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Warner Bros. brought the very first footage from It Chapter Twoto CinemaCon Tuesday, and so far at least, it looks just as scary as its predecessor.

Director Andy Muschietti was on hand to introduce the footage, along with most of the Losers' Club, old and young, including Sophia Lillis and Jessica Chastain as Beverly, Finn Wolfhard and Bill Hader as Richie, and James McAvoy as Bill.

"Last time I was here, I promised you were going to shit your pants. Do you remember something about adult diapers?" said Muschietti. "So let's double down on that statement."

Most of the footage shown was an extended scene featuring a grown-up Beverly, visiting Derry for the first time in a while.

She rings the doorbell to her old home, but her father has passed away and doesn't live there anymore. Instead, she's let in by an old woman named Mrs. Kersh (book spoilers at the link), who offers her a cup of tea and invites her to take a look around.

Beverly finds the old postcard with Ben's "Your hair is winter fire" poem on it, and smiles, reminiscing. But while she's distracted, we see the old woman being dragged away in the background.

Mrs. Kersh returns in time to pour Beverly's tea, though something seems strange about her. "You know what they say about Derry," she says, fixing an unmoving smile on Beverly. "No one who dies here ever really dies." She fans herself, revealing a festering wound on her chest.

Beverly, rattled, stands and asks about some old family photographs on the wall. "My father joined the circus," Mrs. Kersh explains, as Beverly notices one particular photograph of what looks like Pennywise sans makeup.

"I was always Daddy's little girl." Mrs. Kersh, naked now, begins to attack Beverly. "What about you? Are you still his little girl, Beverly?"

The scene ends there, but the video kept going with a sizzle reel of the Losers' Club, cutting back and forth between their older and younger selves. They're all back in Derry, revisiting their former haunts and old relationships.

There are glimpses of the horrors to come, too: countless balloons floating across an ink-black sky, someone apparently drowning in blood, Pennywise popping out of the darkness for a quick and chilling "hello."

The kids may be older now, but the evil that once haunted them clearly hasn't faded with age. Here's hoping their chemistry hasn't either.

It Chapter Twoarrives in theaters Sept. 6.

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