![]() There’s a pox on the houses of the Russells and the Lafertys. ![]() Willard later nails some poor woodland creature to it. Willard Russell (Bill Skarsgard) returns home from World War II in the South Pacific, where he saw a terrible, blasphemous sight, and after putting up a wooden cross in the woods behind the house, he forces his son Arvin (Michael Banks Repeta as a boy) to pray kneeling before it. Based on the 2011 novel by Donald Ray Pollock, whose work has been labeled “Hillbilly Gothic,” it’s more like Southern-Fried Gothic kitsch as adapted by director Antonio Campos (“Christine”) and Paulo Campos. ![]() It’s also pseudo-Flannery O’Connor and Faulkner on crystal meth, too. At Landmark Kendall Square Cinema.Ĭalamity, catastrophe, PTSD, murder, rape, serial killing and suicide: It’s “The Devil All the Time,” all right. ![]()
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