The Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host.

If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome.

Usually on this podcast, we explore and dissect

the evolution of the horror genre one series at a time.

Right now, we're in the middle of a little summer break, but we're bringing you a bonus

episode to review and discuss in depth one of the most anticipated horror movies of the

year, what will probably be one of the biggest grossing horror movies of the year, It Chapter 2,

which came out in cinemas this week. It Chapter 2, of course, as I'm sure you all know, is the much

anticipated follow-up to It Chapter 1 from 2017 and it's an adaptation of the

second half, the concluding half of Stephen King's classic novel about a bunch of kids in a town called

Dairy being terrorized by a clown called Pennywise. So this discussion will be

initially spoiler-free. The first half of this episode, we will not spoil anything about the film.

Me and my guest will simply be lending our thoughts and discussing whether or not we think the film did a good job.

And then in the second half of the episode after a spoiler warning

we will discuss the movie at length and in depth.

Not only that you're going to hit a little bit of my at length and in depth.

Not only that you're going to hit a little bit of my interview with it director Andy

Muschetti and producer, his sister Barbara Macheti.

So all of that is still to come. Now if you're a Patreon

subscriber you'll know that this episode is actually a sort of second part of a

two-part it extravaganza. Over on the Patreon channel I was joined by Charlie Albright and we discussed every single

sort of incarnation of it leading up to this point so we discussed Stephen King's original novel, we talked about the

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