If The Purge Was Happening In Real Life? Twitter Responds With Survival Tips [VIDEO]

Imagine that for 12 hours all crime no matter how heinous it might be, was legal. That is the premise for the new movie "The Purge" starring Ethan Hawke and "Game of Thrones" actress Lena Headey.

Hawke and Headey are suburban parents, living in a futuristic world trying to keep their family alive in the psychological thriller "The Purge." Once "The Purge" begins, the Sandin family locks all their doors and windows in the hopes their house will be left alone. The police will not help and going to the hospital is out of the question.

Like the warning for a super storm, if you stay away from the windows and doors you should be able to survive "The Purge." So one might ask why would the Sandin family open the door for a perfect stranger on the deadliest night of the year?

What follows is a sequence of terrifying encounters with those who come looking for the stranger now hiding with the Sandin family.

"The Purge" opened at midnight on June 7 in theaters across the country. Opening night brought the horror flick a whopping $3.4 million beating out the Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn comedy "The Internship" which earned $800,000.

According to the Hollywood reporter, "The Purge" earned back the films entire budget on opening night. Hollywood reporter is speculating the film will gross another $20 million over the weekend.

When we go to movies it is fun to place ourselves in the characters' shoes, asking, "what would I do?" This is the question that has Twitter followers flocking to the social media site offering survival tips just in case "The Purge was happening in real life."

Twitter users came up with clever survival strategies to go along with the hashtag #ifthepurgewashappeninginreallife. Much like the tips to surviving a zombie apocalypse that swept the Internet awhile back, "The Purge" survival guides flowing around Twitter are extreme, goofy and what some might call just plain weird, causing you to ask "how would that help?"

Not everyone was impressed with "The Purge," Fox News says critics are calling the film an obvious attack on the Tea Party and the NRA.

"While the plot may seem on its surface like any of hundreds of other futuristic hellscape directorial visions from "Clockwork Orange" to "Oblivion. "'The Purge' has been dubbed by some a thinly veiled attack on the Tea Party and National Rifle Association and has some critics rolling their eyes," writes Holly McKay of Fox News.

McKay quotes Dan Gainor, the VP of Business and Culture Media Research Institute as saying,

"Director James DeMonaco makes it clear the movie is a direct attack on the NRA, an organization filled with millions of law-abiding gun owners. The loony left's reflexive hatred of the 2nd Amendment is founded in the concept that people who don't break the law are somehow evil for exercising the Constitutional rights. 'The Purge' is also an obvious attack on the Tea Party and Christians."

"The Purge" opened today, head to a theater and make your own observations about the film. While you're at it, don't forget to come up with a few "just in case" survival guides. You never know when they might come in handy.