With all due respect to Stephen King, the scariest (and best) scene in the record-breaking It is the first one. It’s beautifully shot, effectively captures the eccentricity of Pennywise the Dancing Clown (I, for one, would not talk to a clown in the sewer, but I can understand how seven-year-old Georgie would be enraptured by Pennywise’s talk of cotton candy, peanuts, and popcorn), and it’s terrifyingly violent. One thing the scene’s not: hilarious.
Unless you’re the director of It.
Andy Muschietti, who was also behind the camera for 2013’s underrated Mama, recently shared an early drawing from It on Instagram. “And here a little sketch i drew for pennywise’s ‘killmouth,’ one of the comedic highlights of the film,” he wrote. Muschietti’s “killmouth” is a reference to when Pennywise takes a chomp out of Georgie’s arm (although not before sniffing him, apparently) then drags him into the sewer, where they all float, too.
If Muschietti thinks a creepy clown biting a small child’s arm is funny, what else does he find hilarious? Starvation? Human suffering? The end of Marley and Me? Muschietti might have an odd sense of humor, but he also has a must-follow Instagram account for anyone who enjoyed It (which, based on the box office receipts and Rotten Tomatoes score, is almost everyone).
(Via Instagram)