How to WatchThe PurgeMovies and TV Series in Order — and What to Expect From the NextPurgeFilm in the Works

Mar. 15, 2025

A scene from ‘The Forever Purge’ starring Josh Lucas.Photo:Jake Giles Netter/Universal/The Hollywood Archive/Shutterstock

Jake Giles Netter/Universal/The Hollywood Archive/Shutterstock

In 2023, the franchise’s creator James DeMonacotoldVarietyhow he got the idea forThe Purge. “I had this little, strange, dark indictment of American gun culture,” he told the publication. “I hate guns. To me, the scariest thing in the world would be a night where everyone was armed and it was legal to use these firearms. To me, there was nothing scarier than that notion.”

Racism, bigotry and class struggles are also important concepts in the franchise, and as the series continued, those messages were amplified more and more, turningThe Purgeinto one of the most subversive and eye-opening horror franchises in modern history.

How to WatchThe PurgeFranchise in Chronological Order

The First Purge

‘The First Purge’ starring Lex Scott Davis and Joivan Wade.Annette Brown /Universal/ Everett

The Purge

The Purge: Anarchy

Set in 2023, one year after the original movie,The Purge: Anarchytook things out of the confined environment of a house and brought audiences into the streets of Los Angeles during purge night. The movie follows different groups of people, whose stories all end up converging, as they fight for survival around the city.

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Season 2 picks up some years later, just after Purge Night 2037. During the season, society struggles to process the events of the night and the lasting impacts it has on them throughout the rest of the year. So far, season 2 is the onlyPurgeentry that is set outside of Purge Night.

The Purge: Election Year

‘The Purge: Election Year’ starring Elizabeth Mitchell.Photo 12/Alamy

Photo 12/Alamy

Election Yearwas released in 2016, capitalizing on the growing anxiety in America leading up to the real 2016 election. Set in 2040, the movie sees Sen. Charlie Roan running for president. But Roan is no ordinary candidate. During a purge when she was a child, she had to watch her parents get brutally murdered and is forced to live with that trauma. For her campaign, she’s running on an anti-purge platform, vowing to end the vile tradition if she’s elected.

But the NFFA wants to ensure that can’t happen. Knowing that their supporters love purging and want Roan dead before the election, the corrupt party allows civilians to kill politicians during that year’s purge, hoping Roan will die before election night.

The Forever Purge

‘The Forever Purge’ starring Josh Lucas.Forever Purge trailer/YouTube

Forever Purge trailer/YouTube

Set in 2048,The Forever Purgetook the franchise to its most politicized state yet. Its themes of bigotry and corruption were brought front and center, andThe Forever Purgeshows what happened to America afterElection Year. After Roan’s term as president, the NFFA was elected back into power and reinstated the purge. But their supporters are angrier and more violent than ever, and they’ve decided the purge is now never-ending.

Will There Be MorePurgeFilms?

‘The Purge: Anarchy’ starring LaKeith Stanfield.Universal/Blumhouse Prods/Platinum Dunes/Kobal/Shutterstock

Universal/Blumhouse Prods/Platinum Dunes/Kobal/Shutterstock

In 2023,Varietyreported that DeMonaco had completed a script for a sixth movie, and the filmmaker gave the publication a brief glimpse of what it might look like. “InThe Forever Purge, America kind of collapsed,” DeMonaco said, “and it’s really kind of mapped itself according to different ideologies. The states are based on sexuality, religion, and ideology. So we’ve broken apart and the state of discord is at its worst. We enterThe Purgein that world.”

The PurgestarFrank Grilloalso confirmed that a sixth film is in the works during a 2024interview withScreenRant. “The script is done and it basically centers around Leo Barnes, my character,” the actor said during a red carpet interview. He also said the team is waiting to see how much funding the studio will invest in the movie before filming begins. “It’s a matter of how big they want the movie to be, how much money they want to spend on the movie, considering they’ve done a lot in this franchise.”

source: people.com