YMMV / Child of God

• Complete Monster: Lester Ballard is a necrophiliac Serial Killer who roams Frog Mountain in search of victims. The first crime he commits is attacking a woman and ripping off her dress, for which he's sentenced to a few nights in jail for rape. Sometime after his release, he finds the corpse of a young woman and has sex with it, then takes it back to his house to further indulge in his newfound lust. He seeks shelter in the winter with a young woman and her child, and shoots her to death for rejecting his sexual advances, before burning down the house with the child inside. Later on, he murders a couple in their car, and then a man who's out cleaning his septic tank; It's also stated that he had killed several other men and women within this time frame. Hospitalized when he loses his arm when he failed to kill one of his victims, he tells the nurse that he wishes his victim had died. When a mob of hunters take a one-armed Ballard from the hospital and force him to lead them to the bodies of his victims, he escapes them and returns to the hospital to avoid being killed.
• Crosses the Line Twice: There's a scene where Ballard is watching a couple have sex in their car, and is mortified when he thinks the man is black. When he sees his face, it turns out he's not.
• Cry for the Devil: While he's most certainly not a likable person, Ballard does have his moments where seems more pitiful than disgusting, being a homeless man with a troubled childhood and all.
• Moral Event Horizon: Ballard was never a good person, committing acts of sexual assault, necrophilia, and just being generally unpleasant. However, his depravity reaches its peak when he murders a young woman and her child just because she refused his sexual advances.
• Nightmare Fuel: It's a Cormac McCarthy novel, and its protagonist is a necrophile who degenerated into serial murder. This is inevitable. But the ending in particular, where the rotting bodies of his victims are exhumed from a mass grave where he buried them is particularly disturbing.
• Squick: There's a ... rather descriptive scene of Ballard's feces. Also, he has a brief (but still gross) relationship with a woman's corpse.
• Tear Jerker: Ballard's house burning down, along with the corpse of the young woman he found. Surprisingly, this is somehow sad, even with the necrophiliac context.