: The town is portrayed as having a dark, repetitive history of tragedies that the adult population largely ignores or forgets due to the influence of the entity.
: Beyond the horror, the film serves as a nostalgic coming-of-age story about the strength of friendship and the loss of childhood innocence. Setting: Derry, Maine Derry, Maine. IT (2017)
: The children must overcome their individual traumas—ranging from abusive parents to societal racism—and band together to fight the monster in its lair within the town's sewers. : The town is portrayed as having a
The story concludes with the Losers' Club successfully defeating Pennywise (for now) and making a blood oath to return to Derry if the monster ever resurfaces, setting the stage for IT Chapter Two . The story concludes with the Losers' Club successfully
The story of in the 2017 film IT (also known as IT: Chapter One ) follows a group of seven outcast children who call themselves the " Losers' Club " . Set in the summer of 1989, the narrative begins when local children start mysteriously disappearing, including Georgie Denbrough, the younger brother of the group's leader, Bill.
: A marshy area in Derry where the Losers' Club hangs out and eventually finds the entrance to Pennywise’s lair.
The Losers' Club discovers that their town is being terrorized by a shape-shifting, ancient being that primarily appears as . This entity emerges every 27 years to feed on the fear of children before consuming them.