The Purging Hour

Low budget filmmaking or not, surely you can find a better place to conduct your interviews.

The Diaz family moves from the city to a small mountain village. The story: They all disappear. Some VHS footage mysteriously turns up, and interviews with locals are added to form a faux-documentary. Town officials deny everything sinister going on there.

The problem with The Purging Hour (and it's a big one), is that the film never establishes the threat. Sure, conflicting theories are bandied about. Literally, the family experiences banging noises, rustling, and crashing inside the house, and they all freak. At one point, the father goes outside, and sees the silhouette of a man in the fog. One of the kids goes into the garage to retrieve medicine, and gets his throat cut. Someone/thing tampers with their car so they can't escape. The final seconds of footage they show (that had to be "enhanced"), suggest a (dead) woman from an urban legend is responsible. Jeez, pick a theme.

I am a big fan of found footage and faux-documentaries (when done effectively and believably). Also, foxy Latinas! While I'd consider this story a failure, the movie did have elements that intrigued me. So, 3 stars it is.

I mean like, it was shot in ONE DAY.. with pretty much NO MONEY.. and NO SCRIPT... and you can stream it on Amazon prime and it's in stores lol. Like WUT? If people liked blair witch idk why you wouldn't like this.

An hour into this movie and I still don't feel like it's progressed. Just a crappy video camera filming a family on their first day moving into a new house. Splice in some very strange mockumentary-esque interviews that pretty much say the same thing over and over. They keep say watch the video, what they mean to say is watch the end of the video. I watched this family grill burgers, walk around the house, bitch at one another, and take a walk outside. Waste of time, do not watch. Apparently I need to write ten lines so IMDb will post this. So I will continue to write just so no one unwittingly watches this turd. This is my first IMDb review and I had to write it because this movie was so bad. Also, if I knew someone had filmed my SO and I smoking weed outside, I would check said camera, erase the footage, and most likely turn off the camera/stop filming. Not walk with it filming the whole time, turn it over to my dad, (who's house I'm still living in because I'm 18), and then start an argument. If my daughter were anything like the daughter in this movie, she'd be getting her ass kicked on a daily basis just for the way she speaks to me. I'm not her dad and I wanted to beat her ass, ground her, and do anything within my power to raise a better child. This mom/dad duo suck as parents, as spouses, and as normal human beings. Hopefully I'm at ten lines now. Also, why do they not lock any doors? The dad even tells them to lock the doors, and they suspect someone has broken into their house, but, hey, maybe they won't know how to turn a doorknob. Too many issues with this turd of a movie. DO NOT WATCH

This movie inspired me to pursue my career in filmmaking

I love stocking up on horror movies at my local Dollar Tree throughout the year, then spending October watching as many of them as possible. From the 1st-4th I have watched nine DVD's. Two were okay and six were pretty bad, but nothing came close to the ridiculously horrible The Purging Hour. As other reviewers have mentioned, the first hour is a big bunch of nothing. Found footage of a family moving into a new house and arguing with each other does not make a good scary movie. Even when the action picks up a little in the last few minutes it isn't enough to save this disaster.