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Plenty of frights in IT - but its real-world violence scares the most

Published Thu, Sep 7, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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    THE clown in IT is no laughing matter.

    Stephen King readers would know. The 1986 best-seller of the title by King ranks among the pulp horror master's finest creations.

    There has been a 1990 TV series. Argentinian filmmaker Andy Muschietti of the 2013 sleeper hit Mama is directing the first feature adaptation, with the narrative's 1950s Derry, Maine updated to 1988.

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