IT: Welcome to Derry
IT: Welcome to Derry
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IT: Welcome to Derry (2025)

8.2/ 10

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26 Oct 2025

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Drama
Mystery

In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising unease prompts several townspeople to work together to restore peace – all while a U.S. military operation seeks to exploit Derry for its own objectives.

Keywords

based on novel or book
small town
clown
prequel
disappearance
psychotic
dead children
questioning
1960s
grim
supernatural horror
children in danger
psychological horror
dramatic
suspenseful
horror
horrified

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Reviews(5)

4.3avg rating
Dasha K

Dasha K

@Koffeelk

October 28, 2025

1
1/10

**The show is written for pre-teens and it feels like a silly WB series 🤢** I'm really disappointed with this latest TV show from HBO. The acting is absolutely atrocious, and the writing isn't much better. And I never notice stuff like CGI, but some of the "monster" special effects in this look

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MovieGuys

October 28, 2025

3
3/10

"IT Welcome to Derry" is horrifying for all the wrong reasons. This is a lobotomised, grotesque, over the top, wholly wrong headed, poorly scripted mess. A largely unrecognisable departure from the vastly superior novel and films. The only real upsides I can see is quality acting and solid p

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forzamc

December 16, 2025

8
8/10

Fog, Fear, and Family Curses: Welcome to Derry Season 1 Review HBO's Welcome to Derry Season 1 chills the spine of Stephen King's It universe, unearthing 1962 Derry's festering secrets in a taut eight-episode prequel. Showrunners Andy Muschietti and Tommy Brennan sidestep the Losers' glow, spotligh

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tender_buttkiss

December 25, 2025

5
5/10

IT's hard to make a prequel series after the success of the newest IT films with all the knowledge of how things turn out. My hope going into this series was it would go into how Pennywise came to be. And while it did to some degree, it really didn't explain much. Production value was great, but

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amnyg

January 8, 2026

Absolutely amazing. The casting and the acting was done so well. The graveyard scene was so bad but other than that all the episodes were amazing, dare i say this is the best one yet in the IT franchise they've made. The kids were definitely i wasn't expecting, they did their characters so well!

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