This post contains major spoilers for "It: Welcome to Derry" and its source material.

Stephen King's "It" is chock-full of harrowing moments. Andy Muschietti's "It: Welcome to Derry" preserves this dark tone by leaning into gory gruesomeness, some of which has been really effective at conjuring fear. That said, there are drawbacks to such an unsubtle, no-holds-barred approach . The story has dwelt a bit too much on Pennywise's origins to the point of demystifying him, and an overreliance on gross imagery doesn't always land as intended. But episode 7 adapts one of the most disturbing moments from "It" to chilling effect — The Black Spot fire, which was a targeted hate crime against the bar's Black patrons, who were deliberately locked inside by a white supremacist cult in Derr

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