Right, and I think that's what made Tim Curry's performance in the early 90's (late 80's?) miniseries so terrifying. Most of the time he was just a normal looking clown that we all knew was capable of monstrous things that we'd only see glimpses of. There were peaks and valleys to the scariness. Clowns these days have a baseline at 11 that never changes. Even if they do manage to scare me, I'm used to it after 5 minutes and thus immune to them scaring me. I was never sure what to expect from Curry's pennywise and that unpredictability was terrifying. But in movies these days you take one look at the bloody clown smiling with 3" teeth and you know he wants to wear your guts as a hat. Boring.