![]() "Up until that point, I didn't know what the character actually would look like," he continued. "It was an amazing, terrifying feeling of seeing the makeup go on for the first time," Skarsgård told Us Weekly in 2017. The Swedish actor made his debut as Pennywise in the 2017 horror movie "It," based on a Stephen King novel. Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage and Warner Bros. It often indicates a user profile.īill Skarsgård starred as Pennywise in the "It" movies. The color timing leans a little more orange & blue than I recall, but I haven’t seen the movie in nearly 20 years and important stuff – like skin tones, lush greens, and poppy early ‘90s fashions – look fine.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. The second half of the mini-series also has some hot spot issues. Black levels may have been pushed a bit further than their ‘natural’ levels, which does create some crush (specifically during outdoor sunlit scenes) and may be the reason the grain cakes-up a bit during some of the darker sequences. Grain levels appear pretty accurate, based on the film’s age, though inconsistent. ![]() ![]() Details are extremely sharp and patterns are complex without any notable artifacts. That said, this is another fabulous transfer, possibly even the best of the three. I think that it’s obvious that Wallace and cinematographer Richard Leiterman were conscious of widescreen framing when they shot the movie (just employ your set’s zoom function for proof) and that the option for both the 4x3 and 16x9 transfers would’ve been ideal. I understand this created controversy among fans and that controversy appears to have convinced WB to release the Blu-ray version in 1.33:1. Like Salem’s Lot, it was originally aired at the tube television-friendly aspect ratio of 1.33:1, but, unlike Hooper’s film, it was cropped to 1.85:1 for DVD. The kid actors are also a lot more compelling than their grownup counterparts, despite the super high-calibre adult cast.Īs far as I know, It was only ever released on flipper DVD from WB. Wallace’s ambitious (for TV) and energetic direction works in the confines of this type of fantasy (as it had for his feature debut, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, 1982), but, in the context of the adult world, the stagey melodrama and overwrought characterizations are laughable at first, then boring as the movie drags on into its second half. The kid-driven sequences benefit from the ‘child logic’ of Pennywise’s frightening assaults (well, frightening when I was a kid, at least – they surely aren’t anymore). Outside of Curry, however, the mini-series hasn’t aged very well at all. I suppose his presence is just that strong. Revisiting It all these years later, I’m surprised how little screentime Curry actually has. Much of its enduring legacy is owed to Tim Curry’s indelible performance as the villain, Pennywise the Clown, who scared the bejesus out of now-adult children who happened to see the series on primetime television. 26 years later, It still stands apart from the rabble with a fervent fan-base and multiple, popular home video releases. The two-night, star-studded series was a hit and was followed closely by the likes of Golden Years (1991), John Power’s (no relation) The Tommyknockers (1993), Mick Garris’ The Stand (1994), and Tom Holland’s The Langoliers (1995). ![]() Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot (1979) may have set the precedent for the made-for-TV Stephen King mini-series, but Tommy Lee Wallace’s It (1990) set the standard. ![]()
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