Thank you for that scary moment. I haven’t even seen the film, but I bet about half the town was ready to have a heart attack when they heard it! Very creepy and these local governments and PDs have gone crazy.
The sheriffs were busting up (appropriately socially distanced) block parties in The middle class part of my town last weekend...while 4 young black men were killed in gang shootings in the hood (where the cops are afraid to go anyway). Priorities.
There were four parts to the Purge. I only saw the first three.
Very weird and surreal. But I like ‘em.
If you wanna hear what the siren tone sounds like, go to Youtube and type “The Purge Alarm Sound” in the search box. It’s about 1 minute long. There’s some narration too The concluding siren is almost worse than the opening siren.
When I was a kid l lived on the Navy base in Yokosuka, Japan, and every day at noon time and 5 PM, they would set off all the air raid sirens on the base.
I must say, that is a scary sound, and when you hear the harmonics of the different sirens interacting with other sirens, causing them to phase in and out with each other, the volume wavering because of it, it is even scarier.
As an aside, we had one of them on top of the building we lived in (an old parachute hangar right across the street from the Fleet Activities building) I got onto the roof one day when I saw the door was unlocked, and went over to the siren. It was big, black, and probably about five feet across I guess. I went back up when it was about to go off, and it was so loud it nearly made me crap my pants, and it did make my heart race. I think I was eight or nine at the time...