Most disturbing scene...

[Sarkisaur]

There are two parts of this book that i can't forget. The first is the "gay bashing" at the start, i just found that really disturbing, but so well written, he just captured the evilness of it.

*spoilers*

The second is everything regarding Patrick Hocksetter... revolting. The chapter with Bev in the scrapyard ending with the death of Patrick is the most compelling thing i've ever read. Couldn't stop reading until i found out how it ended. It ended in a disgustingly sick way that only King could write.

These are also my 2 favourite parts because they stuck with me.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Welcome to the MB, and keep posting!

Bev's husband for me.

Long days and pleasant nights

[GNTLGNT]

For me, The Barrens always give me a chill...

[SueC]

I read It years ago and one scene that still stands out for me is when Pennywise ripped the little boy's arm off when he was down the storm drain. Can't even remember his name because it was so long ago and I've read so many books since then but I must re-read this book one day.

[Raq]

The two most disturbing ones are :
SPOILER WARNING
When Bev came back to Derry and she went to se her father. We al know what happened next but that's not it. The most disturbing part was what IT had to say...I mean ..wow...pure evil ;d
and
When the guys kill that gay dude just at the beginning but once again that's not it. When the body is tossed down and his friend comes to get him he sees Pennywise holding his friend and walking with him towards 'a forest of balon strings' . Like how more disturbing can you get?!
I wasn't scared most of the time (mesmerized yes, not scared) but at these moments I nearly wet my pants...sooooooo amazing

[SequenceInitiated]

The most disturbing scenes I found were... Probably the part where Eddie Corcoran (?) was killed, the part at the bar where the guy chopped people up like wood (the descriptions made me feel sick), and the demise of Patrick Hockstetter. :o

[DancingCorpse]

I find the various parts where Bev's father abuses, bullies and downgrades her very disturbing yet sadly the most believable moments of the story, the human aspects and displaying the darkness that we are capable of. The sorrow and compassion you feel for the poor girl is terrible. There are many sections which also move me a little in a black way, such as Pennywise coming to visit Mike in the library and nobody else being able to see it, so he needs to stay calm and not freak out in case anyone thinks he is mental, it's that old childhood fear coming back, of feeling like you are uniquely insane!

[wally wonder]

probably when elfreda told bev, 'they say if you kill a spider, it brings rain.' and boy did it, ever, rain i mean...or maybe it is thoroughgood's story about claude heroux...lots of things about that story that are unsettlling

[CruelHandLuke]

The part where Pennywise is speaking to Bev from the drain and mentions Bill: "Don't be surprised if your friend finds me in a closet one day with a coathanger" Something like that. I remember reading that part and then going to sleep and imagining an evil clown in my closet waiting for me to open it. Creeped me out.

[dwalters]

I agree with the OP about the entire Patrick Hockstetter chapter. What a creepy (and disturbing) character. Everything about that kid was just wrong and his fascination with death makes me feel sick no matter how many times I read this book.

[29neibolt]

Hi all,


SPOLIER WARNING...
my most disturbing scene would be when Richie and Mike encounter 'IT' arriving from the Macroverse, or so it appears, and the description of the heat and the moment was well written...

also, the house at 29 Neibolt st is kinda disturbing, the whole idea of going under the porch, and climbing down through the hole really bothers me.
:)

Thanks

[toothextractor]

I have to agree that Patrick, with his refrigerator, was probably one of the most disturbing aspects of the book. (But there were so many...) I also thought it was interesting how Patrick's sociopathy mirrored It's so closely-- how both thought they were the only "real" entity in the universe. (And both realized, a little too late, that maybe this wasn't the case after all.)

I suppose that latter aspect of It is what creeped me out the most-- that every sick, sadistic comment or disguise-- even ones that seemed to show a perverted sense of humor, were nothing more than affectation; that its thoughts were utterly alien and beyond comprehension. (It's kinda difficult to verbalize this feeling exactly-- just the idea of an encounter with something so ... immense and seemingly malevolent, yet whose outward "personality" was really no less a facade than the many disguises it wore was just ... so disturbing and creepy.)

[Richard Edwards]

For a different reason, but for me it was when the first cycle with the Losers was ended and they were working their way out of the sewers. They were losing their way and the way that Bev brought everyone back together was, for me, disturbing.

Still my favorite SK book, though.

[muskrat]

Yeah...Gotta be ol' Patrick Hockstetter--definatly one of Kings most chilling characters. I think I knew a couple of cats like that back in high school.

[Const. Reader]

I think for me it would be anything involving those darn sewers, I can't stand on a sewer grate or walk close to one to this day

[Walter o'Dim]

The most disturbing scenes I found were... Probably the part where Eddie Corcoran (?) was killed, the part at the bar where the guy chopped people up like wood (the descriptions made me feel sick), and the demise of Patrick Hockstetter. :o


YES!

[Alonso]

I would say that anythign related to Beverly's husband. Nothing made me angrier than reading to this guy's thoughs. The way King puts it make me want to get into the book and prolly end up being IT dinner just to get a one hout of torturing this guy, is not jsut the way he treats other is jsut the way he thinks of it and how superior he finds himself. On the other side of it King I think made a very human character full of complexes and thoughs, tastes and lust for the ill treatment.

[king family fan]

Pennywise was just so disturbing. But I guess thats what kept my interest. I really liked the idea of a bad evil clown.

[hustle111]

maybe not the MOST disturbing, but the fact taht they left Eddie's body behind is something i haven't forgotten about since i finished the book

i guess i feel bad for his wife too, who will have no explanation whatsoever as to what happened to him

[urrutiap]

Me personally I find that both the scene where Bev has that sex gangbang with the other Losers Club members and then there's the Patrick Hockstetkter chapter which is the most disgusting thing ever LOL

[Ben E Gas]

I liked the part where bev goes to visit her old house after she grew up and another "lady" is living there and serves her "tea" that is really sewer water. I loved that part and it reminded me of the part in the dark tower where they visit Dondelo's house, similar glamour was used there.

[Ben E Gas]

For a different reason, but for me it was when the first cycle with the Losers was ended and they were working their way out of the sewers. They were losing their way and the way that Bev brought everyone back together was, for me, disturbing.

Still my favorite SK book, though. I thought that was also very disturbing, but I took it as that they were "making love" if you will, they thought that was the best way to do it. By "making the love" they gained power. Similar in the way they beleived the silver bullet would kill the warewolf version of It.

[Connie Reader]

That whole scene with Patrick was the horror equivalent of a car crash after the fact. I couldn't look away. I hate the part when the boys poisoned the dog, it totally makes my stomach turn.

The photographs that start moving...I still get shivers!!! Every time I hear Fur Elise I think of IT.

[matti76]

Most disturbing scene from IT? Quite a bit of competition for that one....

1. Tom Rogan scenes, especially with Bev and Kaye - King perfectly captures the mentality of a grade-A misogynist: his revolting slyness and determination to destroy any woman in his life.

2. Patrick, the animals, and the fridge - enough said. :eek2:

3. Patrick and his baby brother - ditto.

4. Sergeant Wilson and his hole - knowing that this sort of bullying probably occurred (and maybe still does) made it quite disturbing.

[Ortal]

Patrick Hockstetter in general, Bev and all the boys (they are like 11...)

[killem2]

The most disturbing part for me, beyond all else, that still gives me the chills every single time I read it is when they are talking to the Father who beat his son Dorcy with a hammer to death and when the relive the prosecutor asking if he said anything. "I'm sorry dad, I love you."

Maybe its because I've been a dad of two sons now since 2006, and it just creeps me out. Probably a close runner up is Patrick killing his baby sibling.

[dspear237]

I'd definitely have to go with Beverly's husband, Tom...he makes Pennywise look like Ronald McDonald on the scale of evil.

[Ortal]

The most disturbing part for me, beyond all else, that still gives me the chills every single time I read it is when they are talking to the Father who beat his son Dorcy with a hammer to death and when the relive the prosecutor asking if he said anything. "I'm sorry dad, I love you."

Maybe its because I've been a dad of two sons now since 2006, and it just creeps me out. Probably a close runner up is Patrick killing his baby sibling.


this. made my skin break out in goosebumps

[jordanc123]

This may not be exactly what happened but i remember a scene which disturbed me a lot when pennywise kills a young boy in his bathroom. can someone explain to me whether this actually happened or whether i am getting something mixed up as it has been a long time since i read the book. will have to re-read soon thanks

[BuRgErKiNgSaLt]

Oh, when 3 year old Fredrick Cowan got killed that was the worst.

[ChickenStu]

The bit where Hockstetter killed his baby brother REALLY upset me. I'm a parent myself, and stuff like that never sits easy with me. Bloody horrible.