He is one of the scariest monsters in cinema: here’s how the clown was created from the movie

This is simply one of the scariest monsters in cinema. The evil clown Pennywise (the original version of Pennywise) appears in two feature films that have been adapted that, Stephen King’s iconic novel, whose controversial scene was never adapted for the screen, has undoubtedly given many people nightmares. But how did the master of horror create this terrifying character?

When Stephen King starts working on a novel that By the 80s he was already an established and well-known author, especially with such classics as Carrie or shines. In an interview at a public event in Hamburg in 2013, the American revealed the inspiration behind the evil creature, which takes the form of a clown and terrorizes seven children.

“When I was living in Colorado, I had this idea of ​​writing a really long book where everyone was a monster.”Stephen King declares first The Comicbook site reported in the comments. “I told myself that if people thought I was a horror writer—I never thought of myself as one, but as a writer—then I had to collect all the monsters, as many as possible. There would be a vampire, a werewolf, and more. A mummy.”

“But then I said to myself, we need some kind of creature that is scary, evil, disgusting, a creature that you don’t want to see, that makes you scream just at the sight of it.”continues the American. “Then I asked myself, ‘What scares children the most in the world?’ The answer was clowns.”

So I created Pennywise the clown.Stephen King concludes. “Then ABC came along and they said they wanted to make it into a mini-series Tim Curry as a character. I thought it was a strange idea, but it really worked and it scared a whole generation of young people into fearing clowns. As they say, clowns have always scared children.”

Four years after the novel was published thatSo a mini-series was born, the prankster imagined by Stephen King was at the center of two films that were released in cinemas in 2017 and 2019 respectively. And the creature didn’t end up shaking the audience: the origin-centered series. The character is actually being prepared for the HBO Max platform.

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