5 Years Ago, the Best Apocalypse Saga of the Century Revealed Its Shocking Origin Story

The Purge’s portrayal of an America so consumed with anger that it transforms into a state-sanctioned apocalyptic hellscape has always been political. But as series creator James DeMonaco told Inverse in June, exactly 10 years after The Purge first debuted, “My mindset infected the films deeply as I grew angrier and angrier at the politics that were unfolding inside the country.”