The menace shown by pennywise was something new to the character the tim curry version was goofy and funny but also scary bill s version is just outright scary and it is meant not to caution the parents but to scare the living sh t out of everyone in the audience.
Pennywise gutter tim curry.
Moviestore rex shutterstock i d read most of his books before doing it.
In 1990 tim curry became the first actor to portray pennywise.
His portrayal was since regarded as iconic and fittingly terrifying no matter how badly the it miniseries itself was received.
It tv mini series 1990 tim curry as pennywise.
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Frank n furter in rocky horror picture show left and pennywise in it photos.
The pennywise portrayed by tim curry knew how to lay a trap for the children he hunts and lure them into his waiting claws the hallmarks of what makes a killer clown scary.
My dad says there s no way to date this one.
Specifically tim curry s version of pennywise which is one of the things that truly works.
He says it s probably from the early or mid 1700s when derry was a logging town.
Tim curry pennywise in it tv mini series 1990 tim curry in the original it.
Welcome to next of ken and in this episode we re counting down 14 reminders of how brilliant tim curry was as pennywise.
The case for bill skarsgard there s no better word to describe bill skarsgard s pennywise than monstrous.
However in 2017 andy muscietti revived stephen king s 1986 novel with a movie adaptation.
I mean not that.
The best scenes with tim curry as pennywise the dancing clown in the 1990 tv miniseries adaptation of stephen king s it.
In 1960 seven pre teen outcasts fight an evil demon who poses as a child killing clown.
With richard thomas tim reid annette o toole harry anderson.
Tim curry as dr.
But bill skarsgard looks like he absolutely crushed it in his own right and will be the scary.