It’s funny, at times dark, and tactfully hard-hitting. Truly more than another midlife boozer flick, Another Round sees Mads Mikkelsen in top form as Martin, the de facto onscreen leader who attempts to gain more out of his day-to-day through mild intoxication. More specifically, the colleagues want to see if maintaining a constant blood-alcohol level of 0.5 will improve their creativity and overall mood. Facing unenthused students, trouble at home, and other midlife hardships, the foursome agrees to test the theories of psychiatrist Finn Skårderud in the workplace. With an original Danish title of Druk (“binge drinking”), co-writer and director Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round follows a group of four high school teachers with a wild plan. In I Think We’re Alone Now, director Reed Morano creates a world where isolation is less a curse and more a blessing, where companionship begins as an adversarial force and slowly unravels into something potentially more meaningful. That is until one fateful day, when a woman named Grace (Elle Fanning) arrives, disrupting Del’s idyllically quiet day-to-day. Peter Dinklage stars as Del, a man who embraces a life of solitude in the wake of a global pandemic that has seemingly eradicated the rest of mankind. While there were a countless number of differences between the two, Stephen King's message always remains the same: Our childhood fears are never too far away.Have you ever heard of the classic Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough at Last” about a book-loving bank teller who finds solace in a post-apocalypse rid of humanity, but filled with plenty of excellent reading material? While the “last man on Earth” narrative has received plenty of cinematic attention over the years, each stab at the formula may be traced back to Burgess Meredith’s Twilight Zone episode, with 2018’s I Think We’re Alone Now serving as yet another homage to it. Decades have gone by since the novel turned dreams of carnival trips into nightmares of hellish clowns for readers, and the modern movies only cemented the fact that those nightmares would continue. Updated by Lianna Tedesco on October 7th, 2020: With Halloween rapidly approaching and three years since the IT movies graced the big screen, it was time to take a look back at some of the most horrifying differences between both the novel and the movies, parts one and two included. RELATED: Our 13 Biggest Unanswered Questions After IT Chapter Two We've gone ahead and ranked the scariest things Pennywise the Dancing Clown did in the movies, before discussing the the most terrifying moments that didn't make into the films. To celebrate Hollywood's creepiest clown (sorry, Joker), we're examining Pennywise's role in Stephen King's original novel as well as IT and IT Chapter Two. While anyone who read the novel would find it difficult to believe that Pennywise could be any scarier, Mama director Andy Muschietti was able to take the demonic clown to an entirely new level of creepy, modernizing the character for both fans of the original and new viewers. The second ill-fated Georgie surrogate in IT Chapter Two, Dean now lives in Bill Denbroughs old house. From the moment the horrifying shape-shifter appeared to Georgie in a storm drain, he has terrified thousands of readers/viewers around the world. Dean, aka, The Boy in the Hall of Mirrors. Originating in Stephen King's iconic and universally adored IT(1986), Pennywise the Dancing Clown has become one of the most recognizable and utterly terrifying creatures the horror genre has ever produced.
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