The Purge Trailer

During a time when the American Dream is available to everyone in a euphoric world where unemployment is at 1% and crime rates are the lowest they've ever been in the US, families everywhere are arming their homes to protect themselves against the impending mayhem. Why? Because the countdown has begun to the one night of the year when their peace ends, when every crime is legal from burglary to murder. It's called The Purge; an official 12-hour annual period that allows a release for the  population and keeps people out of prison as all emergency services are suspended. When one family board up their home and pray that they will be safe once more, things take a nasty turn when the son opens the doors to a frightened stranger and invites him to take refuge. The house is soon approached by a group of weapon wielding killers who offer them a chance of safety if they give up the stranger to them. The family soon find themselves challenging their own moral code as their true selves are revealed during their night of terror.

This gritty thriller is the story of just how a utopia can become the opposite in just a few short hours. It has been directed and written by James DeMonaco ('Jack', 'The Negotiator', 'Assault on Precinct 13') and produced ,by Jason Blum ('Paranormal Activity', 'Insidious', 'Sinister') and is due to hit the US on May 31st 2013.