In a cultural moment when professors experience a debilitating hesitancy about initiating difficult conversations with undergraduate students, and the imperative of trigger warnings sometimes outweighs the will to navigate controversial materials, the fate of "violent films," as worthy of academic study, hangs precariously in the balance. Designing undergraduate film courses that are culturally and politically sensitive to the power structures replicated in cinematic representations, often entails, and understandably so, the excising of explicitly violent cinema. With this essay, however, the authors contend with ways in which cinematic violence can and, perhaps, should be incorporated into the undergraduate classroom. What follows is a detailed illustration of, perhaps even a discursive template for, how to lead a conversation about violent cinema, and an exploration of possible questions that help direct such a conversation. Although unpleasant, the authors believe the discussion to be more than worthwhile given its relevance to large scale conversations about cultural sensitivity and censorship, and innovative film education.