James DeMonaco's The Purge movies are peculiarly interesting horror series. The scenarios, dialogue and characters provide a poignant political commentary, and The Purge: Election Year looks to be no different. With 2016 being an election year, the trailer hits closer to home than you might expect.
The Purge series, written and directed by James DeMonaco, is an social science fiction horror series set in the near future where for a 12 hour period, one night per year, all crime, including murder, rape, etc., is legal. The story of The Purge: Election Year is that a US Senator, who lost her family to a Purge Night fifteen years earlier, is running for President on a platform which calls for the elimination of the Purge. Naturally, considering the previous movies have established the reason for the Purge is population control, this makes Charlie Roan (played by Elizabeth Mitchel) powerful enemies.
Fortunately for her, she's got Frank Grillo (from The Purge: Anarchy) watching her back. Well, other than the fact he seems to be the only competent security operator on her team. Thus, they must face and survive the horrors of the Purge together.
So what's so special about this particular movie?
It hits close to home. Very close. As one writer phrased it, "this nakedly political series is now actually coming out during an election year in which it seems as though American politics has caught up to its premise. The Purge no longer feels as far-fetched or ludicrous as it did a few years ago."
That's a scary thought, and precisely why James DeMonaco's The Purge: Election Year could do extremely well. The series clearly has a lot of thought put into it; it isn't just a quick cash-grab horror flick. This movie will likely resonate with movie goers and will almost definitely do well in theaters when it releases July 1, 2016. Forbes describes the series as "the kind of franchise studios only dream of. It can basically go on forever with millions of potential stories, in film, television, comic books, novels, plays, and the like."
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