"The miniseries is successful in many ways - there are several chilling sequences - but it also suffers from its network TV origins, which imposed commercial breaks every 15 minutes or so. By necessity, screenwriter Lawrence D. Cohen and co-writer/director Tommy Lee Wallace streamlined much of the story and split the book's parallel timelines, in which a group of friends confront an ancient, evil entity in the sewers of Derry, Maine, first as children and then again as adults, into two halves over two nights."
"Thanks to his outrageous breakout debut in Rocky Horror, as well as his stylized work in Clue, Curry had a reputation as a comic actor, even after playing the diabolical Lord of Darkness in Ridley Scott's 1985 cult classic Legend. But perhaps it was the actor's underlying combination of menace and humor, a part of his characters going back to Frank N. Furter, that convinced Tommy Lee Wallace that Curry was right for Pennywise,"
Tim Curry's performance as Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the 1990 ABC miniseries became a defining, terrifying portrayal that traumatized a generation and influenced later interpretations. The miniseries delivers several chilling sequences but shows constraints from network television, including frequent commercial breaks and streamlined storytelling that split the novel's parallel timelines across two nights. Acting by child and adult casts is uneven and some visual effects date poorly, yet Curry's mix of menace and humor — informed by his earlier work in Rocky Horror and Clue — anchors the production. Cleveland Clinic links coulrophobia to the unsettling presentation of clowns.
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