Bill Skarsgård is reprising his role as Pennywise in Welcome to Derry, Max's upcoming It prequel series. As well as bringing back the flame-haired clown, Skarsgård is also serving as an executive ...

Stephen King's It is renowned for its creepy main character, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, who terrorizes children in Derry, Maine and increases coulrophobia in real life. However, the true identity of ...

Pennywise is an ancient cosmic being, not just a killer clown- operates on a Lovecraftian level of horror. Misconceptions about Pennywise dilute his psych-horror undertones in popular culture- his ...

"It was this weird thing where I was trying to separate myself from this thing," said the actor Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection; Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection Bill Skarsgård's ...

A childhood fear of clowns is common, with Stephen King using this phobia to create the terrifying Pennywise in It. King's inspiration for Pennywise came from his own fear of clowns, heightened by a ...