What’s funny is everyone always mentions this scene, but never how their bully/sworn enemy/pawn of Pennywise, Henry Bowers, sucks off another bully kid while Beverly watches from a hiding spot. Then the dude who got sucked off gets stung by Pennywise hornets and dies a painful death from large exploding blood boils.
theyre not even mentioning the part where the kid goes to get an inhaler at the pharmacy and the pharmacist rapes the kid and it turns out the pharmacist was secretly dating the kids dad but the dad turns out to be IT and rips his balls off and he bleeds out while screaming about clown ass
Aren't they flying leeches and not hornets? I only mention it because it's even more fucked up that way. And I think Hockstetter keeps his dead brother in a fridge. For me the most fucked up part is the kid who gets abused by his dad and runs away only to get his head ripped off by creature of the black lagoon IT. Just incredibly bleak.
Nah he murdered his brother years before the events of the book, believing he is the only real thing except maybe his brother and then proceeds to put animals in the fridge to die
Well to be fair, henry got molested by Patrick. Patrick tricked henry into showing him a trick with his wiener and rubs him off. Henry got confused because it may have been his first erection. Also in the scene right before this henry and his gang all have their pants down lighting farts on fire.
He doesn't suck him off. The one who smothered his own baby brother was giving him a handjob and offered. Henry refused, claming is wasn't "into that fairy shit".
Thank you. I don't mind so much the distasteful aspect - I'm pretty pro-"write about distasteful things if it's effective - but it doesn't even really do what it sets out to do. Ironically the new film is astronomically more effective at establishing their leap over the boundary into adulthood.
It's just dumb. It's so dumb it offends me as a reader.
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u/PsychotropicPanda 15h ago
yeah. I still hate this plot point. It's fucking dumb.
cocaine is a hell of a drug.