Stephen King's IT: Pennywise's Most Terrifying Moments

If we’ve learned thing from watching the IT movies and the spin-off series, Welcome to Derry, it’s that Derry, Maine is astir the past municipality connected Earth anyone should ever visit. Around each country lurks a creepy, homicidal clown who loves to play his victims with the saccharine sensation of fear, and that’s not adjacent counting the much mundane but inactive terrifying evils lurking successful this cursed town.

Now that IT: Welcome to Derry has ended its archetypal (but seemingly not only) play connected HBO Max, the clip has travel to interruption down the astir horrifying moments featuring Pennywise the Dancing Clown oregon his assorted different supernatural manifestations. Check retired our ranked list, and fto america cognize your favourite Pennywise scares successful the comments below.

Warning: This nonfiction contains full spoilers for some IT movies and IT: Welcome to Derry Season 1.

11. Patrick In the Sewer

As seen in: Stephen King’s IT (2017)

How rapidly the bully becomes the bullied. This little but aggravated country astir makes america consciousness a small atrocious for budding psychopath Patrick Hockstetter (Owen Teague). Patrick chases mediocre Ben (Jeremy Ray Taylor) into the sewers, anxious to navigator him with a homemade blowtorch; instead, Patrick discovers the demonic clown surviving successful Derry’s underbelly, and learns that erstwhile you participate the sewers, it’s not truthful casual to find your mode retired again.

10. Return to the Neibolt Street House

As seen in: Stephen King’s IT: Chapter Two (2019)

We get that the Losers Club members mislaid galore of the memories of their puerility ordeal, but you’d inactive deliberation they’d clasp capable to retrieve 1 captious lesson: Never spell into the location connected Neibolt St. Unfortunately, that’s precisely what the adults bash successful the sequel, and for their trouble, they’re greeted by the severed, crab-like caput of mediocre Stanley Uris. If immoderate infinitesimal successful the IT bid owes a indebtedness to the large John Carpenter, it’s this one.

9. The Sewer Showdown

As seen in: IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 5 (2025)

Welcome to Derry takes its saccharine clip really showcasing Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise the Dancing Clown, but the villain surely makes up for mislaid clip successful Episode 5. No sooner bash Clara Stack’s Lilly and friends travel Miles Ekhardt’s “Matty” into the sewers (an evident no-no) than their person reveals himself to beryllium a horrifying clown monster successful disguise. Even arsenic the friends scatter into the tunnels successful sheer terror, we spot the Air Force’s ill-fated ngo wholly collapse. Worst of each is seeing Pennywise worm his mode into Dick Hallorann’s (Chris Chalk) caput and unfastened the unspeakable container he’s kept sealed determination for decades.

8. The Flooded Basement

As seen in: Stephen King’s IT (2017)

Basements are beauteous creepy connected the champion of days, but particularly truthful erstwhile you’re talking astir aged New England houses. This country truly plays connected that fearfulness arsenic Bill Denbrough (Jaeden Lieberher) ventures downstairs to find his basement is flooded and hiding the shade of his dormant member Georgie (Jackson Robert Scott). That’s erstwhile Pennywise chooses to marque his stomach-churning entrance.

7. Marge the Slug

As seen in: IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 4 (2025)

Few things successful fearfulness are much squirm-inducing than scares involving eyeballs; the sheer thought of damaging oregon losing an oculus gives astir anyone the ick immediately. Welcome to Derry’s 4th occurrence zeroes successful connected that cosmopolitan information erstwhile IT manipulates mediocre Marge (Matilda Lawler) into reasoning she’s go a quality slug. Watching her suffer her caput and effort to saw disconnected her ain protruding eyeballs is not a country for the squeamish.

6. Georgie’s Death

As seen in: Stephen King’s IT (2017)

The archetypal IT movie opens with a country that’s precise overmuch a connection of intent for the series. We spot young Georgie joyfully enjoying the rainy upwind with his insubstantial boat, lone to hap crossed a not-at-all creepy clown hanging astir a tempest drain. In a tamer fearfulness franchise, Georgie’s property would render him immune to immoderate terrible consequences, but this is IT, truthful of people helium gets his limb ripped disconnected and is past dragged into the sewer to go the archetypal of Pennywise’s galore victims successful the movie.

5. Eddie Meets the Leper

As seen in: Stephen King’s IT (2017)

By nary means should anyone ever task wrong the dreaded location astatine 29 Neibolt St., but adjacent wandering astir extracurricular tin beryllium highly hazardous to your health. Eddie (Jack Dylan Grazer) learns that the hard mode erstwhile helium walks by the location and encounters Pennywise manifesting arsenic a terrifying leper (Javier Botet). For a kid raised to beryllium a pathological germaphobe, determination tin beryllium nary greater monster.

4. The Hall of Mirrors

As seen in: Stephen King’s IT: Chapter Two (2019)

While astir fans hold that IT: Chapter Two is simply a large measurement beneath its predecessor successful quality, it does boast 1 of the astir inventive and scary scenes successful the bid erstwhile the big Bill Denbrough (James McAvoy) finds himself trapped wrong a funhouse hallway of mirrors. The sheer claustrophobia of that concern would beryllium capable to excavation immoderate existent fear, but the movie goes the other mile by forcing Bill to ticker arsenic Pennywise torments and yet eats a young lad who’s besides trapped successful the maze.

3. The Movie Theater Massacre

As seen in: IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 1 (2025)

As mentioned, the archetypal IT movie starts disconnected by making it wide that no one is harmless from Pennywise, not adjacent guiltless young children. The archetypal occurrence of Welcome to Derry goes 1 measurement further successful its efforts to hammer that constituent home, closing with a grotesque, horrifying country wherever Lilly and her friends are locked wrong a movie theatre portion monsters devour them 1 by one. Just erstwhile we thought the bid had introduced 1962’s reply to the Losers Club, It goes and eats astir of them for dinner.

2. Inside the House astatine Neibolt Street

As seen in: Stephen King’s IT (2017)

Once again for the inexpensive seats: Never spell wrong the location astatine 29 Neibolt Street for immoderate reason! The archetypal movie truly nails that down erstwhile our young heroes task wrong this dilapidated operation and brushwood the afloat scope of Pennywise’s horrors. We’re particularly creeped retired by the country wherever Richie (Finn Wolfhard) is trapped wrong a chamber afloat of unnerving clown dolls, lone to brushwood the existent Pennywise emerging gleefully from a coffin.

1. Matty Goes Hitchhiking

As seen in: IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 1 (2025)

Welcome to Derry truly makes a beardown lawsuit for itself successful its precise archetypal episode, delivering immoderate of the franchise’s champion scares to date. That includes the champion of them all, successful an aboriginal country wherever Matty opts to hitch a thrust retired of municipality alternatively than woody with his abusive location beingness 1 infinitesimal longer. Unfortunately for him, helium winds up stuck wrong a shade car alongside a household of demented ghouls and a parent proudly giving commencement – precise graphically, we mightiness adhd – to a demon baby. This is wherefore they ever accidental it’s not harmless to hitchhike.

For much connected IT: Welcome to Derry, cheque retired IGN’s reappraisal of the play finale and spot each the easter eggs for the Stephen King multiverse.

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