At the beginning of The Ward, we see a young girl (Amber Heard) walk up to the open window of a farm house and set the curtains on fire. Next, she sits outside the front and watches as it burns. She is taken away to a mental institution. It was a great and intriguing opening. I was very curious as to why she burned the place down, who she was, where her family was through all this, was she just insane or did the owner of this house do something equally as terrible to her?  Unfortunately, it all goes downhill from there. It started moving really slow with barely anything happening. Usually, I like films that start slow and build and build and build incredible tension until something intense happens, and it’s all the more entertaining because we had to wait for it. It never got better though. Instead, it got really awful. The ending was just terrible. I don’t know what they were thinking. By “they”, I mostly mean legendary horror director/writer/producer John Carpenter. I don’t know how on earth he read this script and didn’t completely roll his eyes when he got to the end. There is a twist ending. You have seen this twist happen before. It has been done to death, and I just can’t believe that someone who is so into the genre of horror would make a film like this. Especially someone like Carpenter. In 2005, Carpenter directed an episode of the Showtime series Masters of Horror called Cigarette Burns. In my opinion, this is one of the best horror productions of the past 20 years. It was one of the most perfectly measured horror films I’ve ever seen. I’ve watched it several times and still think it is just incredible and highly recommend it. I just don’t see how the same guy who directed such an interesting, mysterious, and haunting film like Cigarette Burns could have made an uninspired film like The Ward. My recommendation? Go check out Cigarette Burns, skip The Ward.

At the beginning of The Ward, we see a young girl (Amber Heard) walk up to the open window of a farm house and set the curtains on fire. Next, she sits outside the front and watches as it burns. She is taken away to a mental institution. It was a great and intriguing opening. I was very curious as to why she burned the place down, who she was, where her family was through all this, was she just insane or did the owner of this house do something equally as terrible to her? 

Unfortunately, it all goes downhill from there. It started moving really slow with barely anything happening. Usually, I like films that start slow and build and build and build incredible tension until something intense happens, and it’s all the more entertaining because we had to wait for it. It never got better though. Instead, it got really awful. The ending was just terrible. I don’t know what they were thinking.

By “they”, I mostly mean legendary horror director/writer/producer John Carpenter. I don’t know how on earth he read this script and didn’t completely roll his eyes when he got to the end. There is a twist ending. You have seen this twist happen before. It has been done to death, and I just can’t believe that someone who is so into the genre of horror would make a film like this. Especially someone like Carpenter.

In 2005, Carpenter directed an episode of the Showtime series Masters of Horror called Cigarette Burns. In my opinion, this is one of the best horror productions of the past 20 years. It was one of the most perfectly measured horror films I’ve ever seen. I’ve watched it several times and still think it is just incredible and highly recommend it. I just don’t see how the same guy who directed such an interesting, mysterious, and haunting film like Cigarette Burns could have made an uninspired film like The Ward.

My recommendation? Go check out Cigarette Burns, skip The Ward.

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  5. skies-of-honey said: I kind of want to know the twist now, especially since I’ll never actually watch this.
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