The Ward
The Ward (titled onscreen as John Carpenter's The Ward) is a 2010 American supernatural psychological horror film directed by John Carpenter and starring Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, Laura-Leigh, Lyndsy Fonseca and Jared Harris. Set in 1966, the film chronicles a young woman who is institutionalized after setting fire to a house, and who finds herself haunted by the ghost of a former inmate at the psychiatric ward. As of 2022, this is Carpenter's most recent film as a director.
Plot
In rural Oregon, at the Coos Bay Psychiatric Hospital in 1966, a young patient named Tammy is killed by an unseen force at night.
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| author | Michael Rasmussen Shawn Rasmussen |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Oregon |
| director | John Carpenter |
| editor | Patrick McMahon |
| genre | horror thriller |
| keywords | abandon arrest attack belong chain create deform drug electroshock therapy end hypnotherapy kidnap kill laura-leigh multiple personality disorder one by one personality disorder psychiatric hospital session straitjacket string transorbital lobotomy young woman |
| musicBy | Mark Kilian |
| producer | Andrew Spaulding Doug Mankoff Mike Marcus Peter Block |
| productionCompany | Echo Lake Entertainment |
| publisher | Arc Entertainment XLrator Media |
| theme | independent psychological horror psychological thriller |