It Chapter Two (2019)

In 2016, It has returned to Derry, Maine and is killing children again. The only member of the Losers Club currently in the town, Mike Hanlon, calls the other members, Bill Denbrough, Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, and Stanley Uris to honor the promise they made 27 years ago to kill It if it came back. All of them travel back with hazy memories except for Stan, who kills himself out of his fear of the creature. At a restaurant, Mike refreshes the Losers with memories before It torments them with hallucinations and Stan’s suicide. Richie and Eddie decide to leave until Beverly reveals that she has had psychic visions of their deaths should they fail to fulfill their promise. Mike shows Bill, via a drug-induced vision, that the Native American “Ritual of Chüd” can stop It for good.

Mike explains that the ritual requires items from their past to be sacrificed. The members’ searches of these involve traumatizing encounters with It, mostly its main form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown; one of these involves Pennywise taunting Richie about his sexuality, and another prompts Eddie to defend himself and for It to shrink and flee. Henry Bowers, whom It frees from a mental institution Henry was sent to after being arrested for murdering his father, also hunts the Losers. He attacks Eddie at the Losers’ hotel, and then Mike at the library, but Richie kills him. The Losers rejoin Bill, who just failed to save a young boy named Dean from being killed by It, at the Neibolt House, talking him out of facing It alone.