Campos depicts Knockemstiff as a place where loyalty only emerges through family members, and so the odds are stacked against Arvin when Willard kills himself after Charlotte dies from cancer. They raise a son named Arvin (Michael Banks Repeta), who learns about the cruel ways of the world, certainly within his Ohio community. In The Devil All the Time, Willard Russell ( Bill Skarsgård) and wife Charlotte (Haley Bennett) move from Coal River, Virginia to Knockemstiff in 1957. According to author Donald Ray Pollock, who wrote the film's source material, Knockemstiff has a reputation for being a tough place to live. Donald Ray Pollock presents his characters and the sordid goings-on with a stern intelligence, a bracing absence of value judgments, and a refreshingly dark sense of bottom-dog humor.The primary setting of The Devil All the Time is based on a real American town, but is it anything like the one depicted in the movie? Directed by Antonio Campos, the Netflix crime film begins in post-World War II Virginia and then shifts to a small Ohio community.
A psychotic rural recluse comes upon two siblings committing incest and feels compelled to take action. A father pumps his son full of steroids so he can vicariously relive his days as a perpetual runner-up body builder. Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked stories that comprise Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring characters who are irresistibly, undeniably real. Knockemstiff is a genuine entry into the literature of place. "More engaging than any new fiction in years." -Chuck Palahniuk An unforgettable work of fiction that peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents. Binding: Trade Paperback ISBN: 076792830X Book Condition: New Publisher: Anchor, March 2009.
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