![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the same voice that I hear down the phone when I call Pollock at home in Ross County, Ohio – where Netflix film is set, and where the author has lived his whole life. ![]() These are Pollock’s words, but Antonio Campos’s critically acclaimed adaptation of his book has allowed us to hear them in his voice for the first time. “Four-hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957,” a voice rich in Appalachian husk explains over images of bare trees and secluded wooden buildings, “nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.” The opening lines of new Netflix crime thriller, The Devil All The Time, will be very familiar if you’ve read the Donald Ray Pollock novel it’s based on. ![]()
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