Interested in Digital Spy's weekly newsletter? Sign up to get it sent straight to your inbox. Access this edition with a 1-month free trial, only on Apple News+. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. The Devil All the Time is now available on Netflix.ĭigital Spy has launched its first-ever digital magazine with exclusive features, interviews, and videos. There are many directions a sequel could go, but knowing fans they'll want to see the second instalment of Arvin's story. Though there is no sequel novel, that doesn't preclude Campos doing his own sequel – after all, we presume they've got a decent working relationship if the novelist was the narrator of Campos' film.Īll this to say, we don't know what the future holds for the residents of Knockemstiff or for Arvin himself. The Devil All the Time is based on a novel of the same name by Donald Ray Pollock who serves as the film's narrator, too. Campos seems keener to explore the second option. Just look who's in this thing.There's also the possibility of staying in Knockemstiff and exploring other characters who live in the small Ohio town. Come for top actors enjoying a weekend off the leash. Netflixs The Devil All The Time is a character-driven psychological thriller that focuses on the details, including a secret hidden meaning behind Sandy and Carls photographs. There is an argument here about the corrupting influence of religion on ordinary Americans, but it is made with such bellowing cacophony that tinnitus ends up blurring the syntax. Keough and Clarke are out there harvesting drifters. Pattinson arrives to spread ill-will and lusty genes.

So much public civility fails to conceal so much private depravity. Who could tell? The Devil all the Time is so loaded with mania that Arvin hardly stands out from the crowd.

Played by Tom Holland as an adult, the Knockemstiff local suffers PTSD in the Pacific Campaign that leads to a greater breakdown when illness hits the family and warps his religious faith. We begin out catalogue of chaos with young Arvin Russell. The picture takes us from the second World War to the conflict in Vietnam. But the delicious spiciness of the gumbo (or whatever the midwestern equivalent might be) will keep even the driest sceptic awake. The characters struggle to develop personalities beyond their collective, God-driven psychosis. The fractured nature of the narrative ultimately becomes frustrating. Though apparently based on Pollock's own experiences (can this really be so?), the picture comes across as a clutter of yarns told to thrill gullible visitors on the porch of a roadside inn. Even worse things happen than in his earlier work, but the tone is so heightened here that few viewers will leave The Devil all the Time in any state of existential despair. Antonio Campos, director of Simon Killer and Christine, two differently grim projects, moves into a different register.

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