It, this fall’s delightfully scary Stephen King adaptation, is opening beyond even the most optimistic expectations. The tale of seven children’s terrifying battle against an iconic sewer-dwelling clown is on track for a $100 million opening weekend, and has already shattered quite a few box office records in its first two days. It opened to $13.5 million in Thursday night previews, and continued the winning streak with $51 million on its first day, Friday—easily breaking previous records for the highest-opening R-rated, non-sequel horror film (The Conjuring’s $41 million), the best September opening weekend (Hotel Transylvania 2, $48 million), and the highest-opening Stephen King movie (1408, $20 million).

That $51 million also gives It the biggest single-day opening for an R-rated movie of all time, according to Forbes—leaping past Deadpool’s $46m opening Friday in 2016. Not only that, but prediction models have It claiming around $100 million in its opening weekend overall, kicking off a fall blockbuster season that’s bound to be bigger than this summer’s dismal returns.

Summer 2017 saw the worst seasonal box office in more than ten years, with theater attendance the lowest in a quarter-century. Giant tentpoles like Transformers: The Last Knight, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and the, uh, other big King adaptation, The Dark Tower, completely tanked, though smaller-budget pictures like Baby Driver and Girls Trip pleasantly exceeded expectations. Hopefully It has succeeded in scaring the fall season into shape, and not a moment too soon: we have a superhero battle royale to look forward to in November with Thor: Ragnarok going up against Justice League, not to mention that Star Wars movie fast approaching in December. For now, we have one very scary dancing clown to thank for getting Hollywood back on track.