IT: Welcome to Derry (2025)

Andrew and Barbara Muschetti, who brought the It remake films to the big screen, re-team with Chapter Two co-producer Jason Fuchs as creators of this prequel series set twenty-seven years before the events of the first film. That’s when a young Matty (Miles Ekhardt) decides to leave the town of Derry, Maine only to picked up by a car where a pregnant woman (Zoë Barrett-Wood) immediately births a bloody demon baby. That’s our intro to the work of the evil entity that can appear as anything, but usually takes the form of a killer clown named Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård). It’s Matty’s mysterious disappearance that the town is dealing with when a man named Leroy Hanlon (Jovan Adepo) moves to Derry to work on the local army base, bringing his wife Charlotte (Taylour Paige) and their son Will (Blake Cameron James) with him. If you’ve seen the lone nudity in Chapter Two, Zoë’s gory lady garden is just par for the course in this franchise, but perhaps moving things to the known-for nudity HBO Max will eventually lead to more frightening flesh!