Official Synopsis Unveiled for The Purge
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While we didn’t think that this new horror flick would be a feature length version of the famed purging scene from the Stephen King classic Stand by Me, official word is finally here pertaining to what type of horrors we can be looking forward to.
The Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey thriller The Purge , which is written and directed by James DeMonaco, will open in theaters May 31, 2013. The film is being released by Universal from its deal with producer Jason Blum, who partners with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes. Blum, Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form are producing with Sébastien Kurt Lemercier.
Synopsis
If on one night every year you could commit any crime without facing consequences, what would you do? In The Purge, a speculative thriller that follows one family over the course of a single night, four people will be tested to see how far they will go to protect themselves when the vicious outside world breaks into their home. In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity—including murder—becomes legal. The police can’t be called. Hospitals suspend help. It’s one night when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking. When an intruder breaks into James Sandin’s (Ethan Hawke) gated community during the yearly lockdown, he begins a sequence of events that threatens to tear a family apart. Now, it is up to James, his wife, Mary (Lena Headey), and their kids to make it through the night without turning into the monsters from whom they hide.
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