The Island Experiment

Description
A new group called the New Founding Fathers of America has been formed and they have decided to do a social experiment on Staten Island that was made by Architect Dr. May Updale. The experiment (AKA The Purge) involves legalized crime for 12 hours and making emergency services unavailable. While this experiment is happening, 20 year old Steve is using the experiment to have revenge, a couple of 3 years named Dmitri and Makayla try to stay home, and 2 sisters named Katie and Alyssa get stranded on the streets during the experiment. Will they survive? Will the experiment be successful? Or will it be a failure?

Plot
In 2016, A new political group called the New Founding Fathers (AKA The NFFA) has been uprising in popularity lately while the Chief of Staff of the group, Arlo Sabian, and Behavioral Scientist, Dr. May Updale has announced a new experiment of legalized crime for 12 hours that is going to take place on Staten Island. The NFFA offers 5,000 dollars to the people that stay on Staten Island during the experiment. They also outfit the participants with neon recording lenses that monitor the activity of the participant during the night of the experiment.

20 year old Steve has been planning on joining the experiment to take revenge on someone who raped and killed his sister, while two siblings named Katie and Alyssa, and a couple of 3 years, Dmitri and Makayla are all pretty frantic about the experiment. While experiment commences, the couple, Dmitri and Makayla stay home, Steve gets prepared to plan his revenge, and Katie and Alyssa get stranded on the streets due to a flat tire. A man named Skeletor then kills someone that is trying to rob an ATM, as this kill starts going viral since it’s the first one of the night. Dmitri and Makayla then notice a group of purgers breaking into their home, thus making them escape and making them roam the streets while Steve, Katie and Alyssa then start to form a small team since Katie and Alyssa hitchhiked Steve’s car and Katie and Steve recognized each other. Meanwhile, Arlo Sabian is getting frustrated that there are only minor crimes going on in the island like looting, vandalism, and loud parties.

As Dmitri and Makayla roam the streets, they get stopped by a couple of tourists that traveled to Staten Island in order to participate. However that gets stopped when Steve and Katie shoot fire against the tourists thus saving Dmitri and Makayla and adding them to the small group. As they get in the car, they then get stopped by a group of 2 people shooting fire at the car, but Steve then kills both of the people, but notices that they are possible mercenaries. The group of 5 now decide that they should go to the church that is about a mile away. But when they arrive they see a lot of dead bodies, as Steve, Dmitri, and Makayla investigate what happened, Katie and Alyssa then get held at gunpoint by an ex of Katie, who then threatens to shoot Alyssa if she interferes, thus having the ex kidnap Katie. As Steve, Dmitri and Makayla come back, they get the news about Katie’s kidnapping, which then leads to them going on a mission to rescue Katie.

As they are on their mission, they notice a convoy of members of the KKK. Meanwhile, Katie and her ex, now known as Taylor then argue as Katie pleads for her life, but as Taylor then tries to shoot  Steve then kills Taylor, and then the group quickly runs away from her home. They then decide to go to Katie and Alyssa’s house which is about two miles away from the park, so they then proceed to run to the house and successfully arrive.

Meanwhile at the NFFA Headquarters, Dr. Updale starts becoming suspicious about the rapid increase of violent behavior, she then starts to investigate what is going on by going into one of the private offices in the building, as she reviews video footage, she realizes to her horror that the people committing all these violent acts are mercenary groups trained to kill citizens. Sabian then explains that he sent those mercenaries in order to make the experiment look very successful and in order to make the experiment into an annual nationwide tradition to fix all the problems in the country. Knowing that his corruption has been exposed, Sabian has Updale taken away and murdered, and orders the footage of the event to be erased.

Steve then notices that Katie lives nearby the person that he was planning revenge on, as he tries to go there, Alyssa tries to stop him thus making her the second person to try to stop him, first one being his ex, Hailey. Steve refuses to listen to Alyssa and then proceeds to try to kill him, but the person now known as Alan tells him the whole truth on what happened, thus making him change his mind, quickly after that he notices a group of mercenaries then invading Katie’s neighborhood, thus making Steve now planning to save the neighborhood instead. As Katie, Alyssa, Dmitri and Makayla notice this, Katie and Alyssa then start to shoot fire against the invaders while Dmitri and Makayla hide. While Steve tries to kill a second group of mercenaries, he gets held at gunpoint by the leader of the group, Katie notices this, and then kills the leader, The sirens then sound, marking the end of the purge, and the group of 5 then somehow must fight back.

After the events of the experiment, Sabian reads a statement calling this experimental Purge a success, and that a nationwide Purge may begin as soon as the following year.

Deleted Scenes
There are about 8 scenes that did not make the final cut of The Island Experiment, these include: "No One's Coming To Help Us", "Be Careful Son", "Two Prostitutes", "Interference", "Different Route", "Fighting Back", "Anti-Purge Trio", and lastly, "Go Hide". Most of these deleted scenes are references of the 2018 film, The First Purge, and one of them is actually based on The Purge TV Series, where the two main characters are shown as kids. To see more information on the deleted scenes, go to this link.

Protagonists

 * Steve
 * Katie
 * Makayla
 * Dmitri
 * Alyssa

Antagonists

 * Arlo Sabian
 * Taylor
 * Dr. May Updale (Anti-Villain)
 * Skeletor
 * Mercenary Leader

The Purge OST's

 * Chance to Purge- From The First Purge
 * Rising Anger- From The First Purge
 * Sounding the Alarm- From The First Purge
 * Commencement- From The Purge Anarchy
 * Nowhere To Run- From The First Purge
 * Murder Tourists- From The Purge Election Year
 * Mask On- From The First Purge
 * Subway- From The Purge Anarchy
 * The Tunnel- From The Purge Election Year
 * Getting Personal- From The First Purge
 * The Reaper Cometh- From The First Purge
 * Island Experiment- From The First Purge
 * Sirens- From The Purge Election Year
 * The 14th Floor- From The First Purge
 * I'm Sorry- From The Purge Anarchy

Songs

 * Before I Forget By Slipknot
 * Sweater Weather By The Neighbourhood
 * Nemesis By Arch Enemy
 * Plug Walk By Rich The Kid (In A Deleted Scene)
 * Head Like A Hole By Nine Inch Nails
 * Through The Fire And Flames By Dragonforce
 * PDA By Interpol
 * WAP By Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion
 * Pumped Up Kicks By Foster The People
 * Panic Attack By Dream Theater (End Credits)

Trivia

 * This film is inspired by the 2018 film, "The First Purge".
 * The first 5 episodes of this film was originally made in 2018 and then PurgeAnimations abandoned the project, not until he started working on it again in February of 2021, where he made the rest and remade the 5 episiodes.
 * The main antagonist, Steve, was originally named "Rod".


 * The same thing happened with Makayla, one of the protagonists as she was originally named "Tiffany".


 * Dmitri's voice was supposed to be Simon, but due to PurgeAnimation's confusion with the voices Simon and Alan, Dmitri's voice was then changed to Alan.
 * Originally, the people that were breaking into Dmitri and Makayla's house were supposed to be mercenaries, but that event happened pretty early into the experiment and the whole mercenary thing started at around the halfway mark, so that idea was scrapped and replaced with Cole (Main Antagonist of The Vyond City Purge0 and a group of his break in instead.
 * There are many cameos of the main characters of "The First Purge" featured in the film