Watch: The Purging Hour 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – A home video was discovered on the dark web in connection to the death and disappearance of the Diaz Family. Now a film crew sets out to uncover the truth..
Plot: With the hopes of a new life for his family, Bruce Diaz left the harsh city for the serene and majestic mountains of California. The Diaz family’s first day in their new house would go down as one of the most violent 24 hours any family could ever imagine. With no serviceable evidence being retrieved and no witnesses to speak, the case was eventually dismissed. Several years later, the family’s personal home movie footage was released by anonymous source. “Home Video” tells the family’s story, through their eyes.
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Not worth $1
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.
Heinz 57
This poor movie just couldn’t figure out what it wanted to be when it grew up. If it had a motto, it would have been, “Why not both?”… before the writer/director, or whoever was in charge chucked it and said, “Why not all?”Is it a choppy, hand-held movie camera Blair Witch thing? Check. Family drama? Check. Psychological thriller? Check. Slasher film? Check. Supernatural thriller? Check. Documentary? Check.
A whole lot of checks, and not a lot of balance. They did throw in some humor for good measure, but probably only because the kitchen sink couldn’t fit.
That said, it’s a pity. The acting is actually very good, very natural, and believable. The interaction between the family members wasn’t contrived, and didn’t even seem scripted, really. Like someone just filmed a normal family moving into their new home and setting up for their first dinner. Well, if normal people insisted on filming the entire thing constantly, handing the camera off over and over between family members.
That’s one of the biggest flaws of the film — that the entire thing is made to look like it was filmed with a video camera or smartphone. And, the family members carry the video camera around with them, filming every little detail, which didn’t make much sense. For example, toward the end of the movie multiple family members have crisis situations (it is a horror story, eh?), which they happen to film, but when another family member stumbles upon them, they just pick the camera up and keep filming. It’s understandable that they wanted to avoid the worn-out excuse of “somebody has to film for their school project”, but without that it just makes no sense. Nobody is going to pick up a camera and keep documenting while their family member is in trouble. The only time the camera stayed still was during the “documentary” sections.
Speaking of which, the documentary sections were also well-acted, but didn’t add anything to the story. Nothing those interviewed say reveals anything pertinent about the people moving into the house, or even help the audience form an idea of what has occurred.
That, being the biggest flaw of the movie — there isn’t a story. The movie doesn’t tell you what happens, or even what might have happened. It doesn’t even seem like anything happened, because although everything has been documented on video up to that point, once the minimal horror/thriller part of the movie begins, nothing is really documented. There isn’t even a cohesive story line as to what happened. In the what, why, who, how, when, line of storytelling, all the movie answers is the who (might have gotten killed, but not who might have killed them) and when (after dinner).
Altogether disappointing. I really wish the producers/directors had chosen to film the movie normally, with perhaps little clips of the video camera interspersed. Oh, and it would have been nice if there was a plot and story line.
There’s barely any violence or gore in the movie — about a thousandth less than you’d see in a typical video game. There’s only blood in two scenes, for a few seconds. There’s also no real romantic backstory, and other than the bare, muscular arms of the dad, there is nary an inch of skin to be seen. So, if you were thinking that perhaps there’d be some sexy time to hold your interest, nope, none of that. It wouldn’t have helped.
It’s as if all the scenes that were supposed to have been filmed with the video camera were done first and they realized that nothing had happened. So they tossed in a few minutes of scare factor at the end to imply something happened, and then filmed some “documentary- style interviews” to splice in and provide possible motivations for the event/happening/crime that’s never explained or even verified as having happened.
If you’d like to see some very natural-looking, well-acted and natural scenes with a family dynamic, you’ll like parts of this film. If you like scary horror, psychological thriller, or suspense movies, you might want to pass this one up.
EDIT
I kind of feel bad about my rating, now that I know it had such a small budget. But, really… is it that much cheaper to have actors hold a camera? Couldn’t they have put it on a counter once in a while? Or bought a $100 used tripod?
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Runtime 1 hr 20 min (80 min)
Budget 10000
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Status Released
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Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery
Director Emmanuel Sandoval
Writer Zaidal Obagi, Emmanuel Sandoval, Robert A. Trezza
Actors Alana Chester, Paul Cross, Tomas Decurgez
Country United States
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