encourage her to try to cut Eddie's friends out of her life, and this is further suggested in the last image Eddie sees in the dream: He switches between the many shapes, the last of which has his mother's face. The incident causes some confusion within the group of friends, but that doesn't stop them from coming together to face it once again.

On July 25, the 7 Losers arrive at 29 Neibolt. Each of them reacts differently to the house depending on their own fears. Upon entering, they find a white clown glove. They go upstairs, where they find a dirty magazine that winks at Ben. The hallways they pass through shrink before them and the eyes of the elves glued to the wallpaper begin to bleed. He is doing everything he can to scare them away without having to confront them directly. They are met with three doors. The first contains a bed that explodes and oozes black liquid. The second one sounds like it has an insect buzzing loudly behind it, but turns out to be just a moose blower, which is essentially a can that makes a constant noise like some kind of sonic scarecrow for farmers.

The third door is just a bathroom, but the toilet appears to have exploded, leaving shards of white porcelain scattered around the room. He quickly climbs up the pipe in what Ben perceives to be his own form, which we know is: Deadlights. He explodes out of the pipe taking the form of a werewolf and attacking Bill and Ben. Beverly counterattacks with the slingshot loaded with silver ball bearings, which they believe is effective based on the werewolf movies they have seen. She hits the It in the snout with her last shot, sending blood everywhere. However, the losers are now helpless.

With no ammo left, Bev pulls back the slingshot again and uses her belief to try to scare him, sending him diving back into the drain screaming, "I'll kill you all!" "I will kill everyone!" Not much happens in the next two weeks leading up to the big showdown, but there is some activity on the part of It, who is now more afraid than ever of the Losers Club and its power. He decides to bring in a new ally, one who won't be limited solely by the power of fear. So he teams up with the Losers' next biggest enemy: Henry Bowers.

After losing the knife Henry had attacked Ben with on the last day of school, Henry needed a new weapon. In early August, he saw some red balloons tied to his mailbox with the Losers' faces on each balloon. The balloons popped and the mailbox lowered to show him the package. It was a knife. The return address simply said: Robert Grey. After this, Henry began hearing voices from the moon, ordering him to kill his father and then telling him to get Victor and Belch to help him pursue Beverly Marsh. They end up chasing the Losers to a pumping station in The Barrens, which is connected to the sewer system where he lives.

Victor and Belch reluctantly go downstairs with Henry. Personally, I think he senses his reluctance and decides to take them out, first using Frankenstein's monster form to decapitate Victor and then splitting Belch's face in half when he tries to fight back. Henry chases after the losers, leaving Belch to die at the hands of It. The losers try to find his lair, leaving Eddie to lead the way with his impeccable sense of direction. However, they are cut by It into the shape of a giant eye that resembles the monster from a movie Richie had seen called The Crawling Eye.

I have to admit, that actually sounds a little scary. Each of them is grabbed by one of the eye's six tentacles, except Eddie, who pretends that his asthma aspirator is battery acid and sprays the eye with it to help scare it away. They are then attacked by the giant bird form, but Stan uses his extensive knowledge of birds to determine that it is not a real bird, and Stan's failure to believe in it weakens the monster once again. The seven arrive at a door containing It's lair: a cathedral-like chamber covered in cobwebs. It is here that they find their true form, an endless, hairy crawling form composed of light, which their human minds can only interpret as a giant spider, so that is what everyone sees, much to the dismay of television audiences.

She goes after his leader, Bill, throwing him out of his physical body for a mental confrontation in what Stephen King describes as the ballroom of eternity. The Turtle catches Bill, but tells him that he is not participating in the conflict and that Bill must fight alone. Bill then uses his mind to engage in something known as The Ritual of Chud, then shouts the line: "he pushes his fists against the posts and still insists that he sees ghosts", a phrase that was supposed to help him get over his stammering. . "He pushes his fists against the posts and still insists that he sees ghosts." Bill uses his faith in all the childish things he believes in to mentally latch onto his mind and pull himself back into the real world.

He yells at Bill to let him go as he rejoins his circle of friends in the real world. The Spider flees into the depths of his lair, and Eddie tells everyone that he could hear her and that he was dying. All they could do was hope that they had defeated the monster stalking Derry and killed it. They make a blood pact to return to finish the job if he ever gets back up. Thus, the 1957-1958 cycle ends prematurely, falling asleep early after the defeat at the hands of the Losers Club. But as always, 27 years after the awakening of 1957, he would return with vengeance on the people of Derry and those who had defeated him so many years before.

In July 1984 a festival was held to celebrate the anniversary of the Derry canal. At the festival there is a small dispute between two parties. On one side are the three boys Steve Dubay, John Garton and Christopher Unwin. They were harassing a gay couple: Don Haggerty and Adrian Mellon. The police break up the initial dispute, but they have another confrontation later, where Garton and Dubay throw Mellon off a bridge where Pennywise the Clown waits below. Mellon might have survived the fall, but Pennywise drags him under the bridge and bites his armpit with his enormous teeth. At this moment, thousands of I ❤️ Derry balloons, similar to the balloon Mellon had previously held at the Derry Canal Days Festival, emerge and hit the bottom of the bridge.

Mellon's body was found with stab wounds, bite marks and a missing armpit. The return of Pennywise parallels many of the other tragedies that have occurred in Derry over the past 300 years in one important respect: the incident is largely ignored by witnesses and the media. However, this time there is one person who is of special interest: the town's librarian, Michael Hanlon, one of the Losers who stayed in Derry all these years to keep an eye on it, in case the creature ever returned. Mike wanted to be sure he was back before contacting his old friends. He stood by as Pennywise claimed the life of Lisa Albrecht on October 18 and then Steven Johnson in Memorial Park near the end of the year.

On February 14, 1985, two more children disappeared: Dennis Torio and Lori Anne Winterbarger. Dennis' body was found in The Barrens with a photo of Georgie Denbrough. This is the same photo that disappeared from the photo album when Bill and Richie went searching in 1958. By March, Mike is pretty convinced that he has returned, but wants to have proof before alerting the others. The bodies continue to pile up. Dawn Roy, a 13-year-old girl, is found decapitated in McCairn Park. On April 24, Pennywise kills and maims 16-year-old Adam Terrault. Two weeks later, on May 6, Pennywise emerges through the pipes when 2-year-old Frederick Cowan uses the bathroom and drowns him in the toilet bowl.

His mother was outside and she heard screams, repeated flushing of the toilet, and laughter that did not sound human. When she found her son, they had to take her to a mental hospital in Bangor. Just a week after that, Jeffrey Hollie was found mangled in Bassie Park, near the canal. John Fury and Jerry Bellwood, two fifth-grade classmates, were murdered before the end of May. Fury was found with his legs torn off under the porch at 29 Neibolt Street and Bellwood was found near a cement retaining wall on Kansas Street with the words "come home" written over and over in blood - a direct message to Mike, who will soon make the six phone calls to remind his friends of the promise they once made.

The news was too much for Stan, who took his own life. Meanwhile, he would also be calling on an old friend. Henry Bowers, who was sitting in the Juniper Hill mental asylum, began to hear the familiar voice of Pennywise speaking to him across the moon. When the remaining Losers meet again at a Chinese restaurant upon returning to Derry, Pennywise leaves them warnings on their fortune cookies that include eyes, bugs, blood, and more. This is a symbolic way of telling them that they will meet an unhappy fate if they try to fight. The Losers take individual walks around the city as they wait for the memories of the summer of '58 to return.

During this time, Pennywise terrorizes each of them with the belief that they will not be able to win like before. I think the reason he becomes so confident is a combination of factors. The Losers grew up, lost their imagination, lost one of their members (Stan), and forgot about Derry for the most part. However, one thing I think she didn't account for was the fact that, even though they are getting older, many of them still work in creative fields. Beverly designs dresses, Ben designs buildings, Richie is a radio DJ known for his creative vocals, and Bill is a fiction author, a concept that those people who think Pennywise is real don't seem to understand.

Each of the Losers goes somewhere they used to hang out in Derry. Ben visits the library where Pennywise taunts him from the landing. “Excuse me sir, do you have Prince Albert in a can? You do? Well, you better let the poor thing out. HOO HEH! HOO HE! HOO HEH!” I love that part. She also scared Ben by using Dracula's form and taunting him about Stan's death. Before disappearing, he leaves a balloon with a message: “Have a good day, tonight you die.” In the movie, Pennywise spends more time warning the losers to get out of town, which I don't really find fits the character that much, because in the novel he comes back and wants revenge on those who bested him, so it doesn't really fit. it would make sense that he would lure them all back there and then make them leave again.

Eddie walks down memory lane...not down memory lane because that's probably not a real place, but rather down West Broadway, where he comes across the Tracker Bros. truck depot, or at least what it is. remains of him. This was where kids used to play baseball. Eddie sees a leper version of Belch Huggins climb the fence. Then the squares of canvas they used to use as bases fly into the air and chase after him. Tony Tracker, one of the co-owners of the warehouse, comes out of the ground at home plate. Eddie also sees a zombie version of his and Patrick Hockstetter's childhood crush, Greta Bowie.

Beverly returns to her old apartment to see if her father is still there, but a woman named Mrs. Kersh has taken up residence at her residence and invites her to tea. Mrs. Kersh begins to rot before her eyes, before letting go of the fact that her father was Robert Gray, also known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. She also realizes that the tea she's drinking tastes like sewer shit, and that's when her sister snapped... that meme will probably be so outdated by the time this video comes out... Mrs. Kersh becomes witch and chases Beverlywhile the whole place turns into candy like Hansel and Gretel's house.

As she runs away, she hears her father's voice calling out to her, but when she turns around, she sees the clown holding a child's detached leg. There is also a balloon, with the words “It Came From Outer Space”, the name of a horror film from the 1950s that also works with the origin of It. Of it... by Stephen King. While I could probably go on about how many times I've had trouble trying to distinguish the monster That from the word that, let's move on to Richie Tozier. Richie returns to downtown, where the Paul Bunyan statue turns into Pennywise holding two balloons, one of which says "Richie Tozier's All-Dead Rock Show." Pennywise tells him that the eye is waiting for him below, a reference to the Crawling Eye they encountered on their first trip to the sewers.

He looks up again and the clown has been replaced by a statue of Buddy Holly, and looking at it now, it's interesting to note that Pennywise the Clown looked like Buddy Holly about nine years before anyone knew who Rivers Cuomo was. Richie feels a sharp pain in his eyes, possibly a connection to the smoke in his eyes during the smoke hole ritual they did when they were children. He gets his contacts back to normal, and yes, this is me blinking for everyone who comments and says I never blink. and everything goes back to normal, but he still hears Pennywise's laugh in the back of his head.

That same night, Victor Criss takes steps to break Henry out of the asylum. However, Victor's body still has Pennywise's voice, and he explains that Henry must kill the Losers because Henry can hurt them regardless of whether they believe in him or fear him. To escape, they must first get past one of Juniper Hill's guards, John Koontz. He first attacks him using Pennywise's form, then turns into a giant dog, which is a Doberman, just like the asylum's guard dogs, and kills Koontz. That night, the Losers gather again in the library, where he taunts them with strange visions, including one of 11-year-old Stan's head, which is stuffed with feathers, possibly a reference to his frequently used bird form. . "I finally made it, guys.

Now I'm in Deadlights. And you know what? It's true what they say. We all float down here. And you will too. In fact... THEY ALL FLOAT! Their eyes open, and they're Pennywise's eyes. The head explodes, leaving a mess of blood. The losers decide to call it a night, but Henry Bowers has other ideas and attacks Mike, who is finishing up in the library, as he wanders the streets at . 2 in the morning, he sees a sewer grate with a balloon tied to it. Don't waste time with Henry because the voice inside his head tells him that they have sent him a ride and a 1958 Plymouth Fury pulls up.

I know this one. It's not an episode of Things You Missed, this is Horror Story, but let me give you a treat anyway: the car matches Christine's description from another Stephen book... Christine's zombie version of Belch who doesn't talk for long! the whole car ride until the end, when Pennywise's voice comes out of his mouth and tells him to shut up and take the losers. I can only imagine what kind of review Henry would have left about the zombie Uber. Henry would go to the hotel and manage to hurt Eddie Kaspbrak, just as he did in 1958, but in 1985, he had one more trick up his sleeve that NO member of the Losers Club could have seen coming before the final showdown.

Beverly Marsh never really escaped her abusive father. Yes, she left Derry and yes, that was the last time she spoke to her father. But Beverly ended up falling into the same old trap again when she married a man named Tom Rogan, who treated her even worse than Al Marsh. Tom was able to determine Beverly's location after she left him to meet up with her childhood friends in Derry, and woke up at a Holiday Inn in Maine, where he found a balloon tied to the doorknob. her bath. His voice spoke to her through the globe and told her to carry out his orders.

At this point, I think it's important to look back at her human servants. The fact that she is able to manipulate some people into doing her bidding, but not others, is interesting to me. In fact, it seems that she is only able to manipulate people who already have a lot of evil in them. There is also a manipulative nurse later named Mark Lamonica, the brother of Sheryl Lamonica who was murdered in 1958. She sends him with a scalpel to try to take down Mike in the hospital, and King describes him as an easy man. target for it because he is a drug addict.

On the other hand, it seems that his rival, the Turtle, is capable of manipulating good people. Members of the Losers' Club often describe some kind of aid that helps them, such as when Mike throws the chips at the bird and feels something "helping" him throw them harder than usual. Now, if we could just get the Cubs bullpen to get a little help from The Turtle, then we'd really be in business... But Beverly's husband, Tom, isn't the only spouse who followed his partner to Derry, because Bill's wife, Audra, also made the trip. To secure her chance for revenge, he uses Tom to capture Audra and take her to the sewers, leaving her purse at the foot of the pumping station as bait for Bill.

Because of this, he, Eddie, Ben, Beverly, and Richie must confront him before they are ready, and this time, they are on a rescue mission. Even with everything turned in his favor; Even with only 5 losers to kill now instead of 7, he becomes afraid again when they approach, so Pennywise tries to intimidate them some more on their trip to the Barrens. Pennywise speaks through the car radio and first reads an ad for the Richie Tozier All Dead Rock Show. Then Georgie's voice berates Bill, saying, "You let that kill me!" They turned off the radio, which must have been a good indicator that Bill was still quite unnerved by the idea that he could have been partially responsible for what happened to Georgie.

I think it's for this reason that the first form the adult losers encounter after going down into the sewers is Bill's little brother. Bill begins to feel guilty and feels that he should have been the one to die. The others need him to realize that Georgie isn't real, and he can do this by repeating the line: "she pushes her fist against the posts and still insists that she sees ghosts." Just like last time, this hurts Him, and He retreats into the inner sanctum. You may have noticed throughout this video that I refer to It using female pronouns.

There's a reason for this, and when they reach the inner lair at the heart of the sewer system, they discover that the Deadlights they interpret as a spider have an egg sac. She is female and pregnant. I think I have serious doubts about who, in her right mind, would have gotten him pregnant. but... Actually, let's try not to think about it. Once again, she goes after Bill, which, if you think about it, makes sense; he is the leader, he is probably the biggest threat to It, since he became a writer and is still flowing with creativity and it is his wife who has been captured, so he is the most motivated.

Just like when they were young, Bill leaves his physical body and enters the void. He tells him that The Turtle is dead and that this time he won't be able to help him, which he at first doesn't believe, but then concludes is true when they pass by The Turtle's empty shell. Bill tried to mentally grab his tongue like he had done during the Ritual of Chud when they were children, but this time he fails and sinks deeper into the void. In the physical chamber, Richie realizes something is wrong and confronts the spider using his Irish cop voice.

Richie is then also thrown into the cosmic void and is able to successfully participate in the Ritual of Chud. Richie takes Bill's hand and threatens to kill her if he doesn't bring them back to the real world. They almost lose control over Him, but are able to safely return to His physical bodies. Just before arriving, Eddie is trying to hurt The Spider with his vacuum cleaner like he did in 1958, but when he returns to the spider's physical body, he bites and tears off Eddie's arm before retreating into the dark. depths of the lair. This time, Richie and Bill don't want to let him get away again.

Just as they chased it to 29 Neibolt Street when they were children, they follow the spider even further into the darkness. Beverly stops to comfort Eddie in his final moments, while Ben finds the trail of eggs It left and, one by one, tries to stomp them all. He was now more afraid than ever. He sensed Richie and Bill's pursuit. He felt the death of his young woman. And he started to turn white. He turned to Richie and Bill, who were now beginning to release the Deadlights within. The spider creature begged them to let it go, offering them power, success, and the prospect of living 500 years.

Bill and Richie began to feel the power of the “other.” It's not her, not the Turtle, but the celestial force that I mentioned a lot at the beginning of this video (before I even started talking about tacos) that created them both. Bill hears the sound of The Spider's heart now beating like a huge drum. He punches his way through, reaches for the heart, and crushes it in his hand. The creature shook and shuddered, and as she died, the light went out. Bill heard the Other's voice saying, "Son, you did very well." Richie basically passed out at this point.

Ben had finished stomping over 100 eggs and thinks he got them all. Audra falls from the net to which she is tied and lies crumpled on the ground in a catatonic state. Eddie has died and Beverly's pack of matches is her only source of light and hope to get out of it. Meanwhile, a huge storm is brewing upon them over Derry, and the flooding that would occur is a metaphorical washout of all the bad history the city had endured over the roughly 300 years of its existence. The flood would end up destroying much of Main Street and all the buildings near the canal were washed away.

The losers were able to climb straight out of the destroyed sewer pipes to the street above. As they left Derry, their memories of everything that had happened between them and It began to fade once again, but this time, even Mike, who was still recovering in the hospital, would lose his memories of the horrible events that took place. in and under Derry Maine. At this point in the story, It, the creature that had caused so much pain and claimed so many lives, is widely believed to be dead. However, some might say that is simply not true. Stephen King would write many more novels that take place in or reference the city of Derry, and some of them seem to imply that the battle with the Losers Club in 1985 was not the end of Pennywise.

A few years pass before the events of Stephen King's 1987 book, The Tommyknockers, where an extraterrestrial intelligence possesses the nearby village of Haven, Maine. A fifteen-year-old boy named Tommy Jacklin is sent with 13-year-old Hester Brookline to recover as many car batteries as they can. During the stop in Derry, Tommy notices a clown with shiny silver dollars for eyes staring at him through an open manhole. He ignores it as an effect of the alien's mutations in his mind, but more than a decade later, in 2001, more evidence would arrive. Dreamcatcher is another alien possession novel by Stephen King in which a character named Mr.

Gray, which in itself could be a nod to It's human form Robert Gray, encounters the former Derry standpipe, the water storage structure that was destroyed in the flood at the end of It in 1985. There is now a monument in its place. . He says: “TO THOSE LOST IN THE STORM. MAY 31, 1985. AND THE CHILDREN. ALL THE CHILDREN. LOVE FROM BILL, BEN, BEN, EDDIE, RICHIE, STAN, MIKE. THE LOSERS CLUB.” But there is another message, which has been spray painted in jagged red letters on the top of the monument, which reads: “PENNYWISE LIVES.” This is pretty solid evidence that Pennywise still lives in Derry, because most of the city doesn't know who Pennywise is, and those who do know have no reason to deface this monument, like Pennywise does.

But how does Pennywise live? It was quite clear that Deadlights faded and the marks of her disappeared from the door that led to the spiders' lair. Some believe that the 27-year cycle simply cannot be stopped: that the Losers Club never had the ability to kill him to begin with and that Pennywise simply went back to sleep. However, I have a different theory. At the end of the battle in 1985, Richie and Bill finish off the spider while Ben stomps on all the eggs, using only a pack of matches to find and crush them all. When they meet again, Ben tells them. “I eliminated more than a hundred. “I think I have them all.” “I pray to God you did.” Richie tells him.

They then flee from the chamber. It seems quite inconclusive to me. There's even a thought about Ben earlier, since he's stepping on all of them. "How many? How many eggs? Didn't I read that spiders can lay thousands... or millions?" So I would theorize that at least one of these eggs went unnoticed and was reborn into a new physical body. This new one would also have the ability to shapeshift and could therefore also take on the exact same form as.Pennywise. It also makes sense that the new It would use this form again, because he seems to know everything about what's going on in Derry and might get the idea that the kids in the city are afraid of this clown.

There is other possible evidence that Pennywise lives in Stephen King's 2014 book, Mr Mercedes. This one takes place not in Derry, but in Cleveland, Ohio, where a serial killer uses a clown mask to hide. One of the characters compares it to “the TV movie about the clown in the sewers.” He's talking about the TV miniseries adaptation of It that came out in 1990. So, apparently this adaptation also exists in Stephen King's universe, but you'd have to think that for that to be possible, someone somewhere had to have seen the real Pennywise and I've been inspired by him, so I see this as further proof that Pennywise is alive, probably as one of the forms of the new It, after the events of the novel It.

So what does this have in store for us? the future? Could we one day see a sequel to It? During a Reddit AMA in 2013, Stephen King addresses the issue. “I don't think I can bear to deal with Pennywise again. Too scary, even for me.” So maybe we'll continue to see Pennywise lurking in the shadows in some of King's future works, or maybe he'll change his mind after seeing how much people love the 2017 and 2019 It adaptations. Let me know what you think of the comments. Click the playlist on the left to see the full story of some of the other It characters and remember to subscribe to CZsWorld for new horrors every week, ring the death bell for notifications and I'll see you next time .

Assuming we both survive.