For the uninitiated, The Purge films are based upon a compelling concept — the terrifying idea that, for one night every year, all crime (including murder and rape) is legal in the U.S. This fictional ...
The Purge (2013) serves as the first installment in this renowned franchise. It’s a dystopian horror movie that focuses on an annual event called The Purge, which allows citizens to commit any kind of ...
“The Purge,” 2013’s low-budget home invasion horror hit, found its breakout star in the Purge itself: an annual 12-hour bloodbath of government-sanctioned mayhem. In this dystopian near-future, the ...
"The First Purge," the fourth installment in the "Purge" series, hit theaters on July 4. The first film, "The Purge," hit the box office in 2013. The series follows an American dystopian society where ...
“The Purge,” 2013’s low-budget home invasion horror hit, found its breakout star in The Purge itself: an annual 12 hour bloodbath of government-sanctioned mayhem. In this dystopian near-future, the ...
It's been a decade since The Purge, the high-concept horror film from writer/director James DeMonaco that launched a franchise already spanning five films and counting and one two-season television ...
Well, we’ve already had two looks at the far-distance future at the multiplex so far this year. Both OBLIVION and AFTER EARTH show the “big blue marble” as a hostile, toxic terrain unable to support ...
From ‘The First Purge’ to ‘The Forever Purge’, here’s how to watch the entire franchise in chronological order The Purge premiered in 2013, showing a supposedly utopian America where crime rates have ...
Born in Palo Alto, Ramis grew up traveling around the world. He studied at an American school in Pakistan, but spent his summer and winter holidays visiting family members in San Francisco, London, ...
Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...
In this horror-thriller set in the year 2022, America has become a nation "reborn.” The economy is healthy and crime has become almost nonexistent due to a national event called the Annual Purge. For ...
The Purge: Election Year is a sheep in wolf’s clothing. Billed as a dystopian thriller, it is in fact a naively hopeful, flag-waving piece of pro-American agitprop. Like The Purge (2013) and The Purge ...