Which clown was the most scariest?The old school pennywise? Or the new school pennywise?
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Which clown was the most scariest?The old school pennywise? Or the new school pennywise?
Definitely the new Pennywise. I did find the look of the old Pennywise scarier looking, since one of my biggest fears is clowns and the old one is nice colorful and seemed to look more clowny.
I chose old school Pennywise because it's scarier, to me, when a clown can pass for normal or happy. I think that's how he lured kids...just think about the opening scene with Georgie.
In the newer version, the reason Georgie wasn't scared of this clown in the drain was because it was mostly in shadows and it had changed its voice.
I chose the new one.
He is much more Psychopathic
...welcome to our two newbs...noobs....knewbs???.....and I can't choose, because Tim Curry is an old favorite and Bill's "edition" is damned fine as well....
I'm going with new Pennywise. Tim Curry was the best thing about the miniseries, but I think the latest portrayal is so much creepier. That said, I wish he would've been given a bit more to do.
Old school. Because he can pass for a *real* clown, as Doc Creed pointed out. No kid -- or adult -- would go up to the new Pennywise to get a balloon.
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This is a interesting question. The new film's Pennywise has enormous creep-factor. In that respect, i.e. the carnival haunted house aspect, it wins hands down. However, the mini-series Pennywise captured a lot of the monster's humor. There was a certain intellectual level of terror. Good horror has many levels, the lowest being the gross out. The newer film is scarier, but let's face it... not a fair competition. One was a made for TV movie while the other was an R-Rated film. 
In my opinion, apples & oranges. The new film was scarier, of course. The kids were absolutely fantastic. But I wasn't impressed with the new Pennywise. I forgot him as soon as I left the theater. We're only talking about him because Tim Curry made such an indelible impression as Pennywise in the miniseries. Without it, and him, this film wouldn't have been made. And I mean THIS film. A different "IT" based on the book would have been done sometime in the last 30 yrs or so had the miniseries not aired. Peter Strab's masterpiece Ghost Story was filmed horribly in 1980, and has not been attempted since. So there is no way of knowing how these things will turn out.
I have a huges soft spot for old Pennywise as like many others I grew up watching the miniseries and Tim Curry gives a delightfully entertaining performance. However new Pennywise seems more in line with what I pictured reading the book. In the novel Pennywise very often makes no pretenses about how evil and savage he/it/she us barre the storm drain encounter.
Old was scarier to me, but that was all Tim Curry. He made that character his. The new one wasn't bad, either. Not as scary to me, but definitely creepy. I'm glad Bill Skarsgard created his own interpretation.