2013 · sci-fi · horror · thriller
The Purge
Directed by James DeMonaco1h 25m2013
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
Our read: The Purge (2013) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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Skip it tonight — Home invasion dread with kids in peril will spike your anxiety.
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