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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…
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
so this is just Identity in a psych ward?? ok go off I guess
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damn that was some shitty acting
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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…
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JC, I love you man but this fuckin blows
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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.
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Amber Heard faces trial... against her own mind and confronts difficult odds and an uphill battle if she appeals her case, experts said.
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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…
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⛄Daily Horror Hunt #31 (Jan. 2021)⛄
[16] Watch a John Carpenter film.
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,…
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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?
The new girl apocalypse.
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.…
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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…
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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…
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