The New "It" Trailer Is Pure, Clown-Themed Nightmare Fuel

This movie is not clowning around.
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We get it, Hollywood: Clowns are very, very scary. (Case in point: the latest American Horror Story: Cult trailer). But now, a new look at It, the upcoming reboot of the OG scary clown story, is here to remind everyone which villainous clown is king.

The first It teasers debuted earlier this year, but the just-released trailer is truly the stuff of nightmares. But in case you've managed to avoid the clown-themed terror until now, the film follows a ragtag team of adolescents known as the Losers Club — members include Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray, Sophia Lillis, and Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard — who are tasked with battling a pure evil shape-shifting creature that for the most part appears as a truly horrifying clown named Pennywise.

In the latest look at the adaptation of the 1986 Stephen King novel, we see more of Pennywise, played by a truly unrecognizable Bill Skarsgård, than ever before. Namely, he lures one little boy, George, into a sewer (and hypnotizes him into trying to lure his big brother Bill down into the watery depths with the haunting phrase "You’ll float too!"), before waging all out war on the youths himself.

"All the bad things that happen in this town are because of one thing," one of the kids astutely observes.

It is set to start clowning around in theaters on Sept. 8, a date after which all children's birthday parties will never feel quite right. Until then, check out the latest trailer below:

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