This weekend, HBO Max will premiere the primary episode of IT: Welcome to Derry. This prequel collection from Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, the brother-sister duo behind IT and IT: Chapter Two will give audiences gnarly new tales involving Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Now, followers of the hard-R-rated horror motion pictures starring Invoice Skarsgård as Pennywise may suppose they know what to anticipate from this new present. Cool, cool, cool. You are unsuitable. 

Mashable’s Leisure crew has been totally gagged — in each methods — by IT: Welcome to Derry, which builds upon three interludes from Stephen King’s novel IT. And whereas we cannot share spoilers of the horrors about to unfold, we do need to provide you with a easy warning:

Do not plan to eat whereas watching the premiere episode of IT: Welcome to Derry.

Look, you may suppose you are too deep into horror, too huge a King fan, too staunch in abdomen to get it churned by a TV present. However first off, to cite an previous however true motto, “It is not TV. It is HBO.”

That is the community that gave us the corpsicle of True Detective: Night Country and the completely harrowing second season of The Last of Us. HBO initially stood for House Field Workplace, but it surely might stand for Horror Bloody Outrageous. 

As teased in Belen Edwards’ evaluate, IT: Welcome to Derry does not pull any punches on the subject of its grisly set items. And the primary episode gives a number of completely grotesque sequences. So, do your self a favor: Eat or snack effectively earlier than you sit down for this deranged debut. 

Past the stomach-churningness of all of it, there’s numerous setup on this first episode you will not need to miss. After which there are moments so surprising and twisted you will not imagine your eyes. So put aside the popcorn. Keep away from something pink or bloody. Hey, perhaps even keep away from Cracker Jacks. Belief us.

There are some TV reveals, like True Detective and Alien: Earth, that demand your full consideration on a full abdomen. As a result of in any other case, it is gonna be a tough evening. 

IT: Welcome to Derry debuts on Sunday, October 26 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on HBO, and will be available to stream on HBO Max. New episodes air weekly.