10 Best Horror Movies And Series Starring The Cast From "It" – Screen Rant

Besides Stephen King's "It," what other horror movies and TV series has the cast starred in?

Andy Muschietti's reimagining of the terrifying Stephen King novelIt, released in two parts, is the most profitable horror movie of all time. Beating out other major box office successes likeThe Sixth Sense,Itearned over $700 million in worldwide theatres, whileIt Chapter Twofollowed with $473 million in profits.

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Much of the films's success lies with its talented cast, who portray members of the Derry, Maine Losers Club as both children and adults. These actors, it turns out, have some serious genre street cred. From the small screen to the big screen, the ensemble cast fromIt knows how to weave together scary cinematic stories.

Jessica Chastain plays the adult Bev Marsh inIt Chapter Two. No stranger to horror and science fiction, Chastain gives a harrowing performance in Jeff Nichols's psychological and unsettling feature filmTake Shelter.

Chastain playsSamantha LaForche, the husband of Michael Shannon's character Curtis, a man who is being plagued by apocalyptic visions. The line between reality and fantasy blurs as Curtis plunges into a psychologicalnightmare. Besides this film, Chastain starred in Andy Muschietti's's Mama.

As the older Bill Denbrough, James McAvoy plays a character initially reluctant to return to Derry when Pennywise resurfaces. In M. Night Shyamalan'sSplit, McAvoy playsKevin Wendell Crumb, a man suffering from dissociative identity disorder.

One of Crumb's identities kidnaps three teenage girls in the film, who are taken to an underground facility. The highest-grossing horror film on the year,Split received positive reviews from critics, many of whom hailed McAvoy's performance.

Chosen Jacobs is known for playing the young Mike Hanlon in It, but he also stars in the first season of Hulu'sCastle Rock. The anthology series pays tribute to characters and settings affiliated with Stephen King's novels and short stories.

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InCastle Rock, Jacobs plays Wendell Deaver, the son ofAndr Holland's character Henry Deaver. Henry, a lawyer, returns home to Castle Rock, Maine after a mysterious inmate at Shawshank Prison requests his services.

InIt, Jaeden Martell gives a heartfelt performance as young Bill Denbrough, who goes after Pennywise for killing his brother Georgie. Martell showcases his genre talent in a recent horror film: 2020'sThe Lodge.

Brutal and unforgiving,The Lodge stars Riley Keough as a woman who finds herself trapped in a remote lodge with her fianc's two children (the older played by Martell) over Christmas. The three experience a series of unexplainable events that seem connected to Keough's character's dark past.

Finn Wolfhard curses up a storm as the bespectacled young Richie Tozier inIt, a role eclipsed by his portrayal ofMike Wheeler in Netflix's popular seriesStranger Things. Mike becomes the de facto leader of the main group of kids inStranger Things after their friend Will Byers disappears in season one.

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With its psychic kids, supernatural entities, and government conspiracies,Stranger Things is one of the most successful Netflix series to date. The show is also full of easter eggs for fans of '80s horror and science fiction.

The young Bev Marsh is played by Sophia Lillis, who recently received praise for her role in Netflix'sI Am Not Okay with This. Lillis also returned to the big screen in 2020 to play Gretel in Oz Perkins's retelling of the infamous Brothers Grimm fairy tale,Gretel & Hansel.

As Gretel, Lillis portrays a 16-year-old who wanders through the woods with her younger brother, only to stumble upon the home of a nefarious witch. The film received positive reviews for its slow burn atmospherics and eerie, wooden environs.

James Ransone plays the adult Eddie Kaspbrak inIt Chapter Two, a hypochondriacand victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy courtesy of his deranged mother. As the resident nervous nelly, Ransone does a good job combining humor with genuine fear.

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Before playing Kaspbrak, Ransone co-starred in the horror movieSinister alongside Ethan Hawke. Hawke plays a true-crime writer who discoversa series of grisly tapes in his basement, and Ransone plays a deputy who helps him investigate the origins of the tapes.

Jeremy Ray Taylor portrays the young Ben Hanscom inIt,a chubby newcomer who joins the Losers Club. Since starring in the movie, Taylor starred in Nickelodeon's three-part revival of its classic horror anthology seriesAre You Afraid of the Dark?

Taylor plays Graham Raimi in the revival, a member of the Midnight Society. This group of kids get together and share scary stories, stories that often have real-world consequences. Taylor also starred in the secondGoosebumps featureHaunted Halloween.

Swedish actorBill Skarsgrd makes one convincing Pennywise inIt, and his other horror credits include the seriesHemlock Grove andCastle Rock.Bill Skarsgrd also stars alongside Maika Monroe in the horror-comedyVillains.

Bill Skarsgrd and Monroe play a couple who robgas stations in hopes of raising enough money to start a new life in Florida. When their car runs out of gas after their final sting, they end up in the home of a creepy middle-aged couple who keep a child chained in their basements.

Andy Bean depicts Stanley Uris as an adult inIt Chapter Two.Wrought with intense fear over the idea of returning to Derry, Stanley takes his own life early in the film.

Bean does a phenomenal job playing scientist Alec Holland in DC Universe'sSwamp Thing, which was unfortunately canceled after just one season. Bean's Holland becomes the Swamp Thing after being murdered for uncovering an illegal operation in the Louisiana swamps.

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Megan is a public librarian by trade obsessed with the intersections between art, culture, and society. She's a nerd for horror, obscure memes, weird history, graphic novels, and binge-worthy science fiction series.

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