The Purge premiered in 2013, showing a supposedly utopian America where crime rates have fallen to their lowest in decades. The problem is that the country achieves these low crime rates through “the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The political commentary of the original Purge film is perhaps not quite as pointed as future installments would be, but it's ...

“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 ...

After three renditions of the Purge franchise, we are finally graced with how it all started in “The First Purge” — the day of horror in which there are no laws for a 12-hour period. “The Purge” (2013 ...

Good storylines are an essential part of any work of fiction, and they can kill a movie if they're not interesting. If a storyline doesn't sound good on the surface, very few people will even want to ...

Everybody loves a good old-fashioned grim dystopia, and, between this year’s two Richard Bachman adaptations and the “Hunger Games” film slated for release next November, Hollywood is spoiling us for ...

Racism, bigotry and class struggles are also important concepts in the franchise, and as the series continued, those messages were amplified more and more, turning The Purge into one of the most ...