James DeMonaco

James DeMonaco

1969-10-12 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA 15 Credits

Biography

American screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for creating the Purge franchise, writing all five films in the series and directing the first three, The Purge (2013), The Purge: Anarchy (2014), and The Purge: Election Year (2016).

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The Home

The Home

2025

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building ...

Crisis Negotiators

Crisis Negotiators

2024

Original Story

7.0
Writing

Negotiator expert Cheuk Man Wai unexpectedly becomes the prime suspect in a murder case. Forced into a corner, he occupies the police station, taking ...

This Is the Night

This Is the Night

2021

Screenplay, Director

5.6
Writing Directing

In the summer of 1982, as all of Staten Island anticipates the opening of a blockbuster boxing movie, an Italian-American family must confront its gre...

The Forever Purge

The Forever Purge

2021

Producer, Characters, Writer

6.9
Producing Writing

All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they c...

The Purge: Behind The Series

The Purge: Behind The Series

2018

as Self

2.0
Acting

In an altered United States, several unrelated people discover how far they will go to survive a night during which all crime is legal for 12 hours. A...

The First Purge

The First Purge

2018

Characters, Executive Producer, Writer

6.0
Producing Writing

To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggressio...

The Purge: Election Year

The Purge: Election Year

2016

Characters, Director, Writer

6.4
Directing Writing

Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Ro...

The Purge: Anarchy

The Purge: Anarchy

2014

Director, Writer, Characters

6.6
Directing Writing

One night per year, the government sanctions a 12-hour period in which citizens can commit any crime they wish -- including murder -- without fear of ...

The Purge

The Purge

2013

Writer, Director

6.3
Writing Directing

Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During on...

Staten Island

Staten Island

2009

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

Sully is desperate to give his unborn son the chance he never had. Jasper wants to escape the mobsters that have infiltrated his life and business. Pa...

Skinwalkers

Skinwalkers

2006

Screenplay

5.1
Writing

Creatures, bound by the blood of the wolf, that can kill with curses and move at lightening speed, watching the night sky for the rise of the blood-re...

Assault on Precinct 13

Assault on Precinct 13

2005

Screenplay, Co-Producer

6.2
Writing Producing

On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and crim...

Hate

2005

Writer

5.1
Writing

A look inside the Hate Crimes Unit of the NYPD

The Negotiator

The Negotiator

1998

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elabo...

Jack

Jack

1996

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

Jack Powell suffers from an affliction that makes him grow four times faster than normal, so the 10 year old boy looks like a 40 year old man. After y...