From stephenking.com: "A promise made twenty-eight years ago calls seven adults to reunite in Derry, Maine, where as teenagers they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city's children. Unsure that their Losers Club had vanquished the creature all those years ago, the seven had vowed to return to Derry if IT should ever reappear. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that summer return as they prepare to do battle with the monster lurking in Derry's sewers once more."
It was a made-for-TV movie, so no...you don't see the murders. Pennywise is shown with a large maw of razor sharp teeth, so yeah, he probably mangles the kids.
Even though it was originally aired on TV, it's still pretty creepy.