Film
Bristol Film Festival: IT
- Director
- Andres Muschietti
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 135 mins
Coulrophobes beware! This second screen adaptation of Stephen King‘s 1986 novel (there was a TV miniseries back in 1990, remember?) sparked another rash of tabloid-fuelled ‘creepy clown’ sightings accompanied by the usual broadsheet columnist hand-wringing.
Andrés Muschietti, the Argentinean director of Mama, is behind the camera for this one, which casts Swedish actor Bill Skarsgård, of Eli Roth’s TV series Hemlock Grove, as Pennywise – the eponymous pesky transdimensional shape-shifting evil entity who pops up to force a septet of teen outcasts to face their personal demons. As with the miniseries, a couple of hours isn’t sufficient to contain King’s entire plot, so this is being billed as the first part of a ‘duology’. Go here for our full review.
Bristol Film Festival’s event is their very first late-night adults-only screening at the Museum and the last of three screenings of circus-oriented flicks to coincide with Clowns: The Eggs-hibition and Circus 250. There will be a mood-setting live performance before the screening. Go here for tickets and further information.
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