IT: chapter one (2017)

Note: from Oct 2021-June 2022, the podcast was known as 21 Jump Scare and was organized in a slightly different fashion, with different awards.

Background (spoiler-free) 0:00-13:00
Discussion (spoiler-heavy) 13:01-41:29
Awards (spoilers for days) 41:30

Director Andy Muschietti
Screenplay Chase Palmer & Cary Fukunaga and Gary Dauberman, based on the novel by Stephen King
Featuring Jack Dylan Grazer, Nicholas Hamilton, Chosen Jacobs, Sophia Lillis, Jaeden Martell, Wyatt Oleff, Bill Skarsgard, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Finn Wolfhard

Opened: September 10, 2017
Budget: $35 million (estimated)
Gross USA: $328,828,874
Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $701,796,444

SPOILER-FREE SYNOPSIS

1988, Derry, Maine. A young boy, Georgie Denbrough, rubs along a rainy street, chasing his homemade paper sailboat, until it slips into a storm drain. Fortunately, the boat doesn’t disappear. Unfortunately, it is caught by Pennywise, a smirking demon who beckons Georgie to reach for his boat. Georgie does, and Pennywise pulls the screaming boy down into the sewer. Fade to black. One year later, Georgie’s stuttering older brother Bill hasn’t given up hope that Georgie may still be alive, out there, somewhere.  Along with his friends, a group of amiable misfits that call themselves the Loser’s Club, Bill sets out to investigate the mysterious forces that’ve been causing people to disappear for years at an alarming rate.  Battling menacing bullies, antagonistic and abusive parents, haunted houses, and an endless series of slamming doors, the Losers press on, forced to stare down their darkest fears.

EPISODE NOTES

Music from the “It” original soundtrack by Benjamin Wallfisch

TRAILER

AWARDS

The Tom Six Award for Most Disturbing Scene
Bradford:  Henry Bowers kills his father
Eric:  Bathroom scene at Beverly’s house

The Seth Brundle Award for Most Likable Character
Bradford:  Georgie Denbrough
Eric:  Bill Denbrough

The Ellen Ripley Award for Character that Most Deserved to Live
Bradford:  Georgie Denbrough
Eric:  Georgie Denbrough

The John Doe Award for Character that Most Deserved to Die
Bradford:  Sonia Kaspbrak
Eric:  Henry Bowers

The Gaspar Noe Award/Ken Russell Award for Most Gratuitous Screen Moment
Bradford:  Ben Hanscom takes his shirt off
Eric:  The bathroom cleaning montage