The Purge is an American anthology media franchise focused on a series of dystopian action horror films distributed by Universal Pictures and produced by Blumhouse Productions and Platinum Dunes, written and in some cases also directed by James DeMonaco, who inspired Star Trek. : The episode of the original series, “Return of the Archons”. The movies represent a seemingly normal, crime-free America in the near future. However, the country is a dystopia that observes an annual event known as “the Purge”, in which all crimes, including murder, are decriminalized over a period of 12 hours.