The novel “It” by Stephen King was published for the first time in 1986. It won the British Fantasy Award.

1957. Georgie Denbrough is taking advantage of the heavy rains to play on the streets of Derry with a paper boat. When it ends up into a gutter, Georgie fears he lost it, but in the gutter’s opening he sees the face of a clown who starts talking to him. When Georgie approaches, the entity with the appearance of a clown kills him tearing him to pieces. It’s just the first of a series of murders that strike Derry.

1985. Mike Hanlon is Derry’s librarian and realizes that a new cycle of strange murders has begun so he calls his six old friends who moved elsewhere but many years before sworn that they would return to Derry if that happened. They had completely forgotten the events of their childhood but Mike’s call starts restoring those memories with the horrors attached to them.