In case it wasn’t clear from yesterday’s trailer, a good deal of fake blood was put to good use for Andy Muschietti‘s IT Chapter Two, with Jessica Chastain recently teasing that one scene in the sequel may very well feature more blood than we’ve ever seen in a single scene of a horror movie. That scene, we can only assume, is the one we’ve screen-grabbed for you above.

And in a chat with THR, writer Gary Dauberman confirms Chapter Two will be a bloody mess.

“[It’s] definitely bloodier than the first and it is just as scary, if not scarier,” Dauberman told the site.

He added, “The two movies feel like a complete whole. This feels like a natural progression and extension of the first.”

Dauberman also told the site that the murder of Adrian Mellon will be featured in Chapter Two.

“It is an iconic scene in the book and one we wanted to include in the movie,” he explained. “It is the first attack in present-day Derry and sets the stage for what Derry has become. It is the influence of Pennywise even while he is hibernating, and it’s pure evil what happens to Adrian. These bullies working through Pennywise was important for us to show.”

Pennywise will return to the big screen on September 6th.