While the original adaptation of IT hasn't exactly aged well on a multitude of levels, it continues to stand the test of time "on the strength of Tim Curry's performance," the show's makeup and special effects artist, Bart Mixon, tells SYFY WIRE over Zoom. Frank-N-Furter himself! The veteran of Rocky Horror Picture Show and Clue emerged as the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle for the 1990 miniseries adaptation directed by Tommy Lee Wallace (a filmmaker known for helming sequels in established horror franchises like Halloween and Fright Night). Yes, and that actor's name was Tim Curry - Dr. Did any actor alive have the chops needed to convey the terror of a pipe-dwelling clown without their performance veering into the realm of hyperbolic camp? Romero to throw up his hands in defeat - there was also a question of who could embody the entity that gives the book its chillingly ambiguous title. In addition to the conundrum of length - which ultimately prompted zombie godfather George A. Much like the Deadlights, it was seemingly boundless and inscrutable. When Hollywood came knocking on IT's door with plans for a small screen adaptation, however, the entertainment industry found its match in the 1986 source material, a novel containing just over 1,000 pages and a plot spanning several eons.
The only antidote for this existential entropy, King argues, is the untainted innocence of childhood and friendship, which can sometimes shine a much-needed light into the infinite void of maddening darkness. Drawing on the infinite wisdom of the great Turtle Maturin, King eerily summed up the dark corners of the unknown that constantly threaten to rip our sanity up from the roots in the same way a gardener clears out an infestation of weeds. The ingenious idea of an immortal, Lovecraftian being capable of assuming the shape of whatever scares us most effectively put a face - one smeared with white greasepaint and bloody rouge - to the horror genre at large. Whatever you want to call IT (pun intended), the child-devouring creature that dwells in the Macroverse and the sewers beneath Derry is, without question, one of the greatest (if not the greatest) monsters to ever pop out of Stephen King's twisted imagination and grace our cultural landscape. Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Bob Gray, the Deadlights.
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