Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: It Chapter Two and Freaks.

From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 5pm Saturday in NZ, 3pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s
the described movies It Chapter Two from 2019 and Freaks from 1932.
It Chapter Two is a 2019 American supernatural horror film and a sequel/second half to the 2017 film It, both based on the 1986 novel by Stephen King.
The film is directed by Andy Muschietti, returning from the first film, with a screenplay by Gary Dauberman.
Set in 2016, 27 years after the events of the first film, it stars Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, and Bill Skarsgård, who returns as Pennywise.
It is the second installment of the It film series and centers on the Losers Club reuniting from their various lives apart from each other to destroy It once and for all, though being apart means they have mostly forgotten the terror they endured together 27 years ago.
Talks for an It sequel began in February 2016.
By September 2017, New Line Cinema announced that it would be released in September 2019, with Dauberman writing the script and Muschietti to direct.
Principal photography began on 19 June, 2018, at Pinewood Toronto Studios and on locations in and around Port Hope, Oshawa and Toronto, Ontario and wrapped on 31 October, 2018.
The film is produced by New Line Cinema, Double Dream, Vertigo Entertainment and Rideback, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
It Chapter Two premiered in Los Angeles on 26 August, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on 6 September, 2019, in 2D, Dolby Cinema and IMAX.
The film received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed over $473 million worldwide.
Directed by: Andy Muschietti.
Screenplay by: Gary Dauberman.
Based on: It by Stephen King.
Produced by: Barbara Muschietti, Dan Lin and Roy Lee.
Starring: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, Bill Skarsgård, Hailey Stolinski and Riley Smith.
Cinematography: Checco Varese.
Edited by: Jason Ballantine.
Music by: Benjamin Wallfisch.
Production companies: New Line Cinema, Double Dream , Vertigo Entertainment and Rideback.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures.
Release date: 26 August , 2019 ( Los Angeles) and 6 September , 2019 (North America).
File Length: 170 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $79 million.
Box office: $473.1 million.
Freaks (also re-released as Forbidden Love and Natures Mistakes is a 1932 American pre-Code horror film produced and directed by Tod Browning, and starring Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova and Roscoe Ates.
It follows a trapeze artist who joins a group of carnival sideshow performers with a plan to seduce and murder a dwarf in the troupe to gain his inheritance, but her plot proves to have dangerous consequences. The film is based on elements from the short story " Spurs" by Tod Robbins.
Filmed in Los Angeles in the fall of 1931, some employees at MGM were discomfited by the presence of the actors portraying the "freaks" on set, and, other than the so-called more normal looking "freaks", the Siamese twins and the Earles, the performers were not allowed to be on the studio lot, relegated instead to a specially-built tent.
The film had test screenings in January 1932, with many members of the audience reacting negatively, finding the film too grotesque.
In response to this, MGM executive Irving Thalberg, without consent of director Browning, edited the original 90-minute feature, which was significantly cut, with additional alternate footage incorporated to help increase the running time.
The final abridged cut of the film, released in 1932 February, was 64 minutes; the original version no longer exists.
However the film was shown in its original entirety when it made its world premiere at what was then the Fox Theatre (now occupied by Copley Symphony Hall') in San Diego, California, which advertised it as the only venue where the film could be seen in its original entirety, where it had a successful in-house run.
Despite the cuts made to the film, Freaks still garnered notice for the portrayal of its eponymous characters by people who worked as sideshow performers and had real disabilities.
These cast members included dwarf siblings Harry and Daisy Earles; Johnny Eck, who had sacral agenenis ; the conjoined twin sisters Daisy and Violet Hilton; and Schlitzie, a man with microcephaly.
Because of its controversial content, the film was banned in the United Kingdom for over 30 years, and was labelled as "brutal and grotesque" in Canada.
Though it received critical backlash and was a box-office failure upon initial release, Freaks was subject to public and critical reappraisal in the 1960s, as a long forgotten Hollywood classic, particularly in Europe, and was screened at the 1962 Venice Film Festival.
In retrospect, numerous film critics have suggested that the film presents a starkly sympathetic portrait of its sideshow characters rather than an exploitative one, with Andrew Sarris declaring Freaks one of the "most compassionate" films ever made.
Nonetheless, critics have continued to take note of the film's horror elements; in 2009, Joe Morgenstern proclaimed that Freaks contains some of the most terrifying scenes in film history.
Film scholars have interpreted the film as a metaphor for class conflict, reflecting the Great Depression, and it has been studied for its portrayal of people with disabilities, with theorists arguing that it presents an anti-eugenics message.
The film has been highly influential and is now considered a cult classic.
In 1994, it was selected for preservation by the United States National Film Registry which seeks to preserve films that are classified "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Directed by: Tod Browning.
Screenplay by: Willis Goldbeck and Leon Gordon.
Based on: "Spurs" by Tod Robbins.
Produced by: Tod Browning , Harry Rapf (uncredited) and Irving Thalberg (uncredited).
Starring: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova and Roscoe Ates.
Cinematography: Merritt B. Gerstad.
Edited by: Basil Wrangell.
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Distributed by: Loew's Inc.
Release date: 12 February , 1932.
File Length: 63 minutes.
Country: United States.
Languages: English, German and French.
Budget: $310,000
Box office: $341,000.
Any questions, comments, or ideas for future described movies: e-mail me: anthony at mushroomfm dot com (e-mail address written that way to cut down on
spam)
Enjoy the movies,