Over a month ago, I pointed you toward Premiere Pictures’ Official Site, which had a couple official stills from THE WARD, John Carpenter’s long-awaited return to feature-film directing. Now they’ve gone ahead and updated again (props to STYD for spotting it), this time with a sad and tired-looking Amber Heard about to get snatched up by coppers. (I have it on excellent authority that this is an image from early in the film.)
Unfortunately, we still don’t know when this flick is going to be released. It’s currently in post-production; hopefully it’ll be ready for us to see – be it in theaters or at home – by the summer. (How about Halloween? Even better.)
In JOHN CARPENTER’S THE WARD, Kristen, a beautiful but troubled young woman, finds herself bruised, cut, drugged, and held against her will in a remote ward of a Psychiatric Hospital. She is completely disoriented, with no idea why she was brought to this place and no memory of her life before being admitted. All she knows is that she isn’t safe.
The other patients in the ward, four equally disturbed young women, offer no answers, and Kristen quickly realizes 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 frightening sounds. It appears they are not alone.
One-by-one the other girls begin to disappear and Kristen must find a way out of this hellish place before she, too, becomes a victim. As she struggles to escape, she will uncover a truth far more dangerous and horrifying than anyone could have imagined.
Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker, Mamie Gummer, Lyndsy Fonseca, Jared Harris and Mika Boorem (below) star in Carpenter’s film.