Red balloons are Pennywise's calling cards, and he often uses them as bait to kidnap children.
In It, the symbol of the red balloon is turned on its head. What symbolizes a child's sense of imagination is manipulated to lure children to the clown, Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård).
BANGOR, Maine — A single red balloon was spotted hanging in the window of author Stephen King's home in Maine and many “It” fans know exactly what that means. The red balloon is a symbol of Pennywise, who, based off King's 1986 novel, uses the balloons to lure in victims.
Pennywise is the iconic frightening clown of It that terrifies the children of King's fictional town, Derry, Maine. He's synonymous with red balloons (even though Pennywise has been known to carry other colored balloons, too).
In the film adaptations, however, the balloons are only red – whereas in other versions they come in multiple colors. Now a fan theory has popped up to explain why we only ever see red balloons in the IT feature films.
Red balloons are Pennywise's calling cards, and he often uses them as bait to kidnap children.
It's just a symbol, kind of like a visual catch-phrase that stems from Pennywise telling Georgie that the balloons in the sewer circus float, and “you'll float too!” Balloons also match with his primary from, a clown. What moment in the “IT” movie remake ended up scaring you the most?
In the novel, It's origins are nebulous. He took the form of a clown most frequently, Mr. Bob Gray or Pennywise, but his true form is an ancient eldritch entity from another universe who landed in the town that would become Derry by way of an asteroid and first awoke in 1715.
The simplest and most obvious interpretation is that all the talk of floating is a reference to the fact that Pennywise (aka the titular "It") murders his victims and drags them down to the town's sewer system where he dwells, which is full of water. And what do dead bodies do in water? That's right — they float.
In the novel, It claims that its true name is Robert "Bob" Gray, but decided to be named “It”. Throughout the book, It is generally referred to as male due to usually appearing as Pennywise.
Commonly used to convey congratulations and celebration, especially when wishing someone a happy birthday.
Related: What Does Pennywise Really Look Like In IT? IT arrived on Earth through an event similar to an asteroid impact, landing in what would later become Derry, Maine. Once there, IT adopted its usual pattern of hibernation that lasted between 27 and 30 years, awakening to kill and eat and then going back to sleep.
King decided for IT to predominantly take the shape of Pennywise the Dancing Clown because he believes "clowns scare children more than anything else in the world." IT influences the adults of Derry to passively ignore it and not interfere with his attacks on Derry's children.
Stephen King's 'IT' introduced readers to a one-of-a-kind creature that can take any form, the most common one being Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and as menacing as it is, this creature has one big enemy it's truly scared of: Maturin, the turtle.
It's weaknesses are courage and heart. For the sake of spoilers, I won't go too much into the Ritual of Chüd, but suffice it to say that if you want to defeat It, you've got to have the two traits listed above.
The Deadlights are orange writhing lights that exist in Todash Darkness. Pennywise uses its Deadlights to break a person's mind because one look at the Deadlights will make a person go insane due to it not being able to be comprehended by a human mind.
Another explanation is connected to the Turtle and the cosmic side of IT and Stephen King's Macroverse, suggesting the Losers as the “chosen ones” that were guided and thus protected to an extent by Maturin, the only creature IT is afraid of.
The spider-clown shrinks as the Losers hurl taunts at It, until it's tiny and weak enough that they pluck out its heart and squash it into nothingness. In the end, they defeat Pennywise by, uh, making him feel really bad about himself.
In the novel, it's explained that Richie got a vasectomy so he could have unprotected sex without worrying about kids, but the vasectomy “failed and the tubes regrew”, and he was actually fertile, yet he didn't get any of his partners pregnant.
Image via Warner Bros. Finally, Pennywise is beaten into submission. He scurries away, utters the word "fear," and partially disintegrates before falling into the void. It's a powerful defeat of a powerful monster, and it's satisfaction enough were IT to remain a single film.
Still, the film gives viewers a pretty good sense of who Bill (Jaeden Lieberher), Beverly (Sophia Lillis), Ben (Jeremy Ray Taylor), Richie (Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard), Eddie (Jack Dylan Grazer ), Stanley (Wyatt Oleff), and Mike (Chosen Jacobs) are.
The Losers moulded it into the form of a spider because that was all their puny human minds could perceive it as, but it wasn't really the spider. In the same way that a spider cannot truly understand what a human being is.
The bartender told Jake that Georgie's body was found in the sewer drain. In the 1990 TV Miniseries, Pennywise grabbed Georgie's right arm instead of his left; the same happens in the 2017 Film. His death won the Golden Chainsaw on the kill count of IT (2017) by Dead Meat.
Stephen King on beginning It by killing off a 6-year-old.
It has been condensed and edited for clarity. Dan Kois: Opening It with Georgie's death does more than just shock readers.
Nelson), Georgie's predicament continues as he navigates his complicated relationship with Mandy (Emily Osment) in light of their accidental pregnancy.