Ethan Hawke’s had some good luck with horror, and “The Purge” has a hint of that. America, legalizing one day a year where there are no laws — and criminal impulses reign — a family barricaded against the mob, but some of that mob breaking in and terrorizing them.
“The Purge” looks iffy, but as parables go, it might work. It opens Friday.
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