27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
This movie contains 101 potentially triggering events.
There's a quick moment where a cute, small dog turns into a large monster, but it's more of a funny jump scare than anything disturbing. The dog doesn't die.
Several flashback scenes to Beverly and her father implying sexual and physical abuse, showing verbal abuse, and emotional incest by comparing her to her mother and spraying her with her mother's perfume.
There is excessive alcohol use towards the beginning when the characters are stressed. Its implied that they're not drinking responsibly in the moment, but that's it.
When the group is in the abandoned house, they find a body in the fridge. The head rolls out and soon sprouts legs like a spider. It doesn't leave until the second half of the group climbs through the window and knocks it away.
SPOILER* There is a point where a persons head morphs into a spider creature, it is very disturbing and graphic. There are also a lot of other scenes including minor bugs, but this scene stuck out to me.
In order to beat one of Pennywise's illusions, Bill holds what appears to be Georgie under water until he drowns. However, "Georgie" is only a manifestation of Pennywise, so no humans actually drown. Bill is also briefly trapped underneath a layer of ice while swimming, but escapes.
Calling the gay bashing scene “getting beaten up by a bully” is an extremely minimizing way of putting it but otherwise this is a close enough category. There’s a horrifically triggering scene of two gay men, on the grounds of their sexuality and relationship with each other, getting horribly beaten and one being murdered. In the film, Pennywise is the one who kills him after he’s thrown into a lake without his inhaler (he’s asthmatic) but this is based on a real gay bashing and murder where he died of an asthma attack after being thrown off of the bridge. While I get where Stephen King was coming from when he wrote the gay bashing into the original book, as he was trying to inform people of the real hate crime, the way it’s integrated into the film just feels insensitive IMO (in part because, unlike in the book, the gay bashers face no punishment for this).
At the beginning a kid is seen cutting their hand for the pact they make using glass. A character at the beginning also is scene in a tub with a razor blade near him and later seen dead with blood dripping - the actual cutting is not shown on screen. Another character near the end is is having words curved into his stomach by IT though these go away due to being a (painful) hallucination.
i mean kind of? if you count when pennywise eats people, then yes, however he is not human. it happens at the beginning of the first movie with georgie, another time during the rock fight you can see him eating someones arm, and again at the beginning of the second movie during the hate crime, that’s all i can remember
In the beginning, when Beverly is being attacked by her husband, he briefly grabs her by the neck while she says "you're hurting me". Her voice is strained.
One of It's forms is a young girl with her head on fire.
Later theres a flashback of a child watching his parents hands desperately trying to escape a locked room while they burn to death.
There is two strangulation scenes though. One where one of the main characters is fighting off IT in the form of a leper and he strangles him to get him off of him. This scene is later mentioned by the same character at the end of the movie. Another scene Bev is choked and near strangled by her abusive husband.
A zombie kid has insect legs poke through his eye and another character when being attacked by IT in the form of a leper gouges his eye out with his thumb/finger trying to get it off of him.
Technically not an actual kidnapping, but characters physically suffer like it is.
In a vision Eddie finds his mother kidnapped by the pharmacist, tied to a bed. She's screaming for help.
The first vomit scene is at the 13 minute mark immediately after the car crash. Bill Hader’s character vomits almost onto the camera. Eddie wretches around the 1:34 mark after going into the pharmacy basement, shortly at the 1:38 mark is when the leper vomits black goo on him (it’s almost cartoony and not hyper realistic but still gross). The last scene is at the 1:51 mark. Richie (Bill Hader) vomits after killing someone in the library. All of the vomit scenes are shown visibly on camera. Hoping the time stamps help anyone who’s sensitive to this.
Pennywise begins handing out flyers with a main characters face on them after he is hate crimed by his bully. He hands them around while repeatedly saying 'I know your secret, your dirty little secret'
Yes, a character is imprisoned in an institution and stirs up a commotion/riot amongst the other patients/prisoners, which is delt with physically by the guards. Most of the patients/prisoners exhibit standard stereotypical movie “crazy person” behaviour
this one is pretty severely depicted- we see a psych ward where one of the patients gets excited to see a balloon floating by the window. he stirs up other patients, and the guards deal with him in an agressive manner: he is grabbed by the arms, thrown into his room and shouted at. he escapes by murdering hospital staff and proceeds to stab one of the main characters in the face, who stabs him in the stomach in self defence. the mentally ill person survives this, and later returns to attempt to kill the same person as before, but is killed by another character before doing any major harm to anyone else. this is something of a running side-plot and could be very upsetting to anyone sensitive to this topic
I would say yes because Ben grows up to lose weight and that is a source of contention and fear for him with Pennywise, that he will always be the fact kid. This doesn’t fit the typical stereotype of body dysmorphia, but his shame and being shamed by pennywise may cause issues for some.
No, but if you're someone who's triggered by mentions of eating disorders there is a ton of fat jokes, fat shaming, and comments about weight and appearance that may also be triggering.
both in the sense that the clown is implied to be watching the losers (main characters) and with mike somehow keeping up with unknown sensitive information despite the other main characters' amnesia. these could both be something that need to be pointed out to be aware of, though.
Not explicitly, however Pennywise's cross-eyed effect (where one eye is on the other characters and the other faces the viewer) is a bit more obvious than in the first film.
There is a graphic and disturbing hate crime against a gay couple in the opening scene. They both suffer and one is brutally beaten before being killed.
There are many scenes with blood and gore, the bloodiest is when Beverly nearly drowns in a bathroom stall that floods with blood, this is towards the end of the movie