Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Donald Ray Pollock | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
Bill Skarsgård | ... | Willard | |
Tom Holland | ... | Arvin | |
Michael Banks Repeta | ... | Arvin at 9 | |
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Emilio Subercaseaux Campos | ... | Baby Arvin |
Haley Bennett | ... | Charlotte | |
Kristin Griffith | ... | Emma | |
Sebastian Stan | ... | Deputy Lee Bodecker | |
Riley Keough | ... | Sandy | |
Jason Clarke | ... | Carl | |
Harry Melling | ... | Roy | |
Pokey LaFarge | ... | Theodore | |
Eliza Scanlen | ... | Lenora | |
Robert Pattinson | ... | Rev. Preston Teagardin | |
David Atkinson | ... | Earskell |
Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There's Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his "prayer log." There's Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll America's highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There's the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte's orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right.
Okay Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Robert Pattinson, Sebastian Stan and harry Melling acted great in this movie. The story was unlike anything I'd ever seen personally, it was messy but also satisfying. I was interested in what was going to happen throughout the movie and it just kept going. The ending won't work for everyone but it worked for me. I give this movie an 8/10 for acting and how they told the story in a new way.