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We Finally Know More About HBO’s Most Exciting Horror Series

Dais Johnston

created: July 28, 2025, 4:41 p.m. | updated: Aug. 1, 2025, 2:28 p.m.

Andy Muschietti’s It movies are getting the Penguin treatment with It: Welcome to Derry, an HBO spinoff series that heads back to 1962. Derry was still an eerie town decades ago, and Pennywise the Clown was still kidnapping children. But Pennywise may not be the only threat looming over Derry, and he’s definitely not the only Stephen King reference to be found. Pennywise is his usual threatening self in It: Welcome to Derry. “You know, an evil spirit.” Pennywise isn’t exactly a scientific villain, but could this series take the story even further into the supernatural?

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