Big screen ‘It’ is heavy on creepy clowns, but light on scares

Josh Terry, Deseret News
“IT” — 2½ stars — Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis, Jack Dylan Grazer; R (violence/horror, bloody images and for language); in general release
About 30-45 minutes into the film, you realize that, while entertaining, “It” isn’t a very scary movie. It’s creepy, yes. It’s also disturbing — in the opening scene, a fanged clown monster bites off a kid’s arm. But i