Scary Red Band Trailer for HBO Max’s ‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ Series

Scary Red Band Trailer for HBO Max’s ‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ Series

by Alex Billington
October 14, 2025
Source: YouTube

“Fear – it settles on every living person it touches like a fog.” Whoa – Pennywise wants you to join his pile of dead! HBO Max has debuted a brand novel, extra scary full trailer for IT: Welcome to Derry, a freaky horror spin-off series based on the two IT movies from 2017 & 2019. This has been in development for years, finally debuting for streaming starting later in October. This is the best trailer yet! It’s filled with seriously frightening footage and a better look at the various intertwining storylines. This prequel about Pennywise the Clown is set back in the 1960s in Derry, leading up to the events of the first movie. The director of the movies, Andy Muschietti, developed with his sister, Barbara. IT: Welcome to Derry stars Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, Rudy Mancuso, and Bill Skarsgård returning to his iconic evil clown role. This trailer shows more of what’s going on in this town – stories involving kids and the military and a disappearance… And eventually the arrival of the alien creature that becomes Pennywise. Finally some footage that actually makes me want to tune in! Take a look.

Here’s the novel red band trailer (+ poster) for HBO Max’s series IT: Welcome to Derry, from YouTube:

You can rewatch the other trailer for HBO Max’s IT: Welcome to Derry series right here for more footage.

“You were never meant to leave.” Set in Derry right inside the world of Stephen King’s IT universe, the novel HBO Max Original Series “IT: Welcome to Derry” is based on King’s “IT” novel and expands the vision established by Andy Muschietti in the feature films IT (2017) and IT Chapter Two (2019). It is set in the 1960s, the time leading up to the events of the first film in series about Pennywise the Clown. IT: Welcome to Derry is a series developed by Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, Jason Fuchs. Created and showrun by Jason Fuchs and Brad Kane. With a teleplay written by Jason Fuchs. Featuring episodes directed by Andy Muschietti. Adapted from the novel titled “It” written by Stephen King and first published in 1986. Made by HBO and Warner Bros Television. Executive produced by Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti (through their Double Dream production company), along with Jason Fuchs, Brad Caleb Kane, David Coatsworth, Bill Skarsgård, Shelley Meals, Roy Lee, and Dan Lin. HBO will debut the IT: Welcome to Derry series streaming on HBO Max starting October 26th, 2025 coming soon this fall. Who’s into this series? Ready to watch?

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