A Clown Scarier Than Your Ex!

Once again... better late than never!

Now before we begin this review, I would like to discuss my black ass experience going to see It Chapter Two. After all, this blog is called Black Girl Horror for a reason.

So I pop up at my local black theater on a Thursday afternoon. The theater was surprisingly full for an 11:50 am screening. I guess everyone decided to get like me and take a mental health day. Now we all know whatever time the movie is supposed to start is really just the beginning of the trailers. So 10 minutes go by and no trailers. No one else seems to be bothered by this but I’m getting antsy seeing as how the movie is nearly 3 hours long. So an additional 10 minutes go by and I’ve had enough. I go find a staff member and tell him what’s going on and his response was, “Well are you in the right theater?” A valid question because one time I did sit in the wrong theater. However. Today was not that day. So he follows me to the theater and was like oh yea you’re right. Sir I know! So he radios for an explanation and they say there’s a delay. How much y’all willing to be the projector man was taking shots of Ciroc upstairs and forgot to press play? They then proceeded to play a good 25 minutes of trailers. Almost an hour later... I finally got to see the movie *cheers and screams*

Now for the real reason you are here!

At almost 3 hours long, It Chapter 2 has lots and lots of time to be scary af. The sequel to 2017’s It picks up 27 years later. Everyone except Mike has left Derry, Maine. But when the murders start happening again Mike has to call in the Loser’s Club to finish what they started all those years ago.

I loved how the movie used flashbacks from what happened 27 years ago after the first chapter ended to show how all of the characters split and ended up where they are now. Something about leaving Derry makes you forget where you came from so Mike forces everyone to remember what happened before to make them strong enough to take on Pennywise. It’s nice to see that mostly everyone is leading very successful lives despite their childhood trauma. Unfortunately for Beverly, she married a man just like her abusive father- but I was so happy to see her escape him in her return to Derry.

A lot of people have said they found this movie scarier than the first. I find them equally scary but I love how this movie wrapped up the story. We learn more about the origins of Pennywise plus we find out how the Losers Club split not too long after defeating him the first time. While the movie wasn’t a happy ending for everyone, I was happiest about Beverly and Ben riding off into the sunset together. That brought me joy.

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