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Stephen King is having a very big year, with not only film adaptations of The Dark Tower and It coming to theatres, but a TV series adaptation of The Mist having hit Netflix this summer.

And it looks like It has already surpassed expectations, opening this past weekend with the highest-ever preview box office for an R-rated film, horror or September release, reports Variety. It’s pulled in a massive $117.2 million, making it the second biggest opening for an R-rated film of all time, coming in just after Deadpool.

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However, there is one little thing the adaptation shied away from when it came to bringing King’s material to the big screen: a child orgy scene, which is really the only way to describe it.

In the 1986 novel, after the group of kids (who call themselves the Losers) at the centre of the story manage to fight off the creepy clown, they find themselves lost in the sewers. Beverly, the only girl in the group, then informs them that the only way to get out is for them to have sex with her. What follows is a very unusual, rarely talked about scene that involves her having sex with each boy.