Premiere Pictures has put up our first look at John Carpenter’s new film THE WARD on its official website. Not a whole lot, but it’ll do for now. In addition, it has let loose a new synopsis, although it’s really not telling you anything new. (To learn even more about the flick, check out my script review!)
THE WARD is an intense psychological thriller set in a mental institution where a young woman, Kristen is haunted by a mysterious and deadly ghost. As danger creeps closer, she comes to realize that this ghost might be darker than she could have imagined.
Kristen, early 20’s wakes to find herself bruised, cut, drugged and held against her will in a remote ward of Chamberlain Psychiatric Hospital . She is completely disorientated, with no idea why she was brought this place and no memory of her life.
The other patients in the ward, four equally troubled girls, offer no answers and Kristen quickly realises things are not as they seem. The air is heavy with secrets and at night, when the hospital is dark and foreboding, she hears strange and disturbing sounds. It appears they are not alone.
One by one the girls disappear and Kristen must find a way out of this hellish place before the ghost comes for her too. As she struggles to escape, she will uncover a truth far more dangerous and horrifying than anyone could have imagined.
If you head on over to the official site, you can see three more pictures, but they’re really tiny (which is why I didn’t even bother posting them here). THE WARD stars Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker, Mamie Gummer, Mika Borem, Lyndsy Fonseca and Jared Harris. No release date has yet been announced, but hopefully we’ll get to see it sometime in 2010.
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