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October 1957: "It" awakens and the town of Derry, Maine will never be the same. Stephen King has breathed life into the embodiment of all childhood phobias and fears, exposing seven children to a malevolent force that takes on many forms, including a clown face. The terrifying clown lives in the city's sewers, where he sets out to hunt and kill. Years later, the survivors return as adults to put an end to another wave of his unbridled murder... [source: csfd.cz]

This year, movie nights at the University Library will feature films based on books by Stephen King, one of the best-selling and most active authors of our time. He is also known as the Master of Horror.

In the University Library you could see the following movies before the screening of the film It:

• September 25th Carrie (1976)
• October 30th The Dead Zone (1983)
• November 20th Stand by Me (1986)

The films will be screened in collaboration with the American Center in Plzeň in English with English subtitles, and each screening will be introduced in English by Bradley Vice, a lecturer at the Faculty of Education specializing in American literature. The screenings will take place in the hall of the Library Bory (Univerzitní 18) starting at 5:00 p.m.