This terrifying clown has been spotted at a screening of IT

We’d hoped we were over the whole ‘scary clown’ thing.

Stephen King’s It is a stone cold horror classic. Whether you read the 1,200 brick of a novel, or watched the 1990 TV miniseries starring Tim Curry, Pennywise the Clown has remained particularly terrifying to 80s and 90s kids. In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a new big screen version of It out – and it’s definitely worth seeing. It’s a big-budget, violent, scary and surprisingly funny horror ride, and Bill Skarsgård makes an utterly petrifying Pennywise. The movie already looks like it’s going to be a massive hit as well – which means scary clowns are probably about to jump right back into the pop culture landscape and start scaring us again. Oh dear. And it’s started already. Twitter user @HG_Hohbes went to see the film at his local cinema, and noticed he wasn’t alone in the screen…. https://twitter.com/HG_Hohbes/status/906244091985395712 Instead of fleeing like a normal person would, he took a few snaps as the clown wondered about. https://twitter.com/HG_Hohbes/status/906244450933985280 He even had a chat with him. https://twitter.com/HG_Hohbes/status/906245580715954176 Just him and the clown, chilling. https://twitter.com/HG_Hohbes/status/906468775154917377 Don’t worry, he tweeted after the film, so we know he’s ok and now floating down a sewer somewhere. https://twitter.com/HG_Hohbes/status/906287044418207744