The Purge 10 Year Retrospective Covering movies 1-5, and season 1, 2 What you might be getting wrong about The Purge movie franchise, and my analysis throughout the series. Consider this my 'Halloween' contribution for this year. Put on your favorite iconic purge mask, and make sure your defensive instruments are within reach, and sit down next to your security camera setup, and countdown the sirens with me. Brrrrowrrrrrrrrrrr! Bwrrrrooowrrrrrrrrrrr! Bwrrrorwrrrrrrrrrrrr! Thumbnail from Craiyon, lady liberty getting ready for purge night. Purge movie posters, tv show posters, siren and warning notice copywrite of their respective owners. The Purge (2013) The Purge: Anarchy (2014) The Purge: Election Year (2016) The First Purge (2018) The Forever Purge (2021) Untitled 6th purge film, 'world purge' (tbd) Purge Season 1, 2 (2018-2019) Anecdotes I'll address if I do a part two. I could have talked about the religious aspects, and the mask aspects for probably a half-hour within themselves, but I didn't want to bloat the run time too much. Suffice it to say, several of the masks are a recurring theme, especially the 'God' masks, which end up being unironically mass marketed and pissing off the person who made the mask popular to begin with. It isn't clear who wore the first 'God' mask, because it depends on which order you watch them in, but they end up being an icon of 'off-purging' where basically people are killing on other days of the year. The mask's narrative prose changes hands many, many times so if it was meant as some kind of message, it goes on quite a journey all its own. Not only was the mask popularized in Anarchy, but then it's all through Season 2, changing hands, then mass marketed, and flipping on the person who popularized. Wild ride for a simple but poignant 'God' mask. Besides some of the culty stuff, this's essentially the only religious-based purge elements in the story. The rest of the religious elements are reserved for safe havens, although in Election Year it's implied there's a significant religious component to the founding fathers, but there isn't a ton of context other than they're holed up in an old cathedral doing their NFFA Purge ritual. And even they they make a comment that 'the original founding fathers had made a tunnel that allowed them to access the new founding fathers and take them out.' Which is an interesting point of reference. Nobody in particular makes money off the Purge, besides the mask vendors, weapons dealers, and security services, so there's no 'big bad corporation' either. So I think there's a lot of room for one final movie, for sure, if they want to blame capitalism, or blame the cabal, or who knows. Maybe we'll never know! But anything's possible.

We travel to the Philippines now on a hot tip to see what's going on with a haunted house! I'm sure it'll be TOTALLY FINE! So get some batteries in your flashlight and let's go. Ignore that big blood moon over the mansion, it's probably nothing.

Talk about the China lockdown bubble, long covid, paxlovid, monkeypox, Africa, Turkey, and Denmark all coming out with some good reporting.

Intro for my new series 'the first hour' where I play the first hour of horror games that are being true to themselves. This means no cut content, and no self-censorship. Enjoy our trip around the world as we sample games from all over! I bet there's at least one here you haven't seen before. Thanks!