The Eater of Worlds - and of Children: Reviewing IT
18 min readSep 8, 2019
(A version of this article was published at The Talking Book, 2/10/17)
Many have praised the child actors in It - and with good reason; few have praised the film for being especially horrifying. The consensus growing that It is a ‘great modern horror’ seems to be more down to the former than the latter.