The Ward
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Kristen, a troubled young woman, is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. Soon, she begins to suspect that the place has a dark secret at its core and she's determined to find out what it is.
Our read · The Ward (2010) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of The Ward
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“You want a tight asylum ghost story with a Carpenter twist and 1960s dread.”
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