Stephen King’s Pennywise Prequel Should Avoid It: Chapter 2 Taboo
Although Stephen King’s It: Chapter 2 gained some infamy by killing off kids, It’s upcoming prequel series Welcome To Derry should steer clear of this taboo. 2017’s It managed to find a tricky tonal balance between dark comedy, cute coming-of-age character drama, and outright horror. Its 2019 sequel It: Chapter 2 was not as lucky, often veering into outright goofy comedy and stark, brutal tragedy without much in the way of consistency.
As a result of this inconsistency, It’s upcoming prequel Welcome To Derry should avoid the most shocking surprise that It: Chapter 2 pulled off. In two separate scenes,It: Chapter 2 graphically killed off young child characters, a surprising choice that kept the movie from becoming a full-blown comedy but still didn’t entirely work in terms of tone. Since Welcome To Derry is already a darker prequel, the series should entirely avoid this taboo.
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Despite being lighter and funnier thanIt: Chapter 1,It: Chapter 2 made the jarring decision to kill off two child characters onscreen in a bloody fashion where It: Chapter 1 only killed off Georgie in the infamous opening scene and then kept the rest of its deaths off-screen. It was a taboo rarely seen in teen horror movies (Fear Street 1978 was another recent exception), as generally mainstream entries into the genre avoid depicting the death of young children onscreen. Welcome to Derry, the Pennywise-centric It prequel series that is arriving soon, would be wise to avoid this taboo, since knowing that Pennywise survives the series makes the plot bleak enough already, so seeing him kill children is likely to put viewers off altogether.
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