The Devil All The Time 9/10
Yay, a movie! Seriously, it feels like it has been so long since it felt like I watched an actual film. This has been a year full of more TV series than I've ever watched and older movies. So seeing The Devil All The Time was cool. Is this movie violent? Yes. But I didn't care. You see what I watch. I'm not gonna recap this entire movie point by point because I do want people who read reviews before watching movies to still be surprised by the things that happen in this. It is a lot of things happening. Oh, and there is a narrator which made this movie even better.
This starts in 1945 with a Marine named Willard Russell finding the body of a sergeant that was crucified and still alive covered in flies. He shoots him in the head to end his suffering but after that he is not able to look at crosses the same again. He heads home back to Ohio and meets a waitress. He sees a guy there that ends up being a very important character later in the movie. Fast forward Willard is married and has a son named Arvin. In another part of town this lady Helen who Willard's mom tried to set him up with previous falls for this crazy ass preacher. He puts spiders all over himself. He's weird.
The guy that bumped into Willard at the diner is named Carl. He is now with one of the other waitresses and driving around picking up hitchhikers and forcing them to have sex with his wife before killing them. Her brother is named Lee and he is a sheriff. He gets handjobs on the job. Fast forward and Willard's wife gets cancer and he uses a prayer rock to pray for her healing and smacks his son when he doesn't pray hard enough. Willard remembers that folks used to sacrifice for god so he shoots the dog and crucifies it. His wife dies and he slits his own throat. Arvin moves in with his grandparents. Oh, and the girl that was supposed to be set up with Willard and married that preacher? He lost his mind and stabbed her in the throat thinking he could resurrect her. He doesn't. He gets killed by Carl for not having sex with his wife.
I haven't even gotten to the part where Arvin grows up. This is a movie about honked up people creating more honked up people and those people trying to reconcile all the crazy ass issues they have not even begun to start dealing with. I thought that this entire movie would make me feel bummed out but it didn't at all. The story and characters were detailed just enough to keep things going and I had to pay attention because everyone had a part to play. The acting in this was incredible. I didn't watch this going “Oh, no! Why did Pennywise treat Spider Man like that and how will Batman handle this situation?” I was lost in this film. This made me want to see everyone actor and actress in other movies and I checked their pages and will be looking some stuff up. This was on Netflix but didn't feel like a Netflix movie. I didn't have to keep my hands on the remote to turn down loud music and turn up the talking.
Tom Holland as Arvin Russell
Michael Banks Repeta as 9 year old Arvin Russell
Bill Skarsgård as Willard Russell
Robert Pattinson as Reverend Preston Teagardin
Riley Keough as Sandy Henderson
Jason Clarke as Carl Henderson
Sebastian Stan as Sheriff Lee Bodecker
Haley Bennett as Charlotte Russell
Eliza Scanlen as Lenora Laferty
Mia Wasikowska as Helen Hatton
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