The Purge: Election Year (2016)
With themes that seem to tap into today’s headlines, The Purge: Election Year seems less like a sci-fi premise with a horror-movie sense of aesthetic, and more like a freaky fun-house mirror of our own society...
2010s / Action / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published July 10, 2016 · Last modified July 23, 2018
With themes that seem to tap into today’s headlines, The Purge: Election Year seems less like a sci-fi premise with a horror-movie sense of aesthetic, and more like a freaky fun-house mirror of our own society...
2010s / Action / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published June 8, 2013 · Last modified July 23, 2018
I wish there were a day every year that we, the audience, could just purge all of the memories of films like this. The premise: In the near future, the United States’ government has...
1970s / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published May 11, 2005 · Last modified July 6, 2021
John Carpenter began writing a number of script treatments just out of film school, some of which would be turned into movies. Prior to his breakthrough with Halloween, Eyes originally came to producer Jack...
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