IT Movies: Every Film in the Stephen King Series

The IT movies adapt Stephen King's novel about a sinister clown called Pennywise and the group of kids in Derry, Maine who band together against it, and they arrive as two films from director Andy Muschietti. It (2017) tells the childhood half of the story and runs 135 minutes. It Chapter Two (2019) tells the adult half and runs 169 minutes. Warner Bros. set the September 8, 2017 date for the first film on April 22, 2016, according to TheWrap, and the second film followed two years later in September 2019.

It (2017) opens in October 1988 in Derry. Young Georgie Denbrough chases a paper boat made by his older brother Bill and is dragged into a storm drain by a sinister clown. The following summer Bill refuses to accept that Georgie is dead and keeps searching, alongside his wisecracking friends Richie, Eddie and Stan. They cross paths with Ben, Beverly and Mike, other outcasts who are bullied by Henry Bowers and his gang. Each kid begins to see terrifying visions tailored to their own fears, and the seven band together as the Losers Club.

It Chapter Two jumps ahead 27 years to 2016. Pennywise has come back to Derry, and the film opens with a hate crime against a gay man before it becomes clear that the creature is feeding again. Mike Hanlon, the one Loser who never left town, phones his old friends and calls them home to keep their childhood promise. Bill, Ben, Beverly, Richie and Eddie return, and they face the clown a second time.

Television productions with the IT name, such as the series IT: Welcome to Derry, are separate from the two films. They are television, so they get no film pages and appear here only for context.

It could be argued that the two films are best understood as one story cut in half. The first is a coming of age horror film built around seven kids and one summer, and the second is a reunion film about what childhood fear does to adults who tried to forget it. Bill Skarsgård plays Pennywise in both, and the young cast returns in the sequel as the younger versions of their characters, so the link between the halves is visible on screen. Port Hope stood in for Derry on the second film, according to Global News.

The money followed the scares. It (2017) earned about $720 million worldwide on a $35 million budget, and It Chapter Two earned about $473 million on a $79 million budget, both figures according to Box Office Mojo. Together that is more than $1.19 billion from the two films, which is why people keep asking whether more is coming. The full breakdown sits on the IT box office page, and the IT soundtrack page covers Benjamin Wallfisch, who scored both films.

For the individual films, see It (2017) and It Chapter Two. If you want the count and the list in one place, how many IT movies are there answers it, and the IT timeline lays out the story in order. The IT cast page lists everyone who plays the clown and the kids, while IT movies ranked and IT reviews carry our own opinions on the films.

You can stream both IT movies on HBO Max in the US, the UK and Australia, with Netflix also carrying them in Australia, according to JustWatch data on TMDB checked on November 3, 2026. Streaming catalogs change often, so the services named here are a snapshot and not a promise.

In the US, It Chapter Two streams on HBO Max, and It (2017) streams on AMC and HBO Max. Both can also be rented or bought from Amazon Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube and Fandango At Home.

In the UK, It (2017) streams on HBO Max and Now TV Cinema, and It Chapter Two streams on Netflix, HBO Max and Now TV Cinema. Both are available to rent or buy from Apple TV and Amazon Video, among other stores.

In Australia, both films stream on Netflix and HBO Max. They can be rented or bought from Apple TV, Amazon Video, YouTube and Fetch TV, and rented from the JustWatch TV Store.

For the full table by country, including every rental and purchase option, see where to watch IT. If you want collectibles after the movie night, the IT merchandise page covers them.