NEW YORK CITY — Here’s a new complaint to add to your long, long list of L train woes: among its commuters is a child-eating clown. <\/p>\n
Pennywise — the demonic clown terrorizing the children of Derry in Stephen King’s classic novel “It” — was spotted with his iconic red balloon in hand on a Manhattan-bound L train, video shows. <\/p>\n
“We all float down here,” Pennywise informed is fellow straphangers, who did not seem to be in fear for their lives. <\/p>\n
One L train rider waved at Pennywise and he gave a polite wave back. <\/p>\n
The L Train It is actually New York City magician Alejandro Torres, who said the videographer caught him commuting home at 1 a.m. after a daylong shoot in Manhattan. <\/p>\n
“I was trying to get back to Brooklyn,” said Torres, who plans to release video of his Pennywise magic video next week. “I did my best to stay in character but I was exhausted.”<\/p>\n
Torres said his It-inspired magic show movie will feature red balloons, pompoms, and the throaty up-speak made iconic by Hollywood’s Bill Skarsgård, who will portray the evil clown in the Warner Bros. sequel “IT Chapter Two,” scheduled to release on Sept. 6. <\/p>\n
“I want to take stuff that can be seen as scary and make it fun,” Torres told Patch. “The reactions so far have been really positive.”<\/p>\n
The video was shared by SubwayCreatures, New York’s favorite Instagram account for tracking MTA oddities, and had been seen more than 600,000 times as of Monday morning. <\/p>\n
Several followers were quick to quip that the evil subway clown had a harder time scaring New Yorkers than the residents of the fictional Derry, Maine, where King set his 1986 horror novel. <\/p>\n
“Hilarious,” wrote chefterridien. “Clearly no one is threatened by Pennywise in New York.”<\/p>\n
“Ugh, wrote babygotslack. “Hate running into my ex on the train.” <\/p>\n