...manages to pull out all the stops and in several areas actually tops the first film.

Bill Skarsgård... With a performance that’s as physical as it is verbal, he consistently manages to find that sweet spot between being terrifying and hilarious.

It is glorious to see this stuff envisioned on such a huge and self-assured scale, a joy to have a film of this size trading in this sort of genre carnage with such uncompromising and unapologetic style.

...a hugely ambitious horror blockbuster the likes of which we’ve not seen since Kubrick’s 'The Shining'.

Välspelat och kusligt för hela slanten.

Det er let nok at lege psykotisk klovn med trang til at maltraktere og fortære, og holde det på eet niveau, men Hr. Skarsgård formår at holde klovnens sindssyge morskab for øje samt en tydelig barnlig sårethed, når de andre børn ikke vil lege med.