![]() ![]() The Losers reject this, battling with It while overcoming their various fears. As Pennywise, It takes Bill hostage, offering to spare the others and go into hibernation if they let It feed on Bill. Bill encounters Georgie, but recognizes that he is It in disguise. Beverly, now catatonic after being exposed to bright lights inside It's gaping mouth, is restored to consciousness when Ben kisses her. The Losers descend into the sewers and find It's underground lair, which contains a mountain of decayed circus props and children's belongings, around which the bodies of It's child victims float in mid-air. Bowers, who has murdered his abusive father after being driven insane by It, attacks the group Mike fights back and pushes Bowers down the well, apparently killing him. ![]() The Losers Club reassembles and returns to the abandoned house to rescue her. Weeks later, after Beverly confronts and incapacitates her sexually abusive father, Pennywise abducts her. The group flees the house and begins to splinter, with only Bill and Beverly resolute in fighting It. As Pennywise gloats to Bill about Georgie, the Losers regroup and Beverly impales Pennywise through the head, forcing the clown to retreat. They determine that It appears as their individual worst fears, awakening every 27 years to feed on the children of Derry before resuming hibernation, and moves about by using the sewer lines, which all lead to an old stone well hidden under an abandoned house on Neibolt Street.Īfter Pennywise attacks them, the group ventures to the house to confront It, only to be separated and terrorized. Now calling themselves "The Losers Club", they realize they are all being stalked by the same entity, which they refer to as "It". Each member of the group has encountered terrifying manifestations of the same menacing clown who attacked Georgie: a headless undead boy (Ben), a sink that spews blood only children can see (Beverly), a diseased and rotting leper (Eddie), a disturbing painting coming alive (Stan), Mike's parents burning alive (Mike), and a frightening phantom of Georgie (Bill). Later, the group befriends orphan Mike Hanlon after rescuing him from Bowers. They find the sneaker of a missing girl named Betty Ripsom, while Patrick is killed by Pennywise while searching the sewers for Ben.īeverly Marsh, a girl bullied over her rumored promiscuity, also joins the group both Bill and Ben develop feelings for her. Targeted by Bowers' gang, Ben flees into the Barrens and meets Bill's group. ![]() Ben Hanscom, one of Bill's new classmates, learns that unexplained tragedies and child disappearances have plagued the town for centuries. He recruits his friends to investigate, believing Georgie may still be alive. Bill, still haunted by Georgie's disappearance, calculates that his brother's body may have washed up in a marshy wasteland called the Barrens. The following summer, Bill and his friends Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, and Stan Uris run afoul of older bully Henry Bowers and his friends Belch Huggins, Patrick Hockstetter, and Victor Criss. Pennywise entices Georgie to come closer, then bites his arm off and drags him into the sewer. As he attempts to retrieve it, Georgie sees a clown in the drain, who introduces himself as "Pennywise the Dancing Clown". Georgie sails the boat along the rainy streets of small town Derry, Maine, only to have it fall down a storm drain. In October 1988, Bill Denbrough crafts a paper sailboat for Georgie, his six-year-old brother. ![]()
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