10 Movies Everyone Wished Were WAY Crazier

10. The Purge

2013's The Purge was sold on the strength of its irresistibly original logline: what would you do if all crime, including murder, was legal for 12 hours once per year?

It's an electrifying provocation, and one ripe for an epic, chaotic dystopian action film in the vein of classic John Carpenter.

Except, the original Purge was ultimately produced for just $3 million, ensuring the action was largely confined to a claustrophobic home invasion scenario instead.

The audience was given only scant glimpses of the mayhem unfolding in the outside world, as ensured that many felt The Purge failed to live up to the lofty expectations posed by its premise.

Teeing up such an expansive, exciting scenario and then limiting it to a single house just felt like a huge cop-out.

Thankfully the film's success at least ensured the bigger-budgeted sequels went much harder, chronicling the insane carnage spilling onto the city streets.

But watched today, the original movie seems hilariously quaint compared to what came after.