The Secret to ‘It: Welcome to Derry’s’ Nastiest Nightmares

Watching the second episode of It: Welcome to Derry , you d be forgiven for assuming that the Mother Thing, one of the HBO show s many terrifying surreal creations, came mostly out of postproduction. The parent of young Ronnie (Amanda Christine), who died during childbirth, emerges in a hallucinatory sequence while Ronnie is hiding under her blankets - she finds herself stuck in a strange sort of womb, with her mother taking on the form of the bed. It s slimy and creepy and wholly fantastical.