where this movie really failed is that it took its controversial storyline and did nothing with it, didnt dig deeper into it
also,enough with the "scary people breaking into your house" theme. there was a trailer for another movie, before the Purge, that was the exact same idea. my beef is why do horror movies all have to be the same? cant they do some real life shit, like the Zodiac, but not make it about the investigation? make it about the guy terrorizing people out in the woods or on a dark road or some shit?? its really not that difficult.
the only good news i've read lately is that James Franco just wrapped up filming an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's (The Road, No Country for Old Men, All the Pretty Horses) book Child of God which should be scary, and at the very least creepy.
the plot description from IMDB- "A violent-prone loner moves to the mountains of Tennessee and lives in a cave. "