Kristen, a troubled young woman, is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. Soon, she begins to suspect that the place has a dark secret at its core and she's determined to find out what it is.
Scott Kramer Javier Bennassar Leslie Shatz Mandell Winter Chris David Tim Limer Lara Dale Tom Marks Brian Dunlop
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Using superficial horror genre revival constraints as a saving throw against our larger awareness is a brilliant tactic and it totally works at least on me.
How mental hospital horror works, how supernatural teen slasher horror works, mapped on top of each other form another, sort-of hidden blueprint for escape into a larger narrative convention equally as superficial and equally as beholden to genre constraint rendered surprising only by the means and the velocity by which we are finally directed there.
The Ward does not care about realism or accuracy in the slightest, continually pushing at the bounds of how much we have invested in these concerns, testing their utility, flickering in and out where the margins are weakest, that…
The suspense and terror are no longer what they were replaced by boredom and predictability. For 80 minutes out of a total of 88 Carpenter makes you think you're watching an episode of Supernatural.
In a mental hospital with very polite doctors,a patient with pyromaniac tendencies make his appearance. Kristen, a smart blonde, does not want to stay in the pavilion although we have no idea why she burned a house.In the first night,strange incidents start happening.In the second night a ghost makes its appearance.The problem is that the ghost begins to kill her colleagues in strange ways.
From a technical standpoint, the film is great.The soundtrack and atmosphere are the best things about the film.Most of the performances were…
wild that this is considered lesser Carpenter (let alone a bad movie) when it furtively inverts the structure of the slasher and uses it to disassemble the mythologized and otherwise concealed nihilism that low-rent ghost stories, asylum horror, etc. tend to offer as a response to female trauma. that it manages to not only perform these acrobatic feats of deconstruction but also is so restlessly paced and economical in its delineation of spaces is a minor miracle, at least.
Amber Heard faces trial... against her own mind and confronts difficult odds and an uphill battle if she appeals her case, experts said.
The final film from the great John Carpenter.....is this rather lacklustre retread of tired genre tropes, garnished with a final reveal that blatantly plagiarises a superior film released a few years earlier. The Ward is set in a psychiatric hospital where the residents are apparently being terrorised by a ghost. The main problem with this is that there's no tension or suspense - just a few cheap jump scares and a bit of violence to add a little interest to the narrative. The mostly female cast of characters is thinly drawn and the drama between them is trite for the most part. The soundtrack suggests the film is going for a mystery angle, but this is never properly realised as…
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Ehhh, I'm not gonna call this totally terrible or anything - it's a well shot film, but man is it ever the definition of uninspired, especially coming from JC himself. The story is bland to a fault, the ghost scares are as stock as they come, the soundtrack is forgettable (criminal for a Carpenter film!), and the style is totally lacking. There's just no tension or suspense created, causing every beat of the story to fall so flat. Five minutes would pass and I'd already forgotten what JUST happened in the previous scene. Ugh.
So hard to believe this was John Carpenter behind the camera. The man known…
1966, a slip and a match. Curtains from hell. It’s time for it to all come down. The ambulance looks like a hearse. Are you willing to follow the rules? The $64,000 question. Carpenter still had it, at least visually anyway. Is that the guy from Mad Men who hung himself?
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What to make of Amber Heard? Am I good, bad or indifferent on her? There’s almost a tenderness to Carpenter's usual patented lope of dread. Is he one of the sad people, or is he in on the joke? Run baby run. Bite the bit. Steam induced inhumanity eclipsed your fragile egg shell mind. Old dirty hippies remember things fondly, like Carpenter and his watchful…
I really hope that this isn't the last film Carpenter graces us with, this bargain bucket version of Shutter Island is a poorly constructed film that ranks amongst Carpenter's weakest in his largely excellent filmography.
The Ward tells the story of a young woman (Amber Heard) who's incarcerated in a mental hospital after having no recollection of who she is or why she burned down a farm house. As she becomes accustomed to her new surroundings, she notices a strange ghost-like figure stalking the halls and attacking the hospitals residents. And she has to figure out why.
This film is a case of pressing ahead with filming on a dud script. This is one of the most painfully dull films…
Kristen is someone who most would consider mentally disturbed. After burning down a farmhouse she is committed to the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital, an asylum that is equipped to deal with situations like hers. She is placed in a wing known as "The Ward" where those who are deemed a danger to themself or others are housed. Within her first few days in the ward she begins to see the disfigured ghost of a woman.
Anytime someone asks "What is the worst movie ever made by Joh..." they are immediately cut off by horror hounds mid sentence with the title The Ward. For many years I have heard nothing but disdain, disappointment, and outright mockery toward this film but I've…
