You might think it’s just a killer clown with a red balloon and a creepy smile—but that’s only the surface. The reality ...

Pennywise is a character made popular by Stephen King's horror novel IT. He is a clown who targets children and murders them.

This includes, of course, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, the principal antagonist ... there was something more evil behind the exaggerated smiles and makeup. It was hard to top, of course.

There are four guarantees in life: death, taxes, reboots and creepy clowns hanging out in the sewers of Stephen King stories.

What’s fun about him is that a clown is traditionally a very cozy, comforting kind of cheery image, and Pennywise is none of these things. I think of him all the time as a smile gone bad ...

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However, in It, the Losers’ Club “defeated” Pennywise with The Ritual of Chüd and, eventually, smashing its heart into pieces. Now whether or not Pennywise is actually dead is complicated.

He searches for Ben, entering the sewers. There, he finds zombie children that Pennywise made him see. Running in the opposite direction, the clown gets him trapped in a dead end and holds up a ...

“Should I smile for the cameras with my ‘hideous ... in person in the run-up to Hallowe’en. Tim Curry as Pennywise the Clown in Stephen King’s It Credit: KOBAL COLLECTION Heather ...