This is the scariest movie of the past 5 years – Looper

The answer is fairly simple: a strong cast of young up-and-comers, and a villain that taps into the uneasy feeling many people have around clowns. While true coulrophobia is rare, the evil clown trope is effective whether you have an actual phobia or not especially when that evil clown is played with as much menace as Bill Skarsgrd poured into the role of Pennywise.

It also helps that as a horror movie, It works on multiple levels. At its heart, it's a coming of age story about a group of misfits in the 1980s. Watching the Losers Club bond over their respective traumas and desire to stop Pennywise before he kills more children helps the audience form an attachment to the characters. That in turn creates real stakes, which are sorely lacking in some horror movies. (Come on, be honest, did you really care about any of the characters in Midsommar?)

But at the same time, It is also legitimately scary. From the opening scene where Pennywise lures little Georgie to the sewer drain to his transformation into the woman from the painting that haunts poor Stanley, the movie keeps the scares coming. And not just from Pennywise, there's also plenty of horror to be mined from neglectful parents and all-too-human bullies, too.

All of these elements combine to make It one of the scariest and most memorable horror movies of the last five years, and ensures that at least this time around, the members of Losers Club are the clear winners.

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