IT (the first in a planned duo of films adapting Stephen King‘s classic novel) initially centers on The Losers Club in Derry, Maine in the 1980s. Following the disappearance of a young boy named Georgie at the hands of a demonic clown named Pennywise, the kids in Derry begin to suspect that there’s something not quite right in their seemingly idyllic town. As they dive deeper and deeper into the mystery, they soon uncover a terrifying secret that will haunt them for the rest of their lives. There is, of course, plenty of anticipation surrounding the film (particularly because of its distance from Tim Curry‘s iconic portrayal of Pennywise in the original miniseries), but this version of IT does look like an entirely different beast altogether.