本のイツズ (Hon no Izzu)

It's interesting to note that even at this point, Bill already can sense that Stan (not Richie, nor Eddie, Ben, Beverly, Mike) was their weak link and that he needed to calm Stan's fear first before the fear starts to affect the rest of the group.

Bill seemed a bit possessed here... but looking back, at this point Bill is probably the closest to the Turtle and connected to the Turtle's power.

As they entered the old house, Ben and the others began to realise that the house they were entering wasn't quite what it seemed...

Something I appreciate about the movie to have... which was the scene of the kids venturing into the Neibolt house. Well, kinda. While it's cool that the movie got the Neibolt scene, it's not like the movie portrayed the things that happen in the book accurately.

Another loose caps that I forgot to post before the earlier Neibolt post.

As much as Patrick didn't appear so often in the novel (and I think he barely appears or mentioned in the miniseries) his death was probably the most graphically brutal of all the deaths in this novel. But I suppose since Patrick was supposed to be even more psychotic than Henry, his death would have to be even more gruesome.

The timelines in the story can get pretty confusing to be honest, but I guess it can't be helped since the novel did juggle a lot of things happening in Derry and a lot of times those things did happen at the same time. That said...

But I suppose, before we could really delve into Patrick's death... we really do need to know the 'story' behind the abandoned fridge or else what happened afterwards wouldn't have made sense. Since one thing led to another and so on; as in Patrick had his first taste of taking a life when he killed his baby brother and while he's aware that it was not something he should do in the open (because the world had its rules) he couldn't quite let it go.

So Patrick killed flies, but that's still not enough... but then he found the fridge and there're plenty of stray animals that he could pick up and 'play' with...

Thus unbeknownst to all, Patrick had turned an old abandoned fridge into a killing chamber. But this shouldn't be surprising anymore since it's Derry.

Yanno, when Patrick was first introduced as this weird kid in the class who was very creepy and had a weird hobby of collecting dead flies, I didn't expect that the kid would hide an even darker secret. But I guess since It's presence is everywhere in Derry, the people living in It were bound to be influenced by It in one way or another.

I guess all of the homophobic gay stuff that's been all over the novel eventually was supposed to lead to this. Like the incident involving Adrian Mellon and the homophobic bullies (who also had a strange resemblance to Henry's gang behaviour and personality) as well as the leper that haunted Eddie's nightmare; It seemed to have this perverse 'habit' to try to engage in sexual acts with Its potential prey... which I supposed was another way for it to 'season the meat'.

I mean... as the leper, It did try to get Eddie to let It give him a BJ...