Every ‘Purge’ movie ranked (including ‘The First Purge’)

Author: David Pan / Source: USA TODAY

This prequel in the social-horror franchise showcases the first night where all crime (including murder) is legal. USA TODAY

With guns, masks and machetes, this week the “Purge” franchise returns for another anything-goes killing spree.

The dystopian horror saga has shot through four installments with a can’t-lose premise: For 12 hours every year, the U.

S. government sanctions all crimes as legal to release pent up societal anger and violence.

“The First Purge” (opening July 4), offers up an origin story whole marking the latest in producer Jason Blum’s popular micro-budget franchise (a Hollywood offering that keeps critics howling louder than its doomed victims). Here’s our ranking of all four “Purge” films.

4: “The Purge: Election Year” (2016)

With a plot full of more holes than its onscreen gunshot victims, “Election Year” ranks as the worst of the bunch. The story follows Senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell), the sole survivor of a purge massacre that wiped out her whole family when she was a child. Now she’s running for president on a anti-Purge platform, a movement that benefits from wide populist support.

The public’s unexplained reversal on Purge nights is baffling concept, given that it goes against the franchise’s very foundation that society has devolved to the…

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