It Chapter Two Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details

Takes place in 2016, the same year as the famous clown sightings.

Stanley's head turns into a spider which looks exactly like the Spider Head in John Carpenters The Thing. Also, an actor from The Thing played Stanley's character in the IT Miniseries. In both, the exact words "You gotta be kidding me" are used when they see the Spider Head

The employee discussing the model tower at Ben's architecture firm is played by Brandon Crane, who played the young Ben Hanscom in the 1990 IT miniseries.

The asylum scene. TV's on and we can see Tom and Jerry chasing a piece of steak going down the drain. Much like George's paper boat from the first movie. Pretty cool.

You can see Pennywise in the portrait of Beverly and her husband

Henry Bowers room in the mental institution has drawings of the moon on the wall, this is a reference to Henry communicating with IT through the moon in the miniseries and book.

The movie poster spells out IT in the scene where Richie goes to the movie theater.

When watching with subtitles, "It" is capitalized when the characters are referencing the clown itself

Stephen King makes a cameo drinking a mate with Argentine club's crest, Independiente ("Los Diablos Rojos" aka The Red Devils). Afterwards, James McAvoy's character says "fast enough to beat the devil"

James Ransone's character Eddie Kaspbrak is stabbed in the left cheek, but a few minutes later when entering the sewer it shows on his right cheek.

: Director Andy Muschietti features Stephen King's character sipping Mate, a typical Argentine beverage, which has Andy's soccer team badge (Club Atletico Independiente) as a nod to his home country ??

IT: Chapter Two (2019) this Tom and Jerry episode play on the TV in the Bowers and the balloon hospital scene.

When "Mrs. Kirsch" answers the door for Beverly, you can clearly hear Pennywise accidentally using his real voice before adjusting it for his trick.

Opens with a brutal attack on Adrian Mellon, an openly gay man who's played by LGBTQ+ director Xavier Dolan. The character was infamously inspired by the real-life Charlie Howard, who was murdered by homophobes in Stephen King's home town of Bangor.

It: Chapter Two (2019) Stan's scars around his face are clearly visible in the tub scene, those scars caused by his encounter with it in the first movie. Reflecting the trauma he has been carrying for 27 years.

To emphasis Eddie's mother issues his mother in the first and wife in the second are played by the same actress.

the scene where Stephen King does the cameo as the antique store salesman, he is drinking mate, a traditional beverage from Argentina, country where the director Andr?s Muschietti is from. Also the mate has the shield of Independiente Muschietti?s soccer team in Argentina.

Pays homage to this classic scene from John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), another movie about a shapeshifting monster.

Stephen King himself plays the grumpy shopkeeper at Derry's Second Hand Rose and the jokes about the ending of the books not being good is actually referring to King's own books being criticized for the same reason.

The actress who plays Myra, Eddie's wife, is the same actress who plays Eddie's mother in Chapter 1, which goes along with the book in that he marries a woman just like his overprotective mother.

During the stephen king cameo you can see a christine license plate (christine is a stephen king movie/book for those who don't know)

The character Bill Denbrough is a famous writer who is told by several characters, including Stephen King himself, "I didn't like the ending." This is a reference to the criticism that both the book and earlier adaptations of IT received because of the way they ended.

Richie is wearing the same shirt Jesse wore in "A Nightmare On Elm Street 2".

Adrian Mellon says "Meg Ryan called, she wants her hair back" later a poster of You've Got Mail, with Meg Ryan, sppears behind Richie in the arcade *bonus it also spells out IT in the tear*

The three lights in the intro of "New Line Cinema" of "It: Chapter two" are the Death Lights.

The rip on the poster spells "IT"

There was a running gag where James McAvoy's character write bad endings for his book. This is probably a subtle reference to the fact that readers find most Stephen King books have bad endings.

At the end of IT Chapter 2, Bill is seen finishing up the first chapter of his next book. The paragraph that he's typing in a direct excerpt from the original novel.

IT (2017) During this shot of the blood pact scene, we can see Bev and Ben holding hands in the background with Eddie's LOVER cast in the foreground, a possible reference to their relationship in It Chapter 2 (2019)

It: Chapter 2 (2019) In the restaurant scene Pennywise eyes can be seen glowing behind Beverly just before she reveals her fortune cookie.