The plot focuses around the murder of two people. Because of this, the murder and some of the details of the murder are mentioned often, sometimes flippantly.
The opening scene shows a teenager throw a bloody axe into a river. We see his hand and the axe handle covered in copious amounts of blood.
Police officers find one of the parents' body. We see a close up of the body's head with blood, and the blood stained washer and dryer in the room.
There is a bloody handprint on the door, which lead the police to a body lying in the grass. We see no gore on the body.
An adult drags a child to another room by his arms after he angers his parents by misbehaving. The child is not hurt and it is later stated that the parents regretted punishing their children.
A character throws a stack of wood at another character. Nobody is harmed.
Two teens are seen rolling around in the aisles of a bus. They grab hair and throw each other around. We see a close up of one of the two as he punches offscreen, with the implication that he's striking at his opponent.
A teen boy is grabbed by his shirt and backhanded, with verbal explanation that this has happened prior and will happen again.
During a game of volleyball, an adult strikes the ball into the face of a youth. It is verbally stated that it was an accident, but it is implied to have been intentional. We later see the child holding his face, but there is no blood or bruising.
While breaking into a house, a teen boy decides to destroy things. He throws two glass bottles and then attacks the furniture with a fireplace poker.
We see scenes from George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" on the television. We see the first zombie attacking someone, though the screen switches points of view and never explicitly shows any violence.
After sneaking out on a date, a teenaged boy is accosted by his parents. His father grabs him by the collar, but does not do any other physical damage.
We are shown twice the murderer standing, the right side of his hair, face and upper torso covered in blood. We also see him covered in the same blood as he looks at himself in the mirror and runs through the forest.
-- There are also several scenes of violence that are mentioned or implied, but not shown: --
It is said that a teenager pulled a knife on somebody.
A character admits that one of the boys threatened to kill their parents; it is mentioned again later: "I could kill him, you know; just like that".
A small child says his father "beat him up with a board". It is handled lightly, as he's speaking to another small child.
A character admits to being abused, but explicitly states it was not violent.
A mother complains about her child always fighting.
We see bruising on a young teen, but do not see what caused it.
It is mentioned that somebody threw up.
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