IT Deleted Scene That Was Deemed Too Disturbing For Theatrical Release Saw Pennywise Eating A Baby
Pennywise actor Bill Skarsgard recently alluded to a scene that was cut from the new IT adaptation because it was deemed too disturbing, and we now have the grisly details of what it would have entailed...
We know that the new IT movie wisely chose to exclude the notorious underage gangbang sequence from Stephen King's novel, but an equally disturbing scene was actually shot before being deemed too gruesome for the theatrical release.
Pennywise actor Bill Skarsgard dropped a few hints as to what this flashback scene entailed in a recent interview, but now thanks to a script excerpt that surfaced over at Bloody Disgusting, we can read the horrific details for ourselves in full.
She’s shaking, doesn’t want to let go. Behind her, the Door OPENS. A Little Boy, 6, asks — BOY: Mama? ABIGAIL: NO! OUT! NOW! Frightened by his mother, the Boy runs. Abigail turns back to Pennywise. Wherever he may be now in the room. The light somehow seems to spin faster now. She kisses her baby and sets it down. It BAWLS. ABIGAIL: I’m sorry, I’m so sorry… She turns away from the baby. Faces those dying embers. We keep on her face as they seem to begin GLOWING BRIGHTER AS — OVER HER SHOULDER — OUT OF FOCUS — Pennywise crawls over to the Baby and starts to feast. SHARP CRY FROM THE BABY CUT OFF as we hear a CRUNCH. Abigail continues to look into the BRIGHT ORANGE GLOW of not the flickering fire… but the DEADLIGHTS. Her expression changing. Fear. Denial. Grief. Acceptance. And then nothing. Just a glazed look.
As Skarsgard previously revealed, the scene in question takes place in the 1600s and would have served as an origin story of sorts for the demonic clown.
The full sequence (which you can read about HERE) would have featured a more human-looking, shape-shifting Pennywise offering Abigail the choice of willingly sacrificing her baby, or having her entire family wiped out - much like what went down in the sewers between the malevolent creature and the Losers' Club towards the end of the film.
It sounds pretty damn terrifying, but perhaps it was best left on the cutting room floor! What do you guys think?
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