The Purge 3: Election Year

(2016)

The third entry in this dystopian murder spree franchise was filmed in Rhode Island—mainly Providence and Woonsocket—between September 14 and early November 2015.

In rough chronological order, here are the recognizable locations used:

• The NFFA meeting takes place in the Governor's State Room at the Rhode Island State House.
• A town hall meeting scene was filmed in Sapinsley Hall at Rhode Island College.
• The Kwik Mart, 118 Main Street, Woonsocket, was transformed into "Joe's Deli."
• T.F. Green Airport, Warwick.
• Athenaeum Row, Benefit Street, Providence, provides at least some of the exteriors for Senator Roan's (Elizabeth Mitchell) residence.
• Woonsocket's Main Street was used to depicts the streets of Washington, D.C.
• Weybosset Street, Providence, where the triage van drives beneath the "Peace not Purge" banner.
• Some scenes were shot on the campus of the Rhode Island School of Design; specifically the alleyway adjacent to the Design Center's south wall, 30 North Main Street (this may be where the guillotine scene takes place).
• Prospect Terrace, Providence, is where Barnes (Frank Grillo) and Roan spot the drone.
• When Barnes and Roan come down a set of concrete stairs and turn right along a blue painted wall, that's the rear of 162 Main Street, Woonsocket. The mural in the background which normally reads "Keep Woonsocket Beautiful" was modified to read "Keep Washington Beautiful" for the film.
• The spot where the tracer bullet is left is under the iWay Bridge at Bridge Street, just south of the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier.
• The Safe Zone is located in the basement of the Rhode Island State House.
• St. Ann Arts and Cultural Center at 84 Cumberland Street in Woonsocket stands in as Our Lady of Sorrows, the site of the purge mass.
• The scene where Barnes parlays with Bishop (Edwin Hodge) takes place in the the RIPTA bus tunnels on South Main Street.

Some locations that were reportedly used but which were either unrecognizable or deleted from the final cut include Shipyard Street on Johnson & Wales University's Harborside Campus, Indian Point Park Bridge Tunnel, and the Speaker's Office and Capitol Rotunda at the Rhode Island State House.

Sometimes productions leave their locations better than they found them. Steven Feinberg of the Rhode Island Film and Television Office told the Boston Globe that "...Blumhouse Productions... left a nice curtain behind in the State House."

The film was released to theaters nationwide on July 1, 2016.