Top 10 Facts About Pennywise

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Pennywise is a well-known horror character from Stephen King's It, portrayed by Tim Curry in the 1990 television miniseries and by Bill Skarsgård in the 2017 film adaptation. Both actors portrayed the clown in some of the most terrifying ways possible.

1. Pennywise appears in other Stephen King novels

   

   Despite being vanquished at the conclusion of It, King has trotted out Pennywise in other titles. The most notable is in his 1987 novel The Tommyknockers, where a character travels through Derry and believes he sees a clown lurking in a storm drain. In another one of his novels, Dreamcatcher, another character spots a spray-painted "Pennywise Lives" across a water tower in Derry.

2. Its clown form is seen more in the movie than in the book

   

   In both the book and the movie, Pennywise the Dancing Clown is It's favorite form to take. That being said, the clown really doesn't appear as often as one might think in the original novel.

   It is a shapeshifter, and it loves to show off the various things its victims are afraid of. This could have allowed for some seriously creative monsters and nightmarish forms for It to take. Instead, the filmmakers opted for focusing mainly on the clown to reach a more universally scary appearance.

3. Tim Curry thought of Pennywise as a "smile gone bad"

   

   He believed Pennywise was a master of psychological torture. "Pennywise turns out not to be that physical, actually. It's mostly mental cruelty," is what he said in an interview.

4. It's not even from this universe

   

   When they were explaining the origins of Pennywise on Earth, they could have easily explained that he wasn't just an alien, but that he actually came from a different dimension.

5. Pennywise may be female

   

   His spider form appears to be a pregnant female spider, leading some characters in the book, as well as fans of the book, to speculate that he's actually a she.

6. Its enemy is a turtle

   

   Not even kidding, you can look this all up. But despite the fact that he is powerful enough to create universes, he was not powerful enough to defeat It.

7. Pennywise is only awake for a year

   

   Pennywise's hibernation cycles seem to be pretty specific. Pennywise goes into a deep sleep state for 27 years at a time, but when he awakens to feed, he's awake for about a year each time.

8. No one knows Pennywise's true form

   

9. Pennywise rarely ever blinks

   

   It (sometimes capitalized as IT), more commonly known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, is the main antagonist of Stephen King's novel It, as well as its 1990 television miniseries and the 2017 film adaptation. It is a shapeshifting and ancient malevolent entity that is millions, possibly billions, of... read more

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