Because 90% of the violence that occurs turns out not to be actually happening but is instead occurring in the minds of the characters, who are all in similar states of mental anxiety. For an audience looking for
reality-based murders where there are real consequences for real dark deeds that are actually happening, well, they had better look elsewhere. Such scripts amount to fraud of a very high order - although I am speaking only of the movie's first 2 hours and 20 minutes - at which point this viewer actually did really get up and really leave the theater.
Review of It Chapter Two
