History YMMV / TheDevilAllTheTime

* EpilepticTrees: There is a dark theory that [[spoiler:the man that Arvin hitchhikes with at the end]] is UsefulNotes/CharlesManson.

** [[PedophilePriest Reverend Preston Teagardin]] is a charismatic preacher in the old South, but also a sexual predator who targets underaged girls. After seducing Arvin's sister Lenora and leaving her pregnant before cruelly dismissing her, [[DrivenToSuicide leading her to suicide]], Teagardin [[NeverMyFault refuses any hint of responsibility]]. Arvin later confirms Teagardin is a SerialRapist who seduces and assaults girls, never once acknowledging a hint of responsibility.

* CompleteMonster: Carl Henderson is an amateur photographer who, [[UnholyMatrimony with his wife Sandy]], gets into [[SerialKiller serial murder]]. [[HarmfulToHitchhikers Picking up hitchhikers]], Carl forces them to strip, [[RapeByProxy sleep with Sandy]] as he photographs them, before torturing and murdering them. Murdering a reverend at first when he refuses to participate, Carl spends the next 15 years killing many innocents, taking immense pleasure in their helpless terror and agony before killing them and keeping the photos as [[CreepySouvenir trophies]].

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Tom Holland really wows the audience here. Not only does he prove that he is more than just [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Spider-Man]], but he also manages to convincingly play a troubled individual ultimately [[spoiler: driven to murder]], complete with an improvised American accent

* WhatAnIdiot: Despite already knowing [[spoiler: how protective he was of Lenora]], Preston ''still'' felt the need [[spoiler: to constantly tell Arvin that she was crazy and it was [[NeverMyFault her fault she slept with him]] in the first place]].

** [[spoiler:Spider-Man Kills John Connor.]]

** [[spoiler:Spider-Man Kills [[Film/TheBatman2021 Batman]].]]

** Arvin is a toughened and unease kid, but it's clear [[spoiler: the trauma inflicted by his father didn't help him at all]] and by the end of the movie [[spoiler: he runs from the law after killing a preacher, two killers and a corrupt police]].

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Tom Holland really wows the audience here. Not only does he prove that he is more than just Spider-Man, but he also manages to convincingly play a troubled individual ultimately [[spoiler: driven to murder]], complete with an improvised American accent

** [[spoiler:Spider-Man Kills Batman.]]
** [[spoiler:Spider-Man Kills The Winter Soldier.]]
*** Jokes about Creator/SebastianStan joining the film just so he can terrorise Creator/TomHolland.

*** Jokes about Creator/SebastianStan joining the film just so he can terrorise Creator/TomHolland
.** [[spoiler:Spider-Man Kills John Connor.]]

** [[spoiler:Spider-Man Kills John Connor.]]

* CompleteMonster: Carl Henderson is an amateur photographer who, [[UnholyMatrimony with his wife Sandy]], gets into [[SerialKiller serial murder]]. [[HarmfulToHitchhikers Picking up hitchhikers]], Carl forces them to strip, [[RapeByProxy sleep with Sandy]] as he photographs them, before torturing and murdering them. Murdering a reverend at first when he refuses to participate, Carl spends the next 15 years killing many innocents, taking immense pleasure in their helpless terror and agony before killing them and keeping the photos as [[CreepySouvenir trophies]]. In the film even the narrator calls him a "sick fuck".

** Preston Teagardin as well. He's a preacher who preys on teenage girls, and in the book, he has a young wife he's essentially "trained" to be a sex slave.