There are bleak movies – Robert Mitchum as a minister turned serial killer in 1955’s ultra disturbing The Night of The Hunter springs to mind – and then there is The Devil All The Time two and a half hours of unrelenting misery and hopelessness whose only joy lies in the fact that your own life is hopefully nowhere near as awful as any of the extremely unlucky characters which inhabit this dismal, unforgiving part of mid-century America.īased on former trucker Donald Ray Pollock’s 2011 debut novel – Pollock also provides an appropriately gravelly voiceover throughout – readers of the bestseller will already know what dark horrors await, but everyone else will catch up pretty quickly, as the terrors come thick and fast from the very start of this brutally gothic treatise on the dark directions religion can lead its followers in.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |