The Case for Remaking The Purge

The Purge is the home-under-siege horror story set in a not-too-distant America that has declared that, one night out of the year, all crime is legal and all emergency/peacekeeping service is suspended. The surface justification is that this yearly event allows people to "purge" their violent tendencies, thus allowing for a more harmonious and smooth social cohesion for the rest of the year. But, another stated reason is that the yearly event eliminates "unproductive" members of the society.

As a premise, this yields a lot of potential, more than just one home-under-siege horror story, though that should certainly be included.
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