While recurring figures played by the likes of Frank Grillo were present in the saga, the Purge movies generally opted to explore the franchise's dense universe through a rotating door of protagonists. They were so expansive that each new installment of this Purge franchise kept bringing in new lead characters. The possibilities of what could happen over a single night where all rules were gone were endless. Once it became clear that The Purge was a hit with legs, it wasn’t long before this single movie became a sprawling franchise encompassing multiple movies and even a TV show that ran for two seasons. So it is with The Purge, a microbudget 2013 film starring Ethan Hawke from Blumhouse Productions that had a killer (no pun intended) concept: what if for one night of the year, all crime (including murder) was legal? The notion, as well as all those creepy and increasingly elaborate masks worn by Purge participants, captured the imagination of moviegoers worldwide. Dating back to the days of the Universal Monsters, one successful scary film always deserves another in the eyes of studio executives. Any successful horror movie will never remain just one movie.
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