Welcome home, Losers. Stephen King`s It is a pretty massive undertaking, whether you come at it as a novel, a miniseries, or a couple of feature-length films. As a multi-generational horror extravaganza, it`s really no surprise that it manages to be packed to the proverbial gills with all sorts of nods, references, and Easter Eggs not just to the world of It itself, but to other horror classics as well.For those of you who may need to be caught up to speed, It Chapter 2 isn`t actually a sequel to 2017`s It Chapter 1--they`re two movies working in the same story, set 27 years apart. The seven kids of the Losers Club who managed to defeat Pennywise, an eldritch abomination in the form of a truly horrifying clown, back in 1989, are forced to return to their hometown of Derry, Maine as adults to finish it off once and for all.We combed through It Chapter 2 for every callback we could find--all while avoiding those creepy red balloons and gallons of blood--to come up with 25 Easter Eggs and references in the movie.Though the franchise and the story may be over 30 years old at this point, each incarnation has a new spin on the events of the novel--so be careful of spoilers for the new version of the film. There are plenty of them from here on out. 1.) Georgie in the basement The flooded Denbrough basement where Bill hallucinates both himself and his dead brother, Georgie, is a mirror of several scenes from the first movie. The first is Georgie`s near miss with Pennywise as he`s getting the wax to seal his paper boat, the second being Bill`s personalized Pennywise nightmare in which he wades into his flooded basement to confront Georgie`s corpse. 2.) Beep beep, Richie The iconic `beep beep, Richie` idiom is a lot more important in the novel and the `90s miniseries than it is in the new movies, but it still comes up. This time, Bev gets to use it in the house on Neibolt street. 3.) Is there a password? When Ben first arrives at the Chinese restaurant to reu ...
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