A Rundown of the 13 Best Horror Movies I've Seen in the Past Year
[4 of 13]
THE PURGE
(May 2013)
America. 2022.
Unemployment is at 1%.
Crime is at an all-time low.
Unemployment is at 1%.
Crime is at an all-time low.
Violence barely exists.
With one exception…
That
exception is The Annual Purge, a 12-hour orgy of chaos and destruction
sanctioned by the U.S Government, during which “… any and all crime, including
murder, [is] legal.”
The
thinking here is, if you can just keep all that rage and all those violent
tendencies bottled up inside yourself for 364 days, then you’ll have the Purge
in which to vent all of it without any legal repercussions whatsoever.
Hate
your boss? That bullying head cheerleader? Your wife who cheated on you with
your best friend? The barber who gave you that sadass haircut?
There’s
always the Purge…
Brought
to us by James DeMonaco (who co-wrote Skinwalkers,
of which I must admit, I was not a
fan), The Purge is a hard-hitting,
tense little exercise in cautionary horror that manages to give one pause to
consider the nature of violence and the costs of a “stable” form of governance.
99
out of every 100 people may have a job, but this is a world where doing the
right thing just makes you an idiot who brings down grief on the heads of those
you care about, as well as your own, a world where anyone killed during the
Purge is considered a “sacrifice to make [America] a safer place.”
Of
¡Qué horror! note: Rhys Wakefield, as the “Polite
Leader,” plays an even bigger douchebag here than he did in last year’s ¡Qué horror! title, +1.
Lena
Headey (familiar to ¡Qué horror!
territory due to The Brøken) is also
in this one, though sadly, she does not get to deploy any of her Many Bitch
Faces of Cersei Lannister here. And as we all know, she’s a bloody expert at those…
Ah,
well.
Can’t
win ‘em all…
“Blessed be the New
Founding Fathers for letting us Purge and cleanse our souls, Blessed be
America, a nation reborn.”
Parting
Shot: Reviews of The Brøken and +1 can be found lurking in the Archives.
(The Purge OS’ courtesy of impawards.com)
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