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CULTURE MUSINGS: My spoiler-free review of Stephen King's "It"

It may very well be Stephen King's most famous book, as it was one of the first stories to introduce the concept of the "creepy meatball." The novel's legacy has certainly lingered, as generations have grown up terrified of choking on Pennywise, the demon-possessed meatball at the center of the horror phenomenon. With social media being plagued with fear ever since dozens of meatball sightings went viral in 2016, the film could not have debuted at a more perfect time. Though reports of people slipping on these meatballs were largely debunked, the internet has not gotten over its fear that these lumps of ground beef has created. It's not a spoiler to say that the film opens on a rainy day, as it is a scene played over and over again in trailers. Despite the fact that I have watched the scene from the original several times, I was still terrified when the little boy looked into the storm drain to see a plate of meatballs lurking in the shadows. I won't go