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It's also undeniably best remembered for Tim Curry's mesmerising acting masterclass as Pennywise the Dancing Clown - as transformative a performance as anyone has ever given on screens big or small.

Pennywise is haunting a new generation of horror fans thanks to the recent-ish IT films directed by Andy Muschetti. Like many small towns, Derry is indeed a scary place with a dancing clown that ...

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That might not sound scary, but when Hannibal ... solidified himself as the definitive dancing clown. Just as Skarsgård wasn’t the first actor to play Pennywise, Brian Cox portrayed Hannibal ...

After the launch of ‘It’, Pennywise was reborn as one of the scariest characters in mainstream culture and Google Trends revealed that clowns were emerging as the third most popular scary costume ...