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In 1966, in North Bend, Oregon, the runaway Kristen (Amber Heard) is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. Kristen is introduced to Dr. Gerald Stringer (Jared Harris), who uses experimental therapy. Then she meets the inmates Emily (Mamie Gummer), Sarah (Danielle Panabaker ...
Oct 14, 2010 · The Ward: Film Review. While by no means a masterpiece of the form, John Carpenter's "The Ward" is an economical period piece that still effectively demonstrates what a skilled technician can ...
The Ward is a 2010 American supernatural psychological horror film directed by John Carpenter. In rural Oregon, at the Coos Bay Psychiatric Hospital in 1966, a young patient named Tammy is killed by an unseen force at night. Kristen (Amber Heard), a troubled young woman, sets fire to an abandoned farmhouse and is arrested. The local police take her to Coos Bay, where she meets the other ...
A horror-thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost. "The Ward" is John Carpenter's first full-length feature f...
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Further pushing The Ward into the sludge, is the heavy handed use of jump scares, “ominous” music (which actually gives away the presence of the ghost, thus negating the majority of jump scares) and the poor performances by all the cast. Amber Heard could be commended had this movie been her first acting gig — she tries, even though she ...
JOHN CARPENTER'S THE WARD, a psychological thriller about a young woman locked in a mysterious mental institution in the 1960s, marks iconic horror master John Carpenter's first feature film in over seven years. Kristen (Amber Heard), a beautiful but troubled young woman, finds herself bruised, cut, drugged, and held against her will in a remote ward of a psychiatric hospital. She is ...
Oct 26, 2011 · The Ward is a tense psychological horror that is well made but generally dull. Elements of modern horror kick in towards the end, though it deftly avoids the recent forays into over-the-top gore ...
