![]() All of those feelings, like the memories of what occured in the summer of 1989, come rushing back to Richie when he returns to Derry. The movie never outright says so, but strongly suggests that Richie is gay and was in love with Eddie as a boy. In fact, the clown torments Richie any chance he gets, pushing him to tell everyone the truth. ![]() Throughout its almost-three-hour runtime, the movie alludes to Richie’s personal life and how he’s keeping a big secret that only Pennywise knows. After all, Eddie is Richie’s very best friend…and perhaps more than that. Unfortunately, that means leaving Eddie’s body behind, something Richie is unwilling to do at first. The monster’s lair begins to collapse and the group has to make a run for it before it all comes crashing down on top of them. With It defeated, things are now all peachy for the Losers, right? Wrong. None of that happens in these movies and it’s probably for the best. No, stop asking about the giant turtle hippie and the tongue thing and the orgy. Bill proceeds to give It a “heart attack” by pulling out the black, dead muscle this monster calls a vital organ from Its chest and crushing it. ![]() Anyway, denying Pennywise the fear that fuels It causes Spiderwise to shrink down to a tiny little It-rachnid. The loss of Eddie emboldens the remaining Losers, who decide that they’re done being scared of the clown, the real coup de grace they surprisingly hadn’t thought of before, even though shedding their fear of the monster is how they defeated It the first time. Read More: A Haunted Tour of Doctor Sleep’s Overlook Hotel Being gifted a few dying breaths to crack a joke about Richie’s mom seems like a real mercy in comparison. After all, King kills off Eddie on the page by having Pennywise bite his arm off. It’s nice to see Eddie go out on a high note in the movie. It’s a sad end for Eddie for sure, but he dies delivering the best last words in movie history: “Hey Richie, I fucked your mom.” ![]() Bev is back in the bathroom stall where we first met her, only this time she’s drowning in a pool of blood Eddie must face the diseased monster from the first movie Ben is buried alive inside the clubhouse Bill confronts his brother Georgie in their childhood basement once and for all, and he realizes his younger sibling’s death wasn’t his fault after all.Īfter Eddie stabs It with the arrow that defeated the monster in the ’80s, he makes a fatal mistake, turning his back on Spiderwise, who skewers the germophobe in front of his best friend. The Losers have no other option but to flee, as Pennywise forces them to relive some of their worst memories. For those of you in the back, Spiderwise is actually an element from the book. So why does Mike think the ritual will work now? He surmises that the final piece of the puzzle is belief in the ritual itself, which is why he spends so much time trying to convince the others that his plan will work, tying it all up in history and prophecies. As you’d expect, the group’s very surprised when Pennywise escapes the box and morphs into a giant version of himself with goddamn spider legs, and he’s more powerful than ever. Read More: The Unexpected Return of Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep Mike lied, that’s why! Claiming to have learned the ritual from Native Americans who once fought It in the Derry of old and defeated the monster, Mike leaves out one very important detail: the first ritual went very south and Pennywise killed all of the participants. When that doesn’t work, Pennywise’s Deadlights inflating to the size of giant balloons so that the group can’t shut the box, the rest of the Losers turn to Mike to figure out why the hell their secret weapon isn’t working. Unlike in the book, in which the Ritual of Chud sends Bill on a trip to another dimension to hang out with a giant turtle god named Maturin ( read more about all that here), the movie ritual mostly involves burning tokens in a ceremonial box, holding hands, and chanting. The movie takes a complete left turn away from its source material. six adults with a secret weapon are pretty good odds, right? ![]() Still, one killer shape-shifting clown vs. This time around, they are six and not seven - since Stan the Man committed suicide at the start of the movie, but not for the reasons you’d expect (we’ll get to that). Once the group acquires the tokens they need to sacrifice in order to perform the Ritual of Chud, the Native American ritual that is allegedly the only way to kill Pennywise, they head back to the old, decrepit house on Neibolt Street, the place where they first battled the clown. ![]()
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