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Derry, Maine continues to be the scariest town in America! Join us as we count down our picks for the most terrifying and jaw-dropping scenes from HBO's supernatural horror prequel series. Our countdown includes nightmare-inducing hallucinations, traumatic encounters, and brutal deaths that have left viewers sleeping with the lights on!
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00:00What do you want?
00:07Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the scariest,
00:12coolest, and most surprising scenes in the first half of HBO's supernatural horror series,
00:17It, Welcome to Derry.
00:19Spoilers ahead for episodes 1 through 4.
00:22Marge?
00:25Marge, are you okay?
00:27Ah!
00:28How?
00:29What?
00:32Number 10.
00:34Maddie's Nightmare Car Ride
00:35It, Welcome to Derry, wastes no time delivering deeply unsettling and downright terrifying scares.
00:42We meet Maddie Clements as he flees the movie theater to hitchhike in the snow.
00:46Going by his bruises, it's clear that he lives in an unsafe household,
00:50which makes what happens next all the more awful.
00:53You alright, young man?
00:55Yes.
00:56Look at you.
00:57You poor thing.
00:59Get in before you catch your death in cold.
01:02A seemingly normal family does a good deed by picking him up, but that relief doesn't last long.
01:08From the creepy daughter touching raw liver to the little boy's incessant spelling,
01:13Maddie and the audience are on edge.
01:15The flying mutant baby is disturbing, but watching the pregnant woman suddenly give birth in graphic detail
01:33is a sight that will stay with viewers for a while.
01:36Number 9.
01:37Will Goes Under
01:38By episode 4, it had put Lily and Ronnie through hell.
01:43Unfortunately for Will Hanlon, that means it's his turn to have a traumatizing encounter.
01:47When he's briefly left alone during a father-son fishing trip, the entity transforms into his dad,
01:53a version of Leroy covered in burns from a plane crash just like Will had feared.
01:57A hand pulls him under the water, bringing him face-to-face with the terrifying image of his personal nightmare.
02:17I take my water in the water.
02:18What, son?
02:18Breathe!
02:19What's this?
02:21With you!
02:23You are all burnt like that, but you're up to the water when you went down in that plane!
02:27Son, you gotta relax, you're not making any sense.
02:28Unlike the adults in Derry under the entity's influence, Leroy believes his son,
02:33especially after seeing a floating red balloon, Pennywise's calling card.
02:38Stephen King fans know Will Hanlon's future, making its threat especially chilling.
02:43Number 8.
02:52Teddy's Human Skin Lampshade
02:54In episode 1, we meet Theodore Teddy Uris, the uncle of our Losers Club member Stanley Uris.
03:01At dinner, Teddy asks his father if there's a possibility of a kid being held captive in the sewer,
03:06trying to rationalize Lily's claim of hearing Maddie in the tub drain.
03:10Your grandparents escaped Buchenwald.
03:13Their entire families murdered.
03:16The skin of Jewish prisoners used for lampshades.
03:21Instead of just giving him an answer,
03:22Rabbi Uris reminds him that his grandparents were in the Buchenwald concentration camp,
03:27telling him how the skin of Jewish prisoners was used to make lampshades.
03:31Later that night, Teddy sees his regular bedside lampshade
03:35turn into one stitched together with screaming faces.
03:37The entity couldn't pass up the chance to torment his next victim with the very real horrors of the Holocaust.
03:52Number 7.
04:08Halloran's Trip Into Taniel's Mind
04:10Richard Dick Halloran is an iconic character in the Stephen King universe,
04:14mostly known for his integral role in The Shining.
04:17The 1962 set It, Welcome to Derry, shows him as a young airman in the military,
04:22long before he becomes the head chef at the Overlook Hotel.
04:25Our young Indian friend, Taniel is his name.
04:29He knows the location of exactly what we're looking for.
04:33But he refuses to answer our questions.
04:36So Airman Halloran is going to answer them for us.
04:41General Shaw tasks him with finding the ancient entity buried below Derry
04:45by using his telepathic abilities, or Shine.
04:47The Native American community has a history with the entity.
04:51So they bring in a young man named Taniel.
04:54God, I'm so sorry about this.
05:09Halloran digs deep into his mind,
05:11looking for its precise location and uncovers its origins.
05:14Watching the telepath's seemingly painful yet enlightening mind-entering process
05:19was as exciting as it was intense.
05:37Number 6. The Skeleton Man
05:40Episode 3 begins with a flashback to Derry in 1908.
05:44We follow a boy named Francis,
05:46whom we later find out is a young General Shaw,
05:48as he makes his way through a carnival.
05:50Encouraged by the carnival barker,
05:52Francis enters the grotesque freak show
05:54where a very tall, one-eyed man pops out to scare him.
06:00How do you see it?
06:03Ha ha ha ha!
06:03Ha ha ha ha!
06:06Ha ha ha ha!
06:06Later, when frolicking with his new friend Rose,
06:10he finds himself alone,
06:11giving it the perfect opportunity
06:13to transform into the Skeleton Man
06:15and chase the poor boy through the woods.
06:26The man becomes even scarier
06:28as his limbs elongate
06:29and he unhinges his jaw.
06:31Luckily,
06:32Rose comes in clutch with the slingshot,
06:34a cool nod to Beverly Marsh,
06:36allowing Francis to escape.
06:37Run! Come on!
06:47He's getting closer!
06:48Don't look back!
06:50Number 5.
06:51Halloran finds its lair.
06:53Speaking of that slingshot,
06:54General Shaw has saved it in a box for decades
06:57and gives it to Dick Halloran as a guide.
06:59It works,
07:00allowing him to enter its subterranean lair,
07:03a familiar setting from Andy Muschietti's films,
07:06swirling mountain of victims included.
07:09Who
07:09are
07:11you?
07:13But Halloran gets more than he anticipated
07:15when he's confronted by a pair of glowing yellow eyes
07:18inside Pennywise the Dancing Clown's circus wagon.
07:21He soon realizes that he's lost the upper hand
07:23and his mind is being invaded.
07:25Attempting to flee the cistern,
07:37Halloran nearly falls out of the helicopter
07:39before Leroy Hanlon saves him.
07:41Back at the base,
07:42he warns General Shaw
07:43about continuing to pursue this potential weapon
07:46that's now aware of their presence.
07:48It wasn't supposed to see us.
07:52It wasn't supposed to know.
07:53I got a feeling
07:58we keep on like we're doing
08:00something bad's coming.
08:04Maybe we ought to just let this thing be.
08:07Number 4.
08:08Lily's Supermarket Scare
08:10In the series' new group of victims,
08:12the cosmic entity appears to enjoy tormenting
08:15the kind-hearted Lily Bainbridge the most.
08:17She's mourning her late father
08:19and Maddie's disappearance,
08:20giving it plenty of guilt to feed on,
08:22starting with Maddie's voice in the drain.
08:25Maddie, if it's you,
08:26if you can hear me,
08:28just come home, alright?
08:29Just please come home!
08:34He won't let me!
08:39After she witnessed
08:41the brutal deaths of her friends,
08:42Chief Bowers threatens to send her back
08:44to Jennifer Hill Psychiatric Hospital
08:46unless she admits
08:47Hank Grogan could have been there.
08:49I'm not going to ask you
08:50if you saw Hank Grogan there
08:53at the theater that night.
08:54What I'm going to ask you is
08:56can you be absolutely positively certain
09:02that he wasn't there?
09:05However,
09:06Lily's trip to the grocery store
09:07might be her most upsetting encounter so far.
09:11Navigating the aisles,
09:12she finds herself trapped
09:13in a waking nightmare
09:14with people whispering around her,
09:16then watches in horror
09:18as her dad's remains
09:19assemble into a slimy,
09:20tentacled monster.
09:22Saying poor Lily is traumatized
09:24is an understatement.
09:26Just one kiss
09:28for Papa!
09:32Leave me alone!
09:33Leave me alone!
09:36Number 3.
09:40Marge's Bug Eyes
09:41When we meet Marge Truman,
09:43Lily's bespectacled BFF,
09:44we learn that she's self-conscious
09:46about her glasses
09:47making her look like a
09:48quote,
09:48bug-eyed freak,
09:49which is unfortunately foreshadowing.
09:52What are you looking at?
09:53My eyes?
09:55These new glasses
09:56make them look huge,
09:57don't they?
09:57That optometrist is a sadist.
09:59In episode 4,
10:00Marge is about to come clean
10:02about a mean
10:02patty-cakes planned prank
10:04when she feels her eyes
10:05grow into snail-like eye stalks,
10:07like the parasitic flatworms
10:09they just learned about
10:10in science class.
10:11Marge's anguished screams
10:21to her bloody sockets,
10:23this insane hallucination
10:24is nothing short
10:25of stomach-churning,
10:26especially as she attempts
10:28to remove the stalks
10:29using a chisel and bandsaw.
10:31Lily tries to keep Marge
10:33from further harming herself,
10:34but students and teachers
10:35find what looks like
10:37an unstable girl
10:38attacking her friend
10:39with a weapon.
10:39Seriously?
10:41Lily just cannot
10:42catch a break.
10:50Number 2.
10:51Ronnie escapes the bedwomb
10:53Like all of her friends,
10:54Veronica Ronnie Grogan
10:56is really going through it,
10:58specifically grappling
10:59with her dad
10:59falsely accused
11:00of killing Teddy,
11:01Phil, and Susie.
11:02It uses the guilt
11:03she feels about her mother
11:04dying in childbirth
11:05for an especially cruel hallucination.
11:08One night,
11:09Ronnie goes from lying in bed
11:10to floating inside a womb.
11:12After tearing her way out,
11:24she sees her bed
11:25morph into her deceased mom
11:27with a stomach
11:28that opens into
11:29a sharp-toothed mouth,
11:30pulling her by the umbilical cord,
11:32forcing her to bite her way free.
11:35Talk about psychological torture.
11:37Ronnie's bedwomb scene
11:38is one of the most disturbing,
11:40creative scares
11:40of the series
11:41and reminds us
11:43that these kids
11:43aren't even safe
11:44under the covers.
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12:02From the 1990 miniseries
12:09to Andy Muschietti's films,
12:11Stephen King's It
12:11is well-worn territory by now.
12:14Some fans doubted
12:15the prequel series
12:15would bring anything new
12:17to the franchise.
12:18The premiere's frightening opening
12:19proved otherwise.
12:20Then,
12:21the shocking bloodbath
12:22at the end
12:22completely subverted expectations
12:25by dispatching
12:25most of our new group
12:27of endearing loners.
12:28Lily, Teddy, and Phil
12:29begin investigating
12:30Maddie's disappearance,
12:32with Phil's little sister
12:33Susie tagging along,
12:34leading them to Ronnie
12:35in the Capitol Theater.
12:36I hate musicals
12:37because maybe Maddie
12:39was trying to tell us something.
12:48While watching The Music Man,
12:50a sinister version of Maddie
12:51appears on screen,
12:53unleashing the mutant baby
12:54that brutally attacks
12:55Teddy, Phil, and Susie,
12:57leaving Lily and Ronnie
12:58as the only survivors.
13:00It is a bold move
13:10that paid off,
13:11showing us none
13:12of these characters
13:13are safe.
13:22What moment shocked
13:23you the most?
13:24Let us know
13:25in the comments below.
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13:27who can tell us
13:30in further
13:33to me.
13:34I will show you
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13:35because this movie is
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13:40If you can see
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13:42their vulnerabilities,
13:43make sure
13:43or a bunch of
13:45those things
13:46that they will
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