The devil all time book6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() But he meanders, too, as if he were trying to recollect some half-forgotten past. You can imagine him spinning this tale while sitting in an old rocking chair, on the porch of a family home. Pollock is wise and strange, occasionally foul-mouthed (he suggests one of his characters “smelled worse than a truck stop sh***er”). ![]() The voice belongs to Donald Ray Pollock, the American author who penned the “mid-western Gothic” tale Antonio Campos here adapts for the screen. It introduces us to the time, 1957, and the places the exquisitely named Knockemstiff, Ohio, and Coal Creek, West Virginia. The first thing we hear is a cracked, slow voice. Netflix’s The Devil All the Time is a film of devastating isolation the woods that surround these towns seem hungry, ready to close in. Starring: Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgard, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Eliza Scanlen, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson. ![]()
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