The Ward (film)
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| Directed by | John Carpenter |
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| Music by | Mark Kilian |
| Cinematography | Yaron Orbach |
| Edited by | Patrick McMahon |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.2 million |
The Ward is a 2010 American psychological horror film directed by John Carpenter. It stars Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker and Jared Harris. The film is a period piece set in 1966, and 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.
The film was shot on location at the Eastern State Hospital in Medical Lake, Washington. It is Carpenter's first full-length feature film since Ghosts of Mars in 2001; as of March 2017, it is the last film he has directed.
In rural Oregon, at the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital in 1966, a young patient named Tammy is attacked and killed by an unseen force during the night.
Kristen (Amber Heard), a troubled young woman, sets fire to an abandoned farmhouse and is arrested shortly thereafter. The local police take her to North Bend where she meets the other patients in the ward: the artistic Iris (Lyndsy Fonseca), the seductive Sarah (Danielle Panabaker), the wild Emily (Mamie Gummer), and the child-like Zoey (Laura-Leigh). Kristen is taken to a room, which the other girls inform her was previously occupied by their friend, Tammy. Kristen also meets her therapist, Dr. Stringer (Jared Harris), and she reveals that she is unable to recall anything about her past. Later, she awakens in the middle of the night and sees a horribly-deformed figure staring at her. While she is with Iris and Emily in the courtyard, Kristen sees two people looking at her from Dr. Stringer's office and asks the two girls about them but they give no clue as to who they are. While taking a shower, Kristen is attacked by the deformed figure, but upon telling the nurse this, she is drugged and put through intense electroshock therapy. During a session with Dr. Stringer, Iris mentions Tammy but is then immediately halted by the doctor.
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