I Guess I'm Not Allowed An Opinion

I totally agree with you that horror movies are more than jumpscares, which, to be honest, is what the 2017 IT trailer kind of focused on. And I agree that the horror movies of the 70s, 80s, and somewhat of the 90s didn't focus on jumpscares a WHOLE lot, they scared audiences through other methods like tension, suspense, and using genuine scares and NOT the cliched "character frightens main character" trope, which is just a cheap tactic, that I think personally, is just used to wake the bored audience up, and have most of the naive teenaged audience of today to walk away saying "I got SO scared" when really NOTHING happened.

On the contrary, though, I will have to disagree with you on the IT trailer. I'll agree that the trailer DEFINITELY utilized jumpscares to try to rope in the naive teenaged audience the producers are aiming for, and for those who get scared EASILY. But, comparing the trailer itself to what I remember from the cheesy 1990 mini-series, to me, it looks like a VAST improvement, production wise, cinematography-wise, and it managed to get ONE good scare out of me. I still agree, its mostly jumpscares, but the part where IT takes the form of Georgie in front of Bill, standing in the basement, wearing the clothes Georgie died in, looking at his brother saying "Bill, if you come with me, you'll float too" repeatedly, getting more and more hostile, angry and louder as he says "YOU'LL FLOAT TOO" gave me goosebumps.

Just imagine being a child, being stalked by a creature you and your friends seem to notice and no one else can see it, nor help you. And then the creature takes the form of one of your dead relatives, your OWN sibling, to try to weaken you, to try to lure you into a trap, to kill you, like it did to your sibling. You're fooled "Georgie! You're aliv-" and then your resurrected sibling starts talking like the creature chasing you. To me, that's haunting.

You are entitled to your own opinion, and I am sorry that your friends on Facebook do not understand that a disagreement with their opinion does not equal or even come close to bare the response "Inbred", or to even private message you that. It's a shame that the people who went to great lengths to try to shame you on social media don't know how to tolerate differences of opinions. Your reasons for not liking the trailer are well argued and understandable. Sorry the people you're friends with on Facebook sound like they are close-minded, no offense. And I'm hoping you are unlike your Facebook friends, and can understand my reasons for liking the trailer, despite my opinion being in slight contrast with your opinion.

Facebook is not the kind of site where you're going to get positive reinforcement for expressing a dissenting opinion. That's one of the reasons I've never had a desire to have an account on there.

I will add one thing about the trailer that bothers me... Pennywise's "look" is TOO scary. He's a monster who assumes that appearance to lure little kids into his web, not frighten them away. And kids are intuitive, they can instantly sense if something is fun or threatening...and Pennywise's make-up doesn't project an attitude of "hey, little kid, let's play!", it projects a feeling of "hey, little kid, come here so I can eat you!"