Nobody expected that ‘The Purge: Night of the Beasts’ would become the beginning of one of the most extensive horror sagas of the 21st century. We’ve already seen five movies in this franchise and a sixth is on the way, so it’s never a bad time to get into it. To make it easier for you, below you will find a useful guide if you are not sure where to start, and also where you can watch them in streaming.
The logical thing in these cases is to limit yourself to following the order in which the films are released, but things get complicated when the franchise definitively becomes a Marvel-style universe. Therefore, we are going to start by reviewing the order chronological within the story posed by this terrifying alternative universe created by James De Monaco:
the chronological order
- ‘The first purge: The night of the beasts’ takes place in 2016 | You can see it on Movistar+
- ‘The Purge: Night of the Beasts’ takes place in 2022 | You can see it on Amazon Prime Video and on SkyShowtime
- ‘Anarchy: Night of the Beasts’ takes place in 2023 | You can see it on Amazon Prime Video, on SkyShowtime and on Movistar+
- ‘Election: Night of the Beasts’ takes place in 2040 | You can see it on Amazon Prime Video and on SkyShowtime
- ‘The infinite purge’ takes place in 2049 | You can watch it on Amazon Prime Video
For now it is unknown where the sixth installment fitswhich promises to explore the idea of a global purge.
The order of release
Next you have the order in which the five films in the saga were arriving in theaters:
- ‘The Purge: Night of the Beasts’, released in 2013
- ‘Anarchy: Night of the Beasts’, released in 2014
- ‘Election: Night of the Beasts’, released in 2016
- ‘The first purge: The night of the beasts’, released in 2018
- ‘The infinite purge’, released in 2021
And where does the TV series fit in?
The ‘Night of the Beasts’ Franchise made the leap to the small screen in 2018 with a series that lasted two seasons. Its release on Syfy occurred a couple of months after the arrival in theaters of ‘The First Purge: Night of the Beasts’, so in the order of release it would occupy fifth place and ‘The Infinite Purge’ would go like this to the sixth. In addition, the chronological order including the series would be as follows:
- ‘The First Purge: The Night of the Beasts’
- ‘The Purge: Night of the Beasts’
- ‘Anarchy: Night of the Beasts’
- TV series ‘The Purge’, season 1 takes place in 2027 and season 2 in 2036 | You can watch it on Amazon Prime Video
- ‘Election: Night of the Beasts’
- ‘The infinite purge’
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