While I will admit I’m not usually looking for particularly dark stories in my movies these days, the world is full of enough of that, there’s something drawing me in about The Devil All the Time. Perhaps it’s seeing Tom Holland play a role so far from what I am used to seeing. Based on the plot synopsis his character of Arvin is focused on trying to protect his family from the various evils that are surrounding them, but at the same time, Arvin doesn’t appear entirely innocent himself. When the character is given a gun at the beginning of the trailer it’s difficult to tell if he truly doesn’t like it, or if he’s simply afraid of what it might mean for him.
We see that Arvin is going to use that gun, because of course he is, and we even see where he plans to use it. It doesn’t honestly feel like the trailer is giving all that much away. The far more interesting question of The Devil All the Time is why and how things have come to this point.
While this may be about as far from a superhero story as you can get, it is, in a way, a Spider-Man: Far From Home reunion, as the new film is being produced by Jake Gyllenhaal. The Devil All the Time is based on an award-winning novel by Donald Ray Pollack who grew up in the town of Knockemstiff, Ohio, where the story takes place.
More to come…
