Surprisingly, “IT” is the Best Comedy Film of the Summer

I was dreading the press screening for the remake of the classic Stephen King horror novel-turned-film IT. Don’t get me wrong, I have this weird pull towards horror. Growing up, I was into watching Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees be colossal jackasses; but the thing was, I had control over the remote. If shit got a little too spooky for me, I could switch to another channel really quickly and then come back to the aftermath. I can’t do that in a movie theater. So, I was not looking forward to being scared shitless in a crowd full of people I didn’t know, and I definitely was not looking forward to being afraid of a demonic clown trying to rip my face off in my apartment in front of my cats. Real quick plot; Sleepy and quaint Derry, Maine isn’t particularly special except for one bone-chilling fact: Every 27 years many of the town’s children go missing. No one really truly understands why and for some reason, not many people remember. It isn’t until young teen Bill’s (Jaeden Lieberher) kid brother Georgie goes missing that the rest of the Derry’s misfits, The Losers’ Club, band together to fight the evil lurking underneath the facade of charming small-town life. If you are familiar with Stephen King, you probably have heard of IT — it definitely influenced the cultural paranoia and aversion of clowns. This creepy being manifests into Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and feeds off the fear of his victims. IT is able to conjure whatever you’re terrified of the most, and if you can…