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ITscared the hell out of audiences in 2017 , but its good creepy-crawly moment happened in the background of a scene , and may have been neglect . While many would argue that 2019 sequelIT Chapter Twofailed to equate the quality of its predecessor , that does n’t mean we still ca n’t front back and continue to love the first film . crease in over $ 700 million worldwide on a budget of $ 35 million , ITwas one of the most profitable horror pic in recent memory , and exceed genre limit to become a far-flung pop culture phenomenon .
IT , directed by Andy Muschietti , was of course the second attempt at adapting Stephen King ’s dear novel for the screen , although the first to work in theaters . This gave it a lot more resources to work with than the 1990 video miniseries star Tim Curry , lead to much more complex scare scenes , and the freedom to havePennywise transforminto more thing . As good as Bill Skarsgard is as Pennywise itself , the ancientITcreature ’s other disguises were an exceedingly coolheaded chemical element of the book that did n’t really get research much in the miniseries .
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The Losers ' Club pay back scared in many originative ways inIT , which makes sense , as their fear is a sort of season for whenPennywiseultimately devours them . However , the best scare inITactually takes place in the background , and there ’s a in effect chance many viewers missed it on first coup d’oeil .
IT’s Best Scare Happens in the Background
One of the oddest changes made from theITbook and miniseries to the 2017 movie was the change to having Ben Hanscom ( Jeremy Ray Taylor ) be the Loser obsessed with Derry ’s history , as oppose to Mike Hanlon . This change was made all the strangerby the decision to still have Mike be the group ’s " lighthouse keeper " that draws them back to Derry , a instinctive progression from being theLosers ' Clubhistorian . Still , this plot of land alteration explains why partway through the firstIT , Ben finds himself sit in the Derry public library , doing inquiry into the town ’s tragic past .
As Ben begin to twitch through a book just turn over to him by a bibliothec , that ’s where things get to get eldritch . A different bibliothec , who was briefly check sorting thing on a bookshelf in the background prior to this pointedness , softly turns to count flat at Ben as he turns pages . The images Ben project in the rule book commence to grow more upsetting , and then the bibliothec is shown leering at Ben with a creepy smile , having moved substantially toward camera . After Ben gets to the shocking picture of a son ’s decapitated head , the bibliothec is designate again in the background , almost looking like she ’s revel Ben ’s terror .
A balloon then appears to extend Ben down to the records way , but if one looks close , the sinister desktop librarian has disappear from the spot she just occupied . Before Ben heads downstairs , the bibliothec is then seen back doing her job assort book like she was at the beginning . The whole sequence is bone - chillingly creepy , and made all the more so by the fact that it is n’t explained . Does that librarian even actually live , or is it just a Pennywise materialisation ? If she does exist , the librarian is never seen being normal and frightening at the same time , implore the question of whether Pennywise is somehow controlling her mind for a bit . Yet another reasonableness to continue to love and re - watchIT .
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