15 Overhyped Movies You Wish You'd Not Watched

6. The Devil All The Time

Blonde Ana de Armas
Netflix

The Devil All the Time is another one of those movies that sounded absolutely awesome, especially with that ridiculously amazing cast, and instead turned out to be one of the worst movies of its year. Sadly, that year was 2020, a year when people really needed a good movie to get their teeth into. 

The film is little more than an overstuffed cast of dark and (mostly) unsympathetic characters killing each other and themselves. As such, it's already underdeveloped on a narrative level but what makes it so much worse is that this is one of the most nauseating types of films - it thinks that it's smart when it totally isn't.  

For all of the film's nauseatingly pretentious dialogue and philosophical voiceovers it doesn't really say or do anything profound or interesting, instead mistaking being dark and transgressive for having any actual depth. It's just a seriously ugly movie, one that gives nothing to its audience. 

Well, nothing aside from the memories of sexual abuse, a dog being crucified, weightless death scenes, shallow nihilism, Jason Clarke mutilating an unfortunate hitchhiker and of course, all of those risible Southern accents. 

Yeah, this is most definitely a film most everyone could've done without, especially during one of the hardest years in recent memory. 

 
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Film Studies graduate, aspiring screenwriter and all-around nerd who, despite being a pretentious cinephile who loves art-house movies, also loves modern blockbusters and would rather watch superhero movies than classic Hollywood films. Once met Tommy Wiseau.