Mention Stephen King’s It to anyone, and they’ll immediately think of the malevolent Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Some might think of Tim Curry from the ‘90s TV version, others the version from the ...

Stephen King’s most infamous creation, Pennywise, never seems to go away—the dancing clown has been haunting dreams since 1986, when King’s horror novel It was released. It adaptations tend to avoid ...

While Pennywise has been tormenting those with coulrophobia for decades now, it isn’t just terrifying because it's a clown or a straightforward monster — it’s much more than that, as is clear to ...

Gaby Shedwick is a senior author for Collider, joining in December 2023. During her undergraduate Sociology degree at the University of Warwick, she found a real love for horror cinema, writing her ...