According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO‘s horror-thriller It: Welcome to Derry revealed a new credit sequence for the upcoming second episode. The second episode of the season will be released a few days early for Halloween.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, the new sequence peels apart the Maine town during the early 1960s to gradually reveal an increasingly horrifying succession of postcard-like tableaus. The sequence is set to the 1956 song “A Smile and A Ribbon,” by Patience and Prudence (Should I, You Tattletale), and extends HBO’s track record for creating groundbreaking titles for shows. The executive producer of the series, Andy Muschietti (The Flash, The Brave and the Bold) calls the concept “a descent into dread” that was inspired by the film’s postcard-tourism Welcome to Derry title.

“The name Welcome to Derry felt touristic and brings you to the world of postcards and facade, which has a lot to do with what Derry is — a place that’s seemingly wholesome, but there’s something dreadful under the surface,” says Muschietti, via The Hollywood Reporter. “There was a lot of tweaking and calibration — how much is the next step? It reflects our desire to show the big catastrophic events, all leading to the explosion at the Ironworks.”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the explosion at the Ironworks factory as well as other events in the credit sequence, will not necessarily be depicted in the series. The same applies to the shootout in the street with the Bradley Gang, which occurred during the 1930s. A significant component of the song was that it was originally intended for a sequence where a character gets ready for school. After trying the song with the opening sequence it fit much better than the original plan.

“The song is about faking a state of mind, faking a feeling,” Muschietti says via The Hollywood Reporter. “The message of the song wrapped in such a beautiful tune is dreadful in itself.”

Below is the new opening credit of It: Welcome to Derry.