Kind of surprised there’s no thread on this series. Unless I missed it in my search; that would be very unsurprising.
I know we have Stephen King fans here. Are any of you watching?
I’m really enjoying it and would love to hear others’ thoughts. It’s on HBO, with one episode being released weekly. So far there have been five eps shown.
I only made it two episodes. Some good scares but the victims being kids made it hard to have fun with it. Am I right in assuming that they front-loaded the best scene of the season in the first ten minutes of episode one?
Likely.
I’m intrigued by the presence (not a spoiler, it’s in the ads) of Dick Hallorann, some unspecified number of years before the events of The Shining. (Of course all the chronologies have shifted, of It and other King works, due to his long career.)
I suppose there’s only so much they can do with him, given that we know his fate. And that his fate doesn’t seem to have anything to do with “It” but instead with human ghosts.
But I’m interested to see if they have anything clever up their sleeves.
That, and the last ten minutes of episode one. Episode four had a pretty good scene.
I mentioned it in the omnibus thread. Couple of others commented, I think.
That was definitely creepy. I do like to see nature photography inspire horror-story developments!
But I wonder if that film is an anachronism? I don’t remember seeing/hearing of those in my childhood, only well into the internet era, probably less than 20 years ago.
I hadn’t thought of that but I bet you’re right. There was plenty of nature-filming in the 1960s, but perhaps not at that level of magnification.
The Hellstrom Chronicle came out in 1971.
Searching for “it” on the forums can lead to very unhelpful results, to be fair.
I did see that when I searched but I didn’t want to take over that thread.