The first movie was pretty good, it felt too safe for a horror film(besides Georgie death Pennywise barely killed anyone, the scene in the basement was bill was awful. They should had used the spider-centipede Pennywise/Georgie hybrid monster!). What sold it to me was the acting and the characters. Now Chapter Two felt off to me like a parody of the first movie and the acting was very weird. I kinda knew the director was going to drop the ball. I do not like his other film Mama which felt like studio safe horror film to me. In my opinion I think Guillermo del Toro,Fede Álvarez , Matt Reeves,Kim Jee-woon or Mike Flanagan are better directors and were better choices.