
And on this tongue, like weird tumbleweeds that had taken temporary root there, were a number of orange puffs.” “The bird’s tongue was silver, its surface as crazy-cracked as the surface of a volcanic land which has first baked and then slagged off.

From the cosmically awesome to the grotesquely horrifying, here are nine strange scenes from Stephen King’s IT that didn’t make it into the films. And when you’re dealing with the work of Stephen King, some of that omitted material is going to be, to put it mildly, pretty weird.Īlthough both recent IT films included more than their fair share of oddness - IT Chapter Two's scene of Stan Uris' decapitated head sprouting spider legs and attacking the Losers wasn’t exactly your standard, run-of-the-mill nightmare fuel - they still barely even approach how bizarre things get can in the book. Although five hours worth of film sounds like a lot, when it comes to adapting such a massive tale, there’s bound to be a significant amount of material that doesn’t make the final cut. IT Chapter Two may clock in at a bladder-bursting 170 minutes, but even combined with the 150 minutes of IT Chapter One, the films can’t hold a candle to the massive scale of the book, which spins its time-hopping narrative out over a door-stopping 1100ish pages. This article contains SPOILERS for Stephen King’s “IT,” as well as the films IT: Chapter One and IT: Chapter Two.
