![]() ![]() Existence was hard in the misty hollers of West Virginia and Southeast Ohio back in the 1950s and '60s, a scramble through a muck of religious hypocrisy and other predation that landed pretty much everyone facedown in the mud. This is all, I guess, supposed to communicate some sort of gritty truth. The men don’t fare much better: they’re shot, maimed, and tortured. It makes for a heady, unappetizing stew.īy my count, the women of The Devil All the Time experience the following: death by cancer, death by suicide, death by murder, rape, and another murder. Antonio Campos’s film, adapted from Donald Ray Pollock’s novel, shows us every manner of backwoods shock and depravity. The current film in question, Netflix’s The Devil All the Time (out September 16), would seem to exhaust all potential cliches in perpetuity, though-at least those of the gothic thriller variety. We’ve seen this before, and will soon see it again in the upcoming Hillbilly Elegy. Once again, a troupe of actors has gone humping up to Appalachia, carrying with them banjo-twang accents, some sounding almost swallowed by gravel, all determined to tell a story of life in the lonely wild. ![]()
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