The Devil All the Time

Extreme violence throughout includes war scenes, two suicides, more than a dozen people killed in variety of ways shown in graphic detail (mostly shooting and stabbing). Characters maim or kill for different reasons: out of a misguided religious faith (as a sacrifice, or to attempt a resurrection), to teach their kids a lesson, to protect or avenge loved ones, as self-defense, for personal pleasure, or to avoid being exposed as corrupt. Two serial killers lure in young men with sex, then photograph them dead or dying. A man kills a dog as a sacrifice to God to save his dying wife.

A local bar has sex workers. A teen boy and girl are fooling around in a school bus; he's about to take off his pants before they're interrupted. Teen boys chase and tease a female classmate, talking about "hard-ons." A woman pleasures a man in his car so that he ejaculates into a cup. A priest convinces teenage girls to take off their clothes, engage in sexual acts with him, which we see from inside or outside his car (undressing and positions suggested) or from outside his window (a woman performing oral sex). A man who has watched the priest describes the acts in detail. A man and woman lure young hitchhikers to have sex with the woman (the man commands one to "f--k" his wife) so that the man can photograph and kill them; we see these acts in a detailed series of underexposed photos that show some sexual positions and nudity.

"S--t," "f--k," "bulls--t," "ass," "godforsaken," "hell," "sons of bitches," "goddamnit," "pimping," "whore."

A soldier drinks to celebrate coming home from war. The same man later drinks by himself at a bar as his wife dies of cancer. People discuss a man who "got sober" and another who is a "drunk." A serial killing couple drink liquor straight from a bottle with one of their victims.