Research - The Purge

Settings- Large, middle class house, wealthy American neighbourhood. Set between the hours of 7pm and 7am.

Narratives - Annual Purge to allow crime for 12 hours, including murder. Set in the future in the year 2021, where the purge is believed to have saved the country in a 'New America'.


Characters- Family of four, made up of parents and their teenage daughter and misfit son. The daughter has a boyfriend who her dad does not approve of who sneaks in to their house.
Neighbours who start of as the stereotypical American friendly neighbours but then turn into the neighbours who hold a grudge towards the family and try to murder them out of jealousy.

The masked group - masked males and females with a main male leader who is psychotic and unmasked so his face is seen. They are educated and the males wear school uniform and the females wear long white dresses. They carry large weapons of swords, machetes, guns and axes.

The father of this family sells security systems therefore their house is well protected and they choose not to take part in the purge. However their son sees a man being chased and chooses to offer him shelter within the home. This leads to the house coming under siege from the mans assailants, which in turn leads to a mini war within the house. It ends with the father being shot and the family being saved by the neighbours, only for the neighbours to then reveal their true intentions to kill the family themselves. At this point there is a plot twist, with the man the son had let into the house coming from hiding to in turn save the family and allow for them to overturn the neighbours and sit through until the purge is over.
There is a subplot in which the daughters boyfriend sneaks into the house during the purge and tries to kill the father however he is unsuccessful.