1. Ben meets the mummy

The kids go to the movie theater regularly in the book (which is set in the 50s) usually to see monster movies - that It then imitates to scare the crap out of them.

The first time Ben meets Pennywise, he sees the clown stood on the frozen canal. He offers Ben a balloon, which floats towards him, distracting Ben as it is somehow going against the wind. When Ben looks back, Pennywise has almost reached him, now in the form of the infamous Mummy.

2. The Werewolf on Neibolt Street

There are actually a few visits to the creepy house on Neibolt Street in the book, including a time where Bill and Richie are chased away from It in the form of a werewolf. When the Losers head back as a full group, It transforms into a werewolf again, savagely slashing Ben across his stomach when he attempts to save Bill.

This was inspired by I Was A Teenage Werewolf, which terrified the kids at the movie theatre. In the 2017 film, you can catch a quick glimpse as Pennywise's hand transforms into a long, hairy claw, attacking Ben in a similar way.

3. The death of Eddie Corcoran

In the movie, Eddie is briefly mentioned as one of the missing children, but in the book he gets a full backstory - and a gruesome death. Eddie runs away from home after his abusive father accidentally kills his brother during a beating, only to meet It in the form of his dead little brother.

Eddie runs away, but eventually the apparition catches up, now in the form of the creature from the black lagoon. His last thoughts are "This isn't real, it can't hurt me", before the monster tears off his head.

4. Patrick Hockstetter killing his infant brother

Patrick is likely the worst of the bullies in It. He's a psychopath who believes he is the only "real mortal", tries to feel up girls in his class, and shows them his collection of dead flies.

When he was five years old, Patrick became scared that his newborn brother would "replace him", so decided he had to get rid of him for good. One afternoon, he sneaked into his brother's room and smothered the baby while it slept. He then sat and watched television as he heard his mother scream at what she finds.

5. Patrick's death

Patrick's story gets even darker. He uses a fridge dumped in the junkyard to store the corpses of animals he has killed, sometimes trapping them to see how long it takes until they starve. In the movie he is attacked by zombies in the sewers, but he has a far worse fate in the book.

He opens the fridge one day to find it is full of winged insects. They turn out to be flying leeches, and one by one they stick to his flesh, suck his blood, then burst. As if it couldn't get any worse, one lands on his eye, and after he screams another lands on his tongue (I'm getting queasy just writing this). He passes out and awakens in the sewers, as 'It' begins to feed on him.

6. Frankenstein's Monster

In the book, the bullies eventually chase the kids into the sewers towards the end of the novel. Henry's sidekicks Victor and "Belch" are then attacked by It as Henry makes his escape. This time It appears to them as Frankenstein's monster. It decapitates Vic and quickly overpowers Belch, mutilating his face.

7. Beverley's father

Beverly's father is pretty damn horrible in the movie as it is, but in the book, things are more extreme. It is heavily implied (and out-right stated by Pennywise at one point) that his abusive behaviour comes from an incestuous attraction to her.

On top of this, when he confronts her about hanging out with the boys, he insists she "take off her pants" so he can see if she was "intact". When she fights back, he chases her down the street, while their neighbours ignore her screams.

8. The Bird

In Mike's first encounter with It, the monster takes on the form of a gigantic bird. While that might not sound too scary, it ends up being one of the more menacing forms It takes. Mike is chased into a fallen smokestack, as the bird, smelling of rotten decay, claws and snaps at him, before he eventually escapes.

The monster is inspired by the flying movie monster Rodan, as well as a horrific incident from Mike's childhood, wherein a crow attacked him in his crib, until his mother saved her terrified baby.

9. Henry kills Mike's dog

Henry, in his anger towards Mike and his family, killed Mike's family dog. The bully secretively befriended the dog, feeding it treats until he would happily come over whenever he spotted him. Then, one day, he gave the dog some meat laced with insect poison. When the pain kicked in, he tied the dog to a post so it couldn't run home, then watched him slowly die.

10. The infamous sewer scene

After their final confrontation with It, the children are unable to find their way out of the dark labyrinth of the town's sewers. Beverly realises she needs to bring unity back to the group for them to escape, so she offers to have sex with each of the boys. Wait - what?

Honestly, this really happens. All seven of them lose their virginity in this scene, which was ill-advised when it was written, and hasn't fared any better in the years since. Some defend it as symbolic of the group losing their innocence together, but it's still unnecessary, and pretty damn creepy to read a sex scene with 12-year-old children.

Stephen King's 'It' has been scaring people for over thirty years. However, it wasn't until last year that a movie came together to do the horror novel justice. Sure, there was the 1990 TV mini-series, but it wasn't exactly the most accurate adaptation nor the scariest - something the 2017 movie had in spades.

Tim Curry, in my opinion, did a pretty amazing job portraying Pennywise, the clown who tormented all the members of the Losers Club with their worst fears. But when Bill Skarsgård had the costume and prosthetics put on, he terrified audiences in an entirely new way.

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For those that have watched the movie, you may remember that it ends on a cliffhanger of sorts. Ben, Bill, Stan, Richie, Bev and Eddie managed to overcome their fears and defeat the monster, but made a promise to return to the town of Derry if there was any sign that Pennywise had come back. And now, 'It: Chapter Two' has started filming.

The movie looks to adapt the other half of King's book, which focused on the group, now adults, returning to Derry twenty years later. While it has been said that there will be some flashbacks to the original cast, there are now an entirely new group of actors taking over those roles.

A few cast reveals made their way onto the internet, before they showed the full cast at a script reading together.

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So, we've got Jessica Chastain playing Beverly, who was portrayed by Sophia Lillis in the first movie.

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James McAvoy will be taking over the role of Bill, Jay Ryan will play Ben, Bill Hader will play Richie, James Ransone will play the adult version of Eddie, Andy Bean will play the adult version of Stan, and Isaiah Mustafa will be Mike.

Here's how they compare to their younger versions (yes, non-book readers, Ben changes a lot):

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And, being an altogether different kind of creature, Pennywise will look much the same - meaning that Bill Skarsgård will still be creeping it up for the sequel. Speaking to Den of Geek about the upcoming It: Chapter Two, the actor said:

“I'm really looking forward to it. It's going to be a very different experience this time around, just given the fact that you have all of these incredible, seasoned actors to play against, as opposed to having all the kids.

"So it's going to be a different experience for sure. But I'm looking forward to it."

James McAvoy posted an Instagram a few months back confirming that they were starting filming on the movie, making a particularly cheesy pun.

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With the cast and crew shooting, it was only a matter of time before someone caught a glimpse of the process - and now Twitter is sharing all sorts of photos of Pennywise, suspended on wires on the set.

Even behind-the-scenes, the clown looks creepy as hell.

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We'll have to wait a little longer to see the finished version, however. It: Chapter Two will be hitting cinemas on September 6, 2019.

There's no doubt that Stephen King's classic novel IT is one of the scariest stories of all time, and a lot of that is down to the monstrous eponymous antagonist. IT is a shapeshifting monster that haunts the fictional town of Derry, Maine - arising every 23 years to devour innocent children. The eldritch horror most commonly takes the form of a demonic clown called Pennywise, and ever since the movie starring Bill Skarsgård came out in theatres, the spooky clown has petrified millions of people.

This week, commuters in New York got the scare of their lives, when Pennywise appeared to step out of the pages of Stephen King's book and hopped on to a busy subway train.

Check out the trailer for IT Chapter Two in the video below:

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Magician and prankster Alejandro Torres dressed up in clown makeup and costume, and even held a red balloon on the L train. When Instagram user Ryan B Taylor spotted Torres, he began filming him, and later the Instagram account @subwaycreatures picked up the footage and shared it, leading to the video accruing over 700,000 views.

Commenting on the stunt in an interview with Patch, Torres stated: "was trying to get back to Brooklyn. I did my best to stay in character but I was exhausted. I want to take stuff that can be seen as scary and make it fun. The reactions so far have been really positive."

Check out the video of the prankster below:

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The prank has ended up being a good promotion for IT: Chapter Two, which is allegedly over three hours long. Speaking to Digital Spy, director Andy Muschietti stated: "when you have the movie finally edited and it's 4 hours long, you realise that some of the events and some of the beats can be easily lifted but the essence of the story remains intact."

He added: "You cannot deliver a 4-hour movie because people will start to feel uncomfortable no matter what they see. But we ended up having a movie that is 2 hours and 45 minutes, and the pacing is very good. Nobody who's seen the movie has had any complaint."

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Meanwhile, producer Barbara Muschietti added: "We will put out a director's cut because this time it definitely merits it. We have some amazing scenes that didn't make it into the movie."

IT: Chapter Two comes out in cinemas on September 6, and stars James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Andy Bean, James Ransone, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, and Bill Skarsgård.

Over the years, the master of horror, Stephen King, has created all kinds of terrifying characters. There's Jack Torrance, alcoholic writer-come-caretaker, who loses his mind and is driven to kill his family. There's Carrie White, the disturbed psychic teenager who wreaks havoc at her school prom. Then there's Christine, a sentient car which has been possessed by a malevolent ghost.

But there's no doubt that Pennywise the Dancing Clown, the shapeshifting boogeyman from IT, is the most frightening monster of them all, and the ensuing movies have reminded everyone of that fact. Indeed, Bill Skarsgard, the actor who portrays the eldritch horror, was rightly praised for being able to scare us all silly.

Take a look at the first trailer for IT Chapter Two:

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However, there were plenty of fans of the iconic horror movies who had no idea what the actor looked like under all that creepy clown makeup. As it turns out, Bill Skarsgard is actually a strikingly-handsome young man; something many people have been surprised to learn. Check him out if you don't believe me!

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Bill Skarsgard is the son of Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard, who recently portrayed the historical official Boris Shcherbina in HBO's acclaimed miniseries Chernobyl. The 29-year-old actor has also appeared in the Charlize Theron movie Atomic Blonde, and had a brief cameo in the Deadpool sequel as a member of X-Force.

Commenting on his portrayal of the character in a recent interview, Skarsgard stated: "What we talked about going into the second one was like, 'All right, what is different with Pennywise, and how is he different in this new movie?' And of course, we talked about it a lot, where it's like he was defeated for the first time ever and he's come back for revenge."

He continued: "We talked a lot about [how] there's this kind of urge that maybe Pennywise really, really wants to be defeated finally and forever ... he's angry, he wants revenge. But there might be - if you can imagine such a thing as a subconscious of Pennywise - that it maybe is wanting to be destroyed."

Check out this creepy scene from IT Chapter Two: 

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Skarsgard also added: "We can't have a Pennywise in this second movie who's weak. That's weakening the children. He wants them back and he's enjoying it and he's playing mind games with all the Losers, and maybe it's a little bit masochistic. But he craves them."

IT Chapter Two is already out in movie theatres in the US, and aside from Skarsgard stars James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransome and Andy Bean.