"If you are a hardened It fan, I'm sure the new series co-developed and directed by Andy Muschietti and functioning as a prequel to the 2017 film It, which he also directed (as he did that film's sequel two years later, because some people are just built differently, I guess, and don't find themselves trying to claw their way through solid walls whenever a grinning clown shows up) will be but a bagatelle."
"I'm sure the opening sequence, when you've barely got comfortable on the sofa, involving a picture-perfect family giving a lift to an unhappy boy and gradually revealing themselves to be liver-eating demons filling the car with blood, gore and a mutant baby swung round by its demented mother via the umbilical cord, is nothing to you. Less viscera-happy people, however, may need a moment."
Heavily graphic horror sequences dominate the prequel series It: Welcome to Derry, opening with a family revealed as liver-eating demons and a mutant umbilical-cord birth. The most horrific imagery is also the most realistic, emphasizing visceral body-horror. The narrative then shifts to April 1962, when Matty has been missing from Derry for four months. A group of children—Teddy, conscience-stricken; Phil, boisterous and prone to alien theories; and Lilly, traumatized by her father's gruesome pickle-factory accident—form a makeshift search party. Bullying and darkly comic cruelty punctuate childhood trauma alongside supernatural menace.
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