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As always - you all know the drill - I’ll be your spirit guide Jack Finch - as we hit
the panic button, arm ourselves to the teeth and hide inside an armoured house, as we take
a look at the 5 Scariest Purgers.
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I’m sure you’ve all seen the films by now, a franchise spanning four gore-filled
films based on a dystopian America - and also an upcoming television series.
And - while I’m not the biggest fan of the franchise based on its cinematic merit - there’s
no denying that the premise of the Purge is absolutely terrifying and pure nightmare fuel.
Because it is.
A United States where for 12 hours each year all crime - including murder, theft and arson
- is completely and utterly legal.
And we’re gonna take a look at the psychopathic killers that make up its very fabric.
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Kicking off at Number 5 - Skeletor.
No - not the fantastically camp villain of He-Man, Masters Of The Universe, but the psychopathic
killer that stalks the screen during The First Purge, which is confusingly the fourth film
in the franchise and the grand prequel to how the whole insane death-fest came to be.
He makes this list, over a bunch of others, purely for his insatiable urge to participate
in the first ever purge.
The film itself begins with Skeletor’s voice detailing on camera his dark thoughts and
his desire to purge the population of Staten Island - and the rest of the world - unleashing
his unbridled hatred on other people.
Throughout the film he stalks his victims with a twisted arsenal of makeshift weaponry
- a hand full of needles and a myriad of blades.
He commits the first ever murder during the Purge, and the NFFA - we’ll get to them
later - records it as viral propaganda.
No thanks.
Next up at Number 4 - The Polite Leader.
The first film - this time titled just The Purge - features The Sandin’s, an upper-middle
class family who live in an affluent Los Angeles gated community.
Although they support the Purge, and the political line laid out by The New Founding Fathers
of America - they decide not to participate, and instead wait the whole thing out behind
their state of the art home security system.
This is horror 101 though - and it doesn’t take long before that whole facade quickly
comes crashing down.
Introduce The Polite Leader - a psychopathic pearly white practioner of The Purge, presumably
an Ivy league protege and possibly a potential politician.
Well - if he didn’t die, that is.
This guy haunts the Sandin’s for the most part of the film, all while keeping a level
head as murder reigns around him.
He’s devoid of empathy and emotion, and even kills his own friend without skipping
a beat.
He’s what my nightmares are made of.
Again, no thanks.
Coming in next at Number 3 - Big Daddy.
This guy is not a nice man.
During the actions of the second film, The Purge: Anarchy, Big Daddy is a New Founding
Father loyalist hellbent on coordinating SWAT-Team targeted attacks on low-income neighbourhoods
on Purge night - believing it as his patriotic duty to cleanse citizens of the country based
on how much they earn for a living.
Ironic, right?
Throughout the film, he wears a perverse bloodied apron - and a stars and stripes ball-cap,
making him resemble more of a Big Game hunter than someone demonstrating their 28th Amendment
right.
He rides around Los Angeles with a minigun mounted on a truck, and a team of armoured
mercenaries - and generally is a vile representation as to where political zealotry can get you.
Fittingly, his head gets blown off with a shotgun.
Go figure.
Swinging in at Number 2 - The Auctioneers.
Yeah - admittedly, there’s not a lot of screen time for these guys - only making an
incredibly brief appearance in The Purge: Anarchy - but it was enough to give me the
creeps and stick them at second place for this list.
I don’t know whether it’s just the general disregard for the value of human life, or
the fact that there’s a bunch of people willing to pay for - what is essentially murder
- but, I don’t know - this one just freaks me out.
Toward the final act of The Purge: Anarchy, our group of protagonists are captured by
a group of masked purgers and taken to a theater filled with upper-class Purgers - who then
bid on them to be hunted for their twisted pleasure.
I don’t if it’s the fact they wear pearls and bowties to a mass-murder event - or their
dead, cold, twisted smiles, but these wealthy weirdos are a bunch that I wouldn’t like
to meet.
And finally, at our Number 1 spot - The New Founding Fathers.
Talking of wealthy weirdos - this bunch of dystopian despots pretty much take the cake.
Throughout the films dystopian alternate-reality, The New Founding Fathers of America, or NFFA
for short - are a political party, controlled by Caleb Warrens, who took control of the
U.S government and established a perverse new regime after a complete economic collapse
and rising social conflict.
They used the Purge as a political ploy to effectively cull the majority of the population
in a violent attempt to improve the economic standards of the already wealthy.
They established the Purge as an attempted means of catharsis for the American people
- but ultimately was their own undoing - perpetuated by a bunch of psychopathic killers.
There’s nothing scarier than a suited-up politician behind a totalitarian organisation
that promises liberation at the expense of its citizens.
For me, this is the biggest one.
No thanks.
Well - I don’t know guys, I definitely missed a few - but let me know who you’d deem the
scariest purger in the comment box down below.
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