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- 2011
- R
- XLrator Media
- 1 h 29 m
- 2011
- R
- XLrator Media
- 1 h 29 m
Summary In The Ward, Kristen, early 20’s, wakes to find herself bruised, cut, drugged and held against her will in a remote ward of a psychiatric hospital. She is disoriented and has no idea why she was brought to this place. The other patients in the ward, four equally troubled girls, offer no answers and Kristen quickly realizes things are not...
Directed By: John Carpenter
Written By: Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen
- 2011
- R
- XLrator Media
- 1 h 29 m
- 2011
- R
- XLrator Media
- 1 h 29 m
The Ward
38
7.0
Summary In The Ward, Kristen, early 20’s, wakes to find herself bruised, cut, drugged and held against her will in a remote ward of a psychiatric hospital. She is disoriented and has no idea why she was brought to this place. The other patients in the ward, four equally troubled girls, offer no answers and Kristen quickly realizes things are not...
Directed By: John Carpenter
Written By: Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
38
28% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
33% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
39% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
38
28% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
33% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
39% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Carpenter does what he's always done well here: individualizing shorthand personalities in a group under siege. This is Carpenter's first all-female ensemble, and the inmates are uniformly well-played.
The story's obvious and various potential is left to stand on its own, and the scares are largely uninspired.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 82 User Ratings
7.0
51% Positive
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
34% Mixed
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
15% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 82 User Ratings
7.0
51% Positive
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
34% Mixed
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
15% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
Excellent
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We love you carpenter, but if you follow this with another ghosts of mars, i will be very disappointed, this is a perfect film, this lets us know that you are still an exceptional director, please, don't crush my faith in you - samarathenymph xoxo
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Quaintly old-fashioned in style, plot and special effects, this familiar tale of female derangement and institutional abuse is too tame to scare and too shallow to engage.
The Ward feels less indebted to cinema's past than a desperate attempt to keep up with the present. Carpenter has made his approximation of a cheap, twisty, shock-filled modern horror movie, and he has lost all but faint sighs of his minimalist swagger in the process.
In the end, Carpenter offers a reasonably nice payoff to this whole misfire.
A dull, by-the-numbers psych-ward horror thriller that's sadly a lot closer in quality to "Sucker Punch" than "Shutter Island."
Lacking a single serious scare or sly idea, the movie dies in ways that merely mediocre horror films can't even dream of.
The Ward is not original or the best thriller but it still isn't that **** has scary moments and some really good parts that are worth seeing them but the bad thing about The Ward is the ending that has been seen and watched over and over in the past years. It is quite similar to Shutter Island and Identity which were much better in many ways. However it is not that bad so as to avoid it but the sad thing is that lacks of originality
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The movie is average, it is not that great, but it stands out as a horror movie with a thought provoking story that makes the watcher asks questions that can't be answered, this is what makes it special, especially with the end that makes you confused which is a good thing about movies, it is just not a simple ghost story with characters, no it is a terrifying story of murder and revenge, although it has a tall boring scenes and not that shocking and scary as you think it might be but it is way too better than other ghost stories.
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John Carpenter, am begging you, please do not let this be your "final" movie. End with a bang, not a whimper.
'The Ward' is by far Carpenters worst movie. It's a generic horror thriller that lacks any suspense or atmosphere. Instead the move relays way too much on jump scares to the point it became irritating to watch. It also doesn't help that the twist-ending is just the worst.
Some of the performances were pretty decent; the standout being Jared Harris who is at least trying, bless his heart. However the other performances were pretty terrible; the standout being Amber Turd.
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I had high hopes for this movie but inevitably avoided watching "The Ward" in theatres after reading so many negative reviews. Needless to say, I ended up renting for my own disappointing experience. Terrible character development and the supposed twist of an ending will likely be predictable for most. I give props to the makeup artists and for a few scenes that made me jump a bit but overall, Carpenter's latest flick failed to deliver. I would not recommend this movie to a friend and will avoid watching this in the future.
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