The Devil All The Time (Netflix -2020) Maybe fate decreed we ended up watching this right after the 'Ratched' mini-series........
One similarity struck us......
Both shows feature a large gallery of grotesques.......a dysfunctional buffet of psychotics, fanatics, physical abusers, rapists, necrophiles, and all sorts of folks with some serious anger management issues.......
The main difference : while the 'Ratched; loons mostly cavort inside a posh asylum, the country-fied crazies of "The Devil All The Time" shuffle back and forth between two tiny rustic towns.....Coal Creek, Ohio and....(wait for it)........Knockemstiff, West Virginia.
Needless to say, any number of these hayseeds get knocked out stiff.....or get throbbing stiffies.......or end up as slab stiffs. Sometimes all three.
If nothing else,the film trumpets its ambitious, epic scope, telling a backwoods gothic tale that sprawls from post-World War 2 to Vietnam..But this film really hasn't much on its mind, other than unfolding its extensive catalog of horrors
And it drags on for 2 hours and 20 minutes with its collection of woeful bumpkins committing no end of atrocities on each other.
This is like someone telling you the endless backstory of all those creepy, inbred shitkickers that the vacationing college students encounter in all those 'backwoods' chainsaw massacre movies.
It moves at the rate of a quarter-mile an hour and it's deeply in love with its own presentation of its doomed, star-crossed characters and their various miseries and misfortunes.
Some of you might feel tempted to try it just for the sight of Robert Pattinson as a sanctimonious preacher who's into impregnating as many teen girls as he can get his hands on. Pattinson himself seems to have fun with it........but trust us, you won't.
We can't even refer to this film as guilty pleasure......since there's absolutely no pleasure whatsoever in sitting through it.
Yuck, overall. An unholy mess, unfit for human consumption. Zero stars. (0)
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