It: Welcome to Derry, fans assemble! Stephen King's book series has many fans who go back and forth, connecting the dots in the Kingverse. This time, not a book or a show but The Conjuring: Last Rites has come up with a subtle connection.The film has an easter egg that many fans may have missed. It: Welcome to Derry has concluded its debut season in December Last Rites, and ever since, fans look for clues to connect the story and its many details.The Conjuring: Last Rites has an easter egg that IT: Welcome to Derry fans may missDetails, characters or symbols from shows rarely bleed into films as allusions or easter eggs, mainly due to studio rights and other reasons. But what already connects The Conjuring films and King's world is the underlying sense of dread. View this post on Instagram Instagram PostBoth the books, It: Welcome to Derry and the film from the Conjuring universe are firmly placed in the genre of horror. Therefore, for ardent horror fans, the easter egg means a new window.The fourth chapter in the Conjuring series, which started with Conjuring (2013), is titled Conjuring: The Last Rites and features in central roles Vera Farmiga as Lorraine and Patrick Wilson as Ed Warren.In this film, the horrifying story of the Smurl family's hauntings is told. One particular scene pictures the family. When the family sits down for breakfast together, Dawn reacts badly to a bowl of cereal he was having.The brand of cereals consumed by Dawn was 'Penny Loops'. However small, even fans recently acquainted with the Kingverse would instantly recognize the connection. Pennywise is the single most dreaded creature jeopardizing and horrifying Derry.The film does not use the exact image of Pennywise but the box printing reads: 'Penny Carnival Cutout'. The Conjuring franchise has featured many scary entities: the Crooken Man of Conjuring 2, the haunted doll Annabelle, the Nun, the witch from the first film, Conjuring. Even within the conjuring universe, stories are connected and characters often carry over into stories. King's lore is very interconnected, to the extent that it is difficult to adapt them to the screen.One of the reasons why King's world in It: Welcome to Derry can be carried into another film, even mildly, is that the show has established Pennywise not as a fixed identity. It takes shape and traverses across non-linear timelines.Therefore, from a storytelling perspective, the constraints are limited for one of the most feared evils of Derry. While the reference is clearly meant as an Easter egg rather than a confirmation of a shared cinematic universe, it reflects how contemporary horror increasingly plays with intertextuality.It: Welcome to Derry (Image via Amazon Prime Video)These moments reward attentive viewers without going too deep into the lore already established in the books. This also allows two big franchises to gesture toward each other while remaining celebrated in their own unique ways, telling their own unique stories.Easter eggs in horror are especially important for their contribution to helping mystery lovers connect the dots. The show already has a palpable connection with legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, through the character of Dick Halloran.This connection was pivotal to the show and the finale it got after 7 episodes. For fans of It: Welcome to Derry, such details reaffirm Pennywise’s place as a flexible, almost omnipresent horror figure rather than a creature bound to one town or timeline.It: Welcome to Derry is now streaming on HBO Max.