A Warning For ‘IT: Welcome To Derry’ — With No Spoilers

This weekend, HBO Max will premiere the first episode of IT: Welcome to Derry. This prequel assortment from Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, the brother-sister duo behind IT and IT: Chapter Two will give audiences gnarly new tales involving Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Now, followers of the hard-R-rated horror movies starring Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise might suppose they know what to anticipate from this new current. Cool, cool, cool. You might be incorrect. 

Mashable’s Leisure crew has been completely gagged — in every strategies — by IT: Welcome to Derry, which builds upon three interludes from Stephen King’s novel IT. And whereas we will’t share spoilers of the horrors about to unfold, we do must give you a simple warning:

Don’t plan to eat whereas watching the premiere episode of IT: Welcome to Derry.

Look, you might suppose you might be too deep into horror, too giant a King fan, too staunch in stomach to get it churned by a TV current. Nonetheless first off, to quote an outdated nevertheless true motto, “It isn’t TV. It’s HBO.”

That’s the neighborhood that gave us the corpsicle of True Detective: Evening time Nation and the utterly harrowing second season of The Closing of Us. HBO initially stood for Home Discipline Office, however it would stand for Horror Bloody Outrageous. 

As teased in Belen Edwards’ evaluation, IT: Welcome to Derry doesn’t pull any punches in relation to its grisly set objects. And the first episode affords plenty of utterly grotesque sequences. So, do your self a favor: Eat or snack properly sooner than you sit down for this deranged debut. 

Previous the stomach-churningness of all of it, there’s a number of setup on this primary episode you’ll not must miss. After which there are moments so beautiful and twisted you’ll not think about your eyes. So put apart the popcorn. Avoid one thing purple or bloody. Hey, even perhaps stay away from Cracker Jacks. Perception us.

There are some TV reveals, like True Detective and Alien: Earth, that demand your full consideration on a full stomach. On account of in another case, it’s gonna be a troublesome night. 

IT: Welcome to Derry debuts on Sunday, October 26 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on HBO, and can seemingly be on the market to stream on HBO Max. New episodes air weekly.