Pennywise the demonic clown gleefully inflicts all manner of psychological and physical torment on the grown-up members of the Losers Club in a new trailer for IT Chapter Two. The trailer was shown during New Line Cinema's "ScareDiego" event, a prelude to San Diego Comic-Con that has been happening annually for the last three years.

(Some spoilers for first film and novel below.)

Set in 1989, IT essentially adapted half of King's original novel, telling the story of a group of misfit kids calling themselves "The Losers Club." The kids discover their small town of Derry is home to an ancient, trans-dimensional evil that awakens every 27 years to prey mostly on children by taking the form of an evil clown named Pennywise. Bill (Jaeden Lieberher) loses his little brother, Georgie, to Pennywise, and the group decides to take on Pennywise and drive him into early hibernation, where he will hopefully starve. But Beverly (Sophia Lillis) has a vision warning that Pennywise will return on schedule in 27 years, and they must be ready to fight him anew.

IT: Chapter Two revisits our protagonists 27 years later, as they all return to Derry as adults for a reunion of sorts. The first trailer dropped in May, featuring an adult Beverly (Jessica Chastain) returning to the house she grew up in and sitting down for tea with the elderly woman now living there. But that old woman turns out to be much more menacing than she first appeared.

All grown up

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This new trailer gives us a lot more terrifying footage of what's in store for the Loser's Club as they gather in Derry as adults for a reunion. Most of them left Derry and built successful lives elsewhere—at least on the surface. "Something happens when you leave this town," Mike Hanson (Isaiah Mustafa) says in a voiceover. "The farther away, the hazier it all gets." He's the only one who stayed: "I remember all of it."

Mike tells his friends that they didn't destroy It completely 27 years ago, and he reminds them of their childhood oath: if IT ever came back, they would return to fight again. Well, Pennywise is back, and he's itching for a rematch. That means the Losers Club must confront the horrors of its past and put an end to the unspeakable evil that has terrorized the town for so long. It's not a welcome prospect.

"I've seen all of us die," Beverly Marshall confesses. "It consumes us from the inside, until we don't have a choice anymore."

Horrors unleashed

The trailer is a study in contrasts. Images of the Losers Club's younger selves are juxtaposed with them as adults. Images of a bright sunny day in the seemingly wholesome town of Derry mix with dank shots of Pennywise's domain—the sewers and a funhouse at the local amusement park. That provides the setting for a wrenching sequence in which Bill Denbrough (James McAvoy) finds himself trapped in a maze of mirrors, watching as a gloating Pennywise attacks a young boy.

"For 27 years, I dreamt of you," Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård) rasps in another voiceover. "I craved you. I missed you." Skarsgård's maniacal performance has haunted the dreams of many a moviegoer during the last two years. It looks like we're in for a few more nightmares.

IT Chapter Two hits theaters September 6, 2019.

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