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‘It: Welcome to Derry’: Director Andy Muschietti Breaks Down the Series’ Most Horrifying Sequence Yet

December 8, 2025

Dec 7, 2025 7:00pm PT ‘It: Welcome to Derry’: Director Andy Muschietti Breaks Down the Series’ Most Horrifying Sequence Yet By Andrew McGowan Plus Icon Andrew McGowan Latest ‘It: Welcome to Derry’: Director Andy Muschietti Breaks Down the Series’ Most Horrifying Sequence Yet 10 minutes ago ‘Palm Royale’ Creator Abe Sylvia Talks Filming in LA at Hollywood Chamber Entertainment Industry Conference: ‘Don’t Underestimate the Power of Telling an Actor They Get to Sleep in Their Own Bed’ 2 days ago Ginnifer Goodwin on ‘Zootopia 3’ Hopes and the Judy-Nick Romance Debate: ‘Without Question, These Characters Are Soulmates’ 3 days ago See All Courtesy of HBO SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Season 1, Episode 7 of “It: Welcome to Derry,” now streaming on HBO Max. If there was ever any speculation that the horrors explored in HBO’s “It: Welcome to Derry” were purely supernatural, Episode 7 put those questions to rest. After a flashback cold open that shows the origins of Pennywise the Clown (Bill Skarsgård), the episode picks up where the previous one left off, with a gun-wielding, mask-wearing mob of the eponymous town’s white citizens infiltrating the Black Spot: a hangout for the Black soldiers on Derry’s military base, and a hideout for the town’s falsely accused fugitive, Hank Grogan (Stephen Rider).

Pennywise in "It: Welcome to Derry."

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The tension is briefly broken when the mob lowers their weapons and retreats, but the relief is temporary, as they lock the doors from the outside, throw Molotov cocktails into the building and riddle its walls with bullets.
Popular on Variety The shoot-off continues as the Black Spot burns down with dozens of people inside — many of them central characters in the series, including most of the main ensemble of children.
It is a raw and violent sequence, expanded upon from a brief chapter in Stephen King’s original “It” novel.
Courtesy of HBO As it is in the novel, the scene showcases the grounded horrors taking place in Derry, but they are made even more eerie by the ghostly apparitions that soon crowd the massacre.

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