Andre Muschietti’s adaptation of ‘IT’ one of the five scariest movies ever made

Andre’s adaptation of IT is one of the five scariest movies ever made. It’s tremendously humane, you love the characters in it, ... Joe Hill, writer

ANDRES Muschietti's reimagining of ‘IT' has been described as “one of the five scariest movies ever made”.

The new big screen version of Stephen King's chilling novel about a child killer on the loose in an American town - which was turned into a 1990 TV mini-series starring Tim Curry as terrifying clown Pennywise - is set to hit cinemas this September.

Reports from the shoot and the reaction to the trailer have set expectations sky high and now horror fiction writer Joe Hill - who is King's son - has spilled that he has seen the movie and insists it is a frightening as cinematic horror classics like ‘The Exorcist' and ‘The Thing'.

Hill - whose books include ‘20th Century Ghosts' and ‘Heart Shaped Box' - said: “Andre's adaptation of IT is one of the five scariest movies ever made. It's tremendously humane, you love the characters in it, but it is just relentlessly terrifying. Only ‘Jaws', ‘The Exorcist', John Carpenter's ‘The Thing' and ‘Let the Right One In' are scarier. It's that good. It's that brilliant.” ‘IT' follows a group of young children who are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against evil clown Pennywise in Derry, Maine, after multiple children go missing.