Director: Andy Muschietti
Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Stephen Rider, Amanda Christine
It: Welcome to Derry is a 2025 American horror series directed by Andy Muschietti, serving as a prequel to the celebrated It film adaptations. Set in the haunted town of Derry, Maine during the 1960s, the show charts the terror that gripped a generation before the Losers' Club ever faced Pennywise.
What is It: Welcome to Derry about?
Derry, Maine harbors a darkness that predates everything the Losers' Club would later confront. Decades before their fateful summer, the town's residents live under the shadow of a malevolent presence that surfaces every twenty-seven years to feed on fear. This series pulls back the curtain on that earlier era — the 1960s — when ordinary people first began to sense that something deeply wrong had taken root beneath their streets. Families fracture, children vanish, and a community struggles to name what it cannot explain. The show builds its dread methodically, layering small-town secrets with supernatural menace, and introducing a cast of characters who must reckon with a force that has terrorized Derry across generations. With Bill Skarsgård reprising his iconic role, the horror feels both familiar and freshly unsettling.
Cast & crew
Bill Skarsgård returns as the shape-shifting entity that haunts Derry, bringing the same unnerving physicality that defined his earlier performances. Taylour Paige and Jovan Adepo anchor the human drama as residents caught in the town's cycle of violence. Stephen Rider, Amanda Christine, Clara Stack, Mikkal Karim Fidler, and Jack Molloy Legault round out the ensemble, each portraying lives upended by what stirs beneath the surface.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora, horror has always been a genre that travels across borders — its fears are universal, its atmosphere immediately felt. It: Welcome to Derry arrives with Persian dubbing, meaning you can watch this chilling prequel in your own language without missing a beat of dialogue or dread. The series fits squarely into the tradition of American prestige horror: carefully crafted, psychologically rich, and rooted in a sense of place that feels both specific and archetypal. Fans of the 2017 and 2019 It films will find this a rewarding expansion of the mythology, while newcomers can enter through the 1960s setting without prior knowledge.
Where & how to watch
It: Welcome to Derry is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. Stream it on the web, on your TV دستگاه, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and you can cancel anytime.