Wow, am I out of the loop. I had only seen the first one, The Purge (2013), and now I’ve just watched the prequel, The First Purge (2018), but I did not realize how much of a horror franchise it had become: The Purge (2013) The Purge: Anarchy (2014) The Purge: Election Year (2016) The …
31 days. 31 years. 5 movies per year! That’s the challenge a good friend presented me with recently, and I NEVER back down from a challenge! (well, nearly never!) Every day through October I will be pondering and revealing my 5 favorite horror and monster movies from 1985 right up to 2016. When I was …
I Had to share this picture I grabbed a couple of days ago during a supermarket visit with the kids. A few minutes after we arrived my daughter ran over to me as I was wearily trying to decide which carrots to buy and started prodding my hand repeatedly and shouting “Can I have this …
It was hard not to be a little bit disappointed with The Purge, which took a brilliant and totally evocative concept and turned it into a fairly generic home invasion movie. I enjoyed it, don’t get me wrong, I just expected so much MORE from a movie about all crime – including murder – being …
Looking back, it seems that The Purge was almost destined to be a disappointment to horror fans, who surely went into it under the somewhat false pretense that absolutely all hell was going to break loose, and that dozens of bodies would be hitting the floor. The reason for this is of course the futuristic …
