This is considered one of the most faithful treatments of the author's work. He left the project due to scheduling conflicts, but he would finally direct a King adaptation, The Dark Half. This might sound like a broken record when it comes to King movies, George Romero had originally been signed on to direct the project when ABC had planned for an eight-to-ten-hour series that would play over four nights. They first battle him in 1960 as teenagers before coming back to battle him again in 1990. The story concerns The Lucky Seven, or The Losers Club, a group of outcasts who learn that the shapeshifting creature named Pennywise has taking and killing children in their hometown of Derry, Maine. Wallace - and others - have commented that the first night is near perfect story-wise, but it falls apart on night two. Originally airing from November 18 to 20, 1990, screenwriter Lawrence Cohen turned 1,138 pages of King into a two-part, three-hour TV movie. But this film cements his legacy, with a great build and plenty of scares within the limitations of television. Ommy Lee Wallace has made many lasting contributions to genre filmmaking, first on John Carpenter's Dark Star and Assault on Precinct 13 before appearing as The Shape/Michael Myers in the original Halloween, writing Amityville 2: The Possession, co-writing and directing the original Fright Night Part II and acting and being part of the effects team for The Fog. Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 7 / 10 Destroying 90's childhoods
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