This 'It' scene was so scary that Bill Skarsgård admitted it had to be cut

"The scene turned out really, really disturbing. And I'm not the clown. I look more like myself.

"It's very disturbing, and sort of a backstory for what IT is, or where Pennywise came from.

"That might be something worth exploring in the second one. The idea is the IT entity was dormant for thousands and thousands of years. The scene hints on that."

"I think that could be cool to explore as well. It's like, what is Pennywise? He only exists in the imagination of children. If you don't believe him to be real then he might not be real. There's an interesting aspect to explore there."