
few days ago while wandering the YouTube chance I met the gaze of Pennywise, so many years that I could not see the eyes, yet his eyes felt as fresh as the first time I saw him through a TV from those to which we had to close and turn a knob in order to change channels, such as casual encounter brought a few things to my memory, but most of all filled me with doubts, because for sure no greatest thing reminded of the movie and started to wonder with friends, the answer was always the same, thanks to that damn clown had grown up hating the clown, until a friend who if you are serious about being a collector, told me that had the original film, the official t-shirt and the doll itself.
Well it turns out, comes from a novel called It written by Stephen King, yes, the marketing genius of terror and one of the favorite authors of Harold Bloom, when launching their most vicious darts is clear, published in the year '86 and tells us how in the peaceful, idyllic community of Derry in the basement there is someone with a serious interest on terror, someone called That and periodically will breed violence on the surface, until decide to go and see what happens in the streets and finds no fitter than a friendly clown gradually becomes ruthless, especially when faced with a bunch of guys who wear the peculiar name Losers.




With the homogenization of pop culture as the only modern western bastion, were taking shape calls urban legends, many of whom were born film or TV, or at least used the media to reach the masses, succeeding in a successful manner, so that dreams and nightmares of all generations are usually a logo of Made In USA , displacing the local idiosyncrasies and myths, which has standardized in terms of our identity, and so they were very clever, but it is undeniable how much we enjoyed that face some kind of pop and how much we miss today, these icons will not ever let us sleep, but if someone has recovered and sleep, both films promise to remake or sequel for next year, or the nightmare continues ...