He is taken to his grandma's home where he meets his stepsister, Lenora (Eliza Scanlen) who had a similarly tragic story to tell. A number of prayers and a horrific sacrifice later, she passed away and Willard doesn't stay long either, leaving behind Arvin by himself. His fate in god returns after his wife is diagnosed with cancer. But when he and his wife move to a small house up the hill in Ohio, he sets up makeshift altar behind his cabin in the woods where he would take his son along to pray. Willard refused to indulge in prayer after what he'd witnessed on the frontline. The Southern Gothic Netflix flick starts off with a soldier, Willard Russell (Bill Skarsgård), returning from the War in the Pacific, bearing the gruesome and haunting images of the war who meets his wife at a cafe. The Devil All The Time is set between the aftermath of World War II and before the Vietnam War. But I think it is safe to say that director Antonio Campos has narrated the book, rather than dramatically played it out.

Although I haven't read the book, I was already sceptical about the dramatisation of the novel. There were remarkable reviews which spoke highly of the literature. When I first watched the trailer of the movie The Devil All The Time, I read the reviews of the book, bearing the same title, that the movie is based on. Readers, I come to thee with a confession.

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