The Purge movies’ whole concept is that for one night in America all crime is legal. You can do whatever you want and in the morning everyone goes back to being normal. Because they’re horror movies, this mostly falls into the idea of murder.

I know already that’s a flawed concept in general. But let’s pretend that this thing could happen. Why does that version of America even function?

The minute the Purge night starts, you know that businesses would be pulling the most heinous insider trading scams they could. They would be dumping pollution into every single park, lake or ocean that they could find. Presidents could declare war without congressional approval! They could bomb whoever they wanted! It would be insane.

Even further than that, you could have kids drinking all kinds of alcohol and doing all kinds of drugs. Doing illegal street races throughout their towns.

I think they ought to make a story where all those things happen. I know they won’t because Hollywood is in the pocket of big businesses and is now using eco terrorists as the bad guys in a lot of action movies to make the climate change movement look bad.

In general, there are just so many more interesting stories you could tell. To that end, I don’t think that they should be straightforward horror movies anymore and instead become anthologies. Give different creators with different viewpoints a chance to tell a story in that world that they think is realistic. It could be really interesting.