Production budget: $9,000,000 Worldwide gross: $110,602,999 Profit: 1,229% Horror has long been the natural starting point for directors hoping to make a big impression with limited funds; Sam Raimi, James Cameron, Oliver Stone, Peter Jackson and more all used the genre as a platform to establish their filmmaking credentials. Whats more, when it comes to healthy returns on investments, the horror genre is Hollywoods undisputed champ, managing to find a couple of spots on the most profitable lists year on year. Despite a relatively original, interesting premise, The Purge was hardly a critical darling on its release in June 2013. The action thriller-cum-horror, set in a near future where totalitarian rule has replaced democracy, presented the intriguing premise of an annual twelve-hour window during which anything goes and law and order takes a brief holiday. $89 million later, the inevitable sequel was announced. The Purge: Anarchy duly arrived in July, eclipsing the originals box office success to net $110 million against a slim $9 million production budget and rubberstamp the continuation of another horror franchise.
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