This morning's screening finished a few minutes ago, and we've already heard from Charlotte Higgins that it's "hugely violent" and that there were "walkouts during torture scenes".
This week, its resurrection continues with this hugely violent parody of the show featuring the cast of Final Destination 5.
English people may have forgotten that they were once anarchic enough to chop a king's head off and have turned protesting into a fete for the mentally ill, but in Germany May Day is still a hugely violent festival of fear.
Indian growth has undermined the argument for accession to Pakistan in Kashmir – though much rhetorical support for independence remains – and sapped enthusiasm for any return to a hugely disruptive violent struggle.
The Bush administration, by contrast, has grouped together a hugely diverse band of violent actors as terrorists, failing to employ divide-and-conquer tactics.
One political reality is that he is a hugely divisive figure witness the violent riots in 2010 in Bangkok pitting Mr Thaksin's "red shirt" supporters (many drawn from the rural hinterland) against their "yellow shirt" opponents (royalist fans of the armed forces).
That, combined with a decline in the use of crack cocaine, an increase in imprisonments and tough policing strategies, helped push violent crime "down hugely," he said.
Ceasefire, as Kennedy's program is sometimes known, begins with the fact, commonly recognized by criminologists, that a small number of hardened criminals commit a hugely disproportionate number of serious violent crimes.
In the wake of that documentary, and that of "Beyond Scared Straight," which launched in 2011, on A&E, deterrence programs based on fear tactics in privately owned boot camps, ranches, and boardings schools — all of which promoted the idea that punishment, rather than therapy and communication-based intervention, could reroute potentially violent behavior — became hugely popular.
The truth is that it's a dangerous, violent, hope-filled and potentially hugely positive or explosive mess — fraught with moral and political ambiguities.
And that's aside from the quality of the research itself – violent video games research is a hugely contentious area, one that we've covered numerous times before.
