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The Forever Purge
Film
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The First Purge
Directed by Gerard McMurray
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the others, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation. From TMDB
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The First Purge is a 2018 action horror thriller film, directed by Gerard McMurray, starring Y'lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis and Joivan Wade.
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60 of 87 · most liked firstThe First Purge is an Actually Great Film
positive · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #311 "The First Purge" (Gerard McMurray/2018) This entry is mostly action but a little bit of horror/exploitation thrown in there for good measure. One thing's for sure, it's my favorite of the franchise!
positive · AI labelView post →no no i mean the movie CALLED 'The First Purge' rips. the first purge movie is ass
positive · AI labelView post →if we're comparing to One Night Only, i'd say that film has more lore than the first The Purge, but less lore than The First Purge
neutral · AI labelView post →The Purge...begins! We're kicking off our watch of the full series with the first movie (not The First Purge) from 2013!
neutral · AI labelView post →On our new episode, we're taking on The First Purge (the fourth movie) and wondering if this experiment was a success!
neutral · AI labelView post →the guy who made The First Purge. Not the first Purge movie, the fourth Purge movie, but it’s called The First Purge.
neutral · AI labelView post →I promise somebody in that White House caught The First Purge on HBO or something and came to Trump like IDEA. Bc what he's doing in DC is almost bar for bar the plot of that movie. Getting America to accept widespread violence by testing it on urban Black neighborhoods first.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The First Purge and while this movie is about as subtle as sledgehammer they did just a montage of kkklansmen morphing into cops so
neutral · AI labelView post →I think the first purge was among the most obvious, but even from the first movie I noticed them laying the foundation for the entire franchise. LOVED The First Purge. might be my favorite and I see why now lol
positive · AI labelView post →Now watching the fourth Purge movie, The First Purge (2018). New director for this one, but it's still written by the original guy. #Filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →#31DaysofHorror Day 12 - The First Purge (2018). The fourth Purge movie explores the origins of the annual night of legalised crime in a brash, fairly visceral action-horror. It’s not subtle, but feels more depressingly relevant with each passing year. #Horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Martyrs (2008) Threads (1983) Fire Walk With Me (1992) The First Purge (2018) Testament (1983) The Terminator (1984) Steven Universe: The Movie (2019) The Barbie Movie (2023)
neutral · AI labelView post →Trump is busy running his family business, the Fox crew is running the departments badly. Masked men are abducting and trafficking people. Trumps playing his own board game and now wants to imprison Americans that are poor and live on the streets! Watch the movie “The First Purge” enlightening.
neutral · AI labelView post →Bring the newest episode of Horror Movie Survival Guide all about The First Purge along with you on your weekend adventures! 😊
neutral · AI labelView post →most people are surprised when I say The Purge movies have more hits then misses and THE FIRST PURGE is a legit trenchant 70s-style political pulp horror movie
positive · AI labelView post →i will say, despite my joke, The First Purge actually rules. they basically made a BLM movie, and it's really sick.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching the First Purge movie and realizing people would do this for way less than 5k now.
neutral · AI labelView post →The First Purge has the writing, acting, and script of an asylum film
negative · AI labelView post →The Purge series seems eerily timely, (which is a terrifying sentence!) and The First Purge was a first time watch for me - how did you feel about this prequel? Would love to hear your thoughts! #film #movie #cinema #thepurge #thefirstpurge
neutral · AI labelView post →Finishing up the last Purge movie, "The Forever Purge", and it's only second worst in the series. The worst, of course, is "The First Purge" where they tried to make Escape From New York from a resident's view... badly.
negative · AI labelView post →It’s also so close to the spirit of a subplot in The First Purge! Not a *great* movie, but i think it does well to explain why we dont see a lot of that kind of crime in the other Purge movies.
neutral · AI labelView post →Films I watched recently! Reviews below! #filmsky R.I.P.D. (2013) 🪦👮 [Watched with @trans-foxgirl.bsky.social and J] THE FIRST PURGE (2018) 👿 [Watched with L] FELIX GRABS HIS GRUB (1924) 🐈⬛🍗 [Short film] DUCK DUCK (2019) 🐼🪩 [Short film]
neutral · AI labelView post →The Purge: Anarchy and The First Purge (which is annoyingly the fourth movie) are probably the best as standalone movies but the broader DeMonaco project is a kind of gesamtkunstwerk
positive · AI labelView post →Finished this a few days ago and I'm writing up my thoughts now. It didn't quite work for me. What did you think of The First Purge? #Movies #FilmSky #TheFirstPurge #ThePurge
negative · AI labelView post →Day 26 of #31DaysofHorror our second movie today is The First Purge.
neutral · AI labelView post →this is one case where the sequels are way better than the original, especially The First Purge (the, uh... fourth movie)
positive · AI labelView post →I like most of them. The First Purge is an action movie with an intellectually challenged script, but it's really fun.
neutral · AI labelView post →The fourth movie in the Purge series is called The First Purge, not to be confused with The Purge, which is the first Purge movie but not The First Purge.
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's WHITE MEAT movie recommendation is THE FIRST PURGE aka the Blackest purge. www.imdb.com/title/tt6133... #BlackSky #FilmSky #HorrorSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Today in Black Directors' Month, we're talking about easily the most coherent Purge movie, Gerrard McMurray's "The First Purge". If you haven't seen this one, check it out and our episode about it! shows.acast.com/progressivel...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm watching The First Purge and this movie really is bad
negative · AI labelView post →— ‘THE FIRST PURGE’ (2018) the best film in the series, in my opinion. had no idea what to expect with this one, & i came out absolutely adoring it. great characters, wild story & gore. it’s just such a good prequel & entry for this franchise
positive · AI labelView post →NYC (and ASAP!) friends: next Saturday, Oct 19, I’m joining @thebaffler.com for a screening of THE FIRST PURGE and a Q&A about Staten Island and my recent essay at BAM. Would love to see you there! Tickets here: www.bam.org/film/2024/ba...
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh there’s the first Purge movie (The Purge) & the fourth movie called The First Purge so it gets a little confusing. (I’m talking about the second one)
neutral · AI labelView post →Hat trick is The First Purge I got a soft spot for the series.... just not the first or most recent film
neutral · AI labelView post →We talked about the first Purge movie (not to be confused with the movie The First Purge) on the latest episode of 1-Shriek Rental, trying to parse its political message and situate it in the early 2010s. Fun podcast! Check it out now on YouTube or wherever: youtu.be/UbMWku0pdAc #horrorpodcast
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie of the night: The First Purge (2018). I want to rewatch the series at some point.
neutral · AI labelView post →I appreciate a lot of what that movie did but you can tell by the ending that a white person made it because the not-Hillary lady won in a landslide The First Purge on the other hand, is timeless and it bums me out that we didn’t get to see him in The Spook Who Sat By The Door
positive · AI labelView post →It reminds me of "The First Purge" (movie), where the gangs weren't violent enough so they sent in the military goons.
neutral · AI labelView post →FINALLY, #FILM51 IS 'THE FIRST PURGE', A MOVIE THAT WAS INSPIRED BY A TRIP TO CULVERS FOR TRUE AMERICAN FOOD. BLESSED BE AMERICA, A NATION REBORN... WITH A PREQUEL! AND SOME OF THE NEW JALEPENO CHEESE CURDS. #61FILMSOFHALLOWEEN
positive · AI labelView post →#50 'The First Purge' (2018)- This movie felt a liiiittle too real in todays political climate, but I powered through it in an effort to get through this franchise. I thought this was well done and a lot of fun, albiet still feeling a little TOO much like reality at the moment. #Watchoween
positive · AI labelView post →Really interesting feeling reading this the same day you re-watched the movie “The First Purge.”
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 The Top 4 Thriller Movies Released on July 4! What's your fave? 1. Kill 2. Courage Under Fire 3. Frightmare 4. The First Purge Check out all 31 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Thriller
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 The Top 4 Horror Movies Released on July 4! What's your fave? 1. Re-Elected 2. Tales of Terror 3. Frightmare 4. The First Purge Check out all 31 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Horror
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 The Top 4 Action Movies Released on July 4! What's your fave? 1. Sound of Freedom 2. Kill 3. The Story of Dr. Wassell 4. The First Purge Check out all 31 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Action
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched The First Purge movie last night. That's what the Orange Pustule aka Taco Man & the gun nuts/christian fascists want for this country. #AuditIncelNAZIElmo #DefundIncelNAZIElmo #DeportIncelNAZIElmo #JailtheOrangePustuleinCECOT #$ubprimeCourtReformsNOW
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, I agree! I try very hard to like Election, but some of the acting in that film makes it a very difficult watch. The First Purge, I think was the best after Anarchy. The Forever Purge I'm still on the fence about.
positive · AI labelView post →This week's episode covers The First Purge! Tell us your thoughts on this film and this series, film fans! #thefirstpurge #movie #film #cinema www.buzzsprout.com/104713/episo...
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember seeing Purge 4: The First Purge in the theater after everyone in the movie just started killing each other and people came out safe (some).... but the one thing that I left from the theater was the song "Let It Whip" by Dazz Band... that song just great to listen to.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching the First Purge. There was a time I would have dismissed this as being too far fetched a concept but Trump is going to be President again and this seems more possible than ever.
neutral · AI labelView post →The First Purge Any Jordan Peele Film They Cloned Tyrone Missing Night of the Living Dead(?)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Purge 5-Movie Collection is available today on (iTunes) for $24.99 Films include: The Purge, The Purge: Anarchy, The Purge: Election Year, The First Purge, The Forever Purge, Cast: Edwin Hodge, Frank Grillo, Ana de la Reguera, Y'lan Noel, Ethan Hawke, Tenoch Huerta
neutral · AI labelView post →Wicked: For Good joins Bad Boys For Life, The First Purge, A Good Day to Die Hard and Fate of the Furious in the halls of stupid movie titles.
negative · AI labelView post →The FIRST PURGE totally rules! I didn’t think about SPM’21, but I haven’t seen past the first Wrong Turn movie
positive · AI labelView post →Reminds me of the movie I watched yesterday….The First Purge
neutral · AI labelView post →I think there’s a real need for what would be pretentiously describe as low brow progressive populism in film and tv, and the movies are very much that. The only one I think is just straight up bad is The First Purge. The rest are fun action/horror films.
negative · AI labelView post →The First Purge was really well done. I liked the TV series too 😕 First movie was ish and I hated the second.
positive · AI labelView post →The movies are surprisingly good and consistent although The First Purge (not the first movie) kinda retroactively makes the other ones look weaker
neutral · AI labelView post →Is it just me, but does #TheFirstPurge seem like it could become the next Get Out in that it's a seemingly unassuming film that comes out of nowhere with a big, impactful, resonant racial and social message? http://bit.ly/2HcDSQK
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