{"id":4930,"date":"2017-10-11T09:50:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T13:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:08:45","slug":"its-all-the-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2017\/10\/11\/its-all-the-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"IT\u2019s All the Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0By now you\u2019ve probably heard of the new \u201cIT\u201d movie sweeping horror movie fans off\u00a0 <\/span>their feet. It\u2019s Based on the book of the same name by Maine native Stephen King. The first \u201cIT\u201d mini TV series was released 27 years ago and, while a classic, was brought to life in a whole different way with modern minds and technology. While the face of the famous clown, Pennywise, has been changed for the new generation, the new image still strikes fear into its clown-weary audience. UMPI\u00a0 <\/span>Sophomore Tiffany Smith even claimed that the 2017 Pennywise appears far more sinister to her than the original one played by Tim Curry. With the same classic plot guiding the film through the eyes of the fearful children of Derry, Maine, there are sure to be original scenes that surprise and chill you.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>The 2017 film focuses more on the children\u2019s adventures, whereas the original mini-series and book focus on the adult versions of the children for a majority of the time. \u201cIt\u2019s about an evil entity that plays upon and manipulates people\u2019s fears to lure them to him,\u201d Smith said about the film\u2019s plot.<\/p>\n

With easy-to-love children characters and a far too easy-to-fear clown, this remake pleased many fans of the original tale and brought new fans in who had never experienced \u201cIT\u201d before. Emma Gogan, a student at UMPI who went to see IT with her friends, said \u201cMy whole group of friends were jumping.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Whether you\u2019re a Stephen King fan or someone who just likes to be scared this movie is worth its two hours and 15 minute running time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0By now you\u2019ve probably heard of the new \u201cIT\u201d movie sweeping horror movie fans off\u00a0 their feet. It\u2019s Based on the book of the same name by Maine native Stephen King. The first \u201cIT\u201d mini TV series was released 27 years ago and, while a classic, was brought to life in a whole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8799,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions\/8799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}