James DeMonaco

James DeMonaco is the writer and director of the feature films The Purge, The Purge: Anarchy, The Purge: Election Year and Staten Island, as well as co-founder of the Man in a Tree production company. He also wrote the films The Negotiator and Assault on Precinct 13. He created and executive produced The Purge TV series, as well as the cable television miniseries The Kill Point, which starred John Leguizamo. He recently co-wrote the novel Feral with Brian Evenson, which was published by Random House, and his children’s novel The Curious Chronicles of Jack Bokimble and His Peculiar Penumbra was published by Inkshares Inc. in 2017. The latest film he wrote and directed, This is the Night, starring Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale and Frank Grillo, is now available to stream. He lives in Staten Island with his wife and daughter. He is an avid New York Yankees fan.

Talks

Watching Movies in a Theater, as God Intended

By James DeMonaco | September 24, 2021

Watching Movies in a Theater, as God Intended

The Purge director James DeMonaco, whose new movie This is the Night is now streaming, on the sanctity of the collective cinematic experience.

Calvin Lee Reeder (The Rambler) Talks James DeMonaco’s The Purge: Anarchy

By Calvin Lee Reeder | July 18, 2014

Calvin Lee Reeder (The Rambler) Talks James DeMonaco’s The Purge: Anarchy

Maybe I don’t respect cinema enough, maybe I have a primitive mind or maybe I’m just a bad guy; but I love movie violence.