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This is 10 Things You Missed in: It Chapter Two (2019). It: Chapter 2 has finally pranced into theaters, bringing the long, bloody saga of the Losers Club to a close. But we’re not leaving the circus just yet. With a nearly three-hour runtime and a thousand-page book to reference, there were bound to be plenty of Easter eggs in It: Chapter 2. Here are the ones you might have missed.
10 Things You Missed in: It Chapter Two (2019)
1- Found the legs
Probably the creepiest sequence in the 2017 film was when the kids go exploring in the house on Neibolt Street and run into a variety of clown-flavored horror spectacles. Certainly, the most memorable segment from that sees Richie and Bill faced with the “Scarydoors.
Thinking and reacting quickly, they initially raced to the entryway named “Not Scary At All,” and find that, shock, it’s really unnerving. Inside they see one of the missing young ladies hanging by her hands with everything beneath her waist missing.
Well, it takes 27 years, but Richie eventually finds those legs. Guess it goes to show: be careful what you wish for.
2- Miniseries homages
Tim Curry’s rendition of Pennywise in the 1990 miniseries sent many a kid to bed with nightmares of toothy clowns coming out of the locker room drain. Yeah, it’s a little goofy these days, but you can only do so much with a made-for-tv special effects budget.
While it’s not the most fondly remembered Stephen King adaptation, the 1990 version of It definitely has its own place in history.
In It: Chapter 1, we got to see a clown with a striking resemblance to Tim Curry’s Pennywise in the scene where Richie explores the house on Neibolt Street. And in the sequel, we got, even more, nods to the miniseries.
For starters, one of the most iconic lines made a return in the 2019 film. During the flashback of young Ben Hanscom hiding from It in his locker after trying to kiss Beverly, Pennywise pops up with one of the most well-known taunts from the 1990version.
And at the Canal Days festival, Bill chases a young boy into a clown-themed funhouse and runs into a room full of swinging clown bags. Look closely, and you can see that those clowns have the same pattern as the outfit from Curry’sPennywise, right down to the orange pom-poms and curvy eyebrows.
3- The King of cameos
Speaking of cameos, there was a special one that fans of Stephen King probably noticed, but which might have flown over the heads of casual viewers. No, not the one where director Andy Muschietti appeared in the background when Eddie visits the Derry pharmacy.
The horror auteur showed up as the owner of Secondhand Rose, the thrift store where Bill finds Silver, his childhood bike. Like King’s portrayal in the film, the proprietor in the novel is kind of a jerk. “Sonny! In the film, the shopkeeper has a copy of Bill’s book Attic Room on his desk.
After Bill notices the book, King repeats what everyone else says about Bill’s books: he doesn’t like the ending. It’s a joke that’s overused in the movie, but hearing the criticism coming from King himself is a pretty great nod to the fact that a whole lot of readers.
4- Turtle check
One character the films leave out entirely is Maturin, an ancient intergalactic turtle that sort of helps the Losers defeat It during round one of their face-offs.
Maturin comes from the same dimension as the being known as It, and in fact, created our world by puking it out when he had indigestion. While neither of the It films has dared to quite go into that level of cosmic craziness, they’ve definitely dropped a few turtle Easter eggs.
It: Chapter 1 put a Lego turtle in Georgie’s room, as well as a mention of a turtle at the quarry where the kids go swimming. In Chapter 2, we see a model of a turtle at Derry Elementary when Ben revisits the school to find his token.
5- Koontz is the worst
On the off chance that you needed to name two standard ghastliness creators from a previous couple of decades, odds rush to think of two names: Stephen King, and Dean Koontz. Both are prolific writers, and both have been writing published fiction for about the same length of time. Obviously, the two authors have taken notice of each other over the years, and while they probably don’t have the kind of rivalry fans think they do, they haven’t been averse to taking shots at each other over the years.
Maybe that’s why King wrote Koontz into It as an orderly at Juniper Hill Asylum who watches over an incarcerated Henry Bowers. That scene where he’s introduced involves an observation from the perspective of HenryBowers that, quote, Koontz is the worst.
In It: Chapter 2, Koontz is alive and well, with an especially fitting appearance. He’s an employee at Juniper Hill, and you can spot him in the film as the guard watching a dog video on his phone when Henry Bowers breaks out.
6- A shiny board
In an effort to double down on Bill’s guilt at not being able to save his little brother, Chapter 2 also brings in another kid named Dean to die right in front of Bill despite his best efforts to save him.
The kid shows up three times in the film, but in the novel he only appears once, whenBill is wandering around Derry and revisits the old sewer opening.
If you pay close attention to the underside of Dean’s skateboard, you can see that, although it’s a little roughed up, it once had the same design as the Overlook.
7- Always a Loser
It: Chapter 2 had a lot of catching up to do. While the first film focused exclusively on the kids, this one had the dual job of both introducing the adult versions of the Losers and making you believe that they After the camera slides over the room, it at last centers around one man.
Ben, as depicted by Jay Ryan, is on a Skype call with everyone in that room. But it’s a double fake-out because that first guy was Ben all grown up. Confused? Obviously, that on-screen character was Brandon Crane, who played Ben Hanscom in the 1990 miniseries.
8- An overlooked nod
When the adult Losers finally track Pennywise down to its underground lair and totally flub the Ritual of Chud, the clown gets them all to scatter. Beverly’s nightmare takes on the form of a stall in a school bathroom, one that looks a lot like the one where she got trash dumped on her in the
They all have something relevant to say except crazy Henry Bowers, who jams his head into the gap and simply shouts the most iconic line from The Shining: “Here’s Johnny.
9- 27 everywhere
Technically, this Easter egg breaks through the universe of the film and into our world, which is even creepier. Most King fans know that he’s big on the number 27, and It, in particular, uses the number as the main plot point; Pennywise comes back every 27 years.
It makes sense then that It: Chapter 2 saw a release date of September 6, 2019. If you break 9/6/2019 down number by number, all the digits add up to 27.
It: Chapter 1, released on September 8, 2017, follows the same formula: all the digits in the date 9/8/2017 equal exactly 27 as well. Add to that the way that the principal film was discharged 27 years after the 1990 miniseries and, well, things are beginning to get somewhat freaky here.
1– Mom, wife, what’s the difference?
Stephen King’s novel spent multiple chapters hammering home the point that although the losers grew up physically, they each carried remnants of their childhood into adulthood with them. In Eddie’s case, he grew up into a man who couldn’t quite bear to leave his mother behind.
She’s big, needy, domineering, and fixated on her husband’s welfare to the point of emotionally traumatizing him. My mom will have an aneurysm, okay, if she finds out we’re playing down here.
In It: Chapter 2, we only saw Myra Kaspbrak briefly, but sharp-eyed viewers may have noticed a very, very specific detail. Namely, she’s depicted by a similar entertainer who plays Eddie’s mom in the two movies, MollyAtkinson. So in the event that you got a strange inclination in your stomach feeling that Eddie’s significant other looked a little too much like his mother, you weren’t right.
11- It’s kind of a Thing
In the book and, to a lesser extent, It: Chapter 1, It often takes the shape of movie monsters to terrify the kids. Ben Hanscom is scared of The Mummy, while Richie’s fears take the form of the hairy shapeshifter from I Was a Teenage Werewolf and the oozing peeper from 1958. But with updated times come updated scares, and it appears that these ’80s kids found some new monster movies to be scared of.
Something like John Carpenter’s 1982 awfulness perfect work of art The Thing. For a boost, The Thing is about a shapeshifting outsider that torment an exploration group in Antarctica. It can appear as anything it contaminates, yet it needs to experience ghastly transformations to arrive.
In one of It: Chapter 2’s increasingly significant alarms, Richie, Bill, and Eddie go over Stan’sdecapitated head in an ice chest inside the house at 29 Neibolt Street.
It’s a fitting tribute to the scene in Carpenter’s horror fest, which sees one of the researchers lose his head to the tentacled monstrosity, after which Palmer says, you guessed Later, The Thing seemingly gets referenced once again when that adorable Pomeranian behind the “Not Scary” door shows up and turns into a twisted dog mutant that looks a lot.
