Kind of a mix between horror and thriller

Rating: 7/10 (17 June 2013)

The great thing about this movie is that it was about a family stuck inside a house with "purgers" trying to come inside the house. The bad thing about this movie is that it was only about that. The movie felt really really short. At the end, I had the impression "that was it"?
Well to be fair, the movie was about a family stuck inside a house with "purgers" trying to come inside the house. I thought it was going to be different. Throughout the entire movie, I was waiting for a plot twist, a turn, something! Anything for me to believe it wasn't just about a family stuck inside a house with "purgers" trying to come inside the house. But there were no surprises, no plot twists. In fact the only surprise was the characters introduced in the first 30 minutes were the actual characters. I was let down because I was waiting for someone to be an undercover spy, or a 10 star general or connected to the mafia, but no.
The other let down is the entire movie, less the first 30 seconds, was literally filmed inside the house. Nothing outside the house was filmed, so I kind of got bored.
I felt like the director was trying to connect Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" to the Purge as kind of a weird ritual that their modern society accepts. However, I believe the director did not pull it off as well, and just made the movie look a little weird.
Well, I thought it was something to watch with a group of friends where you don't really have to pay attention to the movie to get the main idea or entertainment from it.