Hope you're not afraid of clowns.
The first look at It, arguably Stephen King's most terrifying creation, has just been released.
Bill Skarsgard embodies the monster in next year's two-part feature film based on the novel of the same name.
As King fans know, Pennywise the Dancing Clown is just one of It's many guises.
"It's such an extreme character. Inhumane," Skarsgard told Entertainment Weekly. "It's beyond even a sociopath, because he's not even human. He's not even a clown. I'm playing just one of the beings It creates."
Skarsgard says his It will be a very different clown to Heath Ledger's hyperactive Joker seen in the Dark Knight series.
"It's important that we do something fresh and original for this one. It's purposely not going toward that weird, greasy look."
Skarsgard and director Andres Muschietti have some clown-sized boots to fill - Tim Curry's portrayal in the 1990 mini-series adaptation terrified a generation of kids who probably shouldn't have been watching or reading anything written by Stephen King.
"One of my best friends is completely traumatised by the original film version of It," Skarsgard says.
"He has a clown phobia, and he was maybe five or six when he saw it, which is way too young, and he had an older sibling who made him watch it. Now he's scarred for life."
It is an epic read, more than 1000 pages long, so the first film will only tell half the story. It'll also be set in the 1980s, rather than the 1950s, so that part two - when the kids in the first part are all grown up - will take place in the present.
Entertainment Weekly asked King himself what he thought of Skarsgard's Pennywise.
"It's a scary clown. But to me they're all scary."
The first It film is due out in September next year.
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