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Don't It Feel Like Something from a Dream: John Carpenter's The Ward Opening Credits

By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (15)

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Back in January, TK posted The Ward trailer; the film has since premiered in the UK, while we poor saps stateside have been left languishing. Since some of us are desperate to see what John Carpenter has in store (this being his first film since 2001,) even the online appearance of the opening credits can cause a stir. The Ward is about a young woman, Kristen (Amber Heard, Zombieland, Never Back Down), who wakes up battered, bruised and captive at a psychiatric hospital. She has no idea how or why she came to be there, and her four female co-patients not only have no helpful information, they start disappearing one by one. Kristen also finds herself in the presence of a ghost, who may or may not have something to do with the vanishing girls.

This sequence speaks for itself, with a quiet spookiness. I get the impression that the ghost is either someone who was tortured at the facility while alive, or someone who did the torturing. I don’t know how that relates to Kristen, but I can’t wait to see the film and find out.

The Ward also stars Danielle Panabaker (The Crazies), Mamie Gummer (Evening), Lyndsy Fonseca (Kick-Ass) and Jared Harris (“Mad Men, Fringe,” The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and opens in limited release April 15, 2011.

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Posted by: DeistBrawler at March 29, 2011 5:03 PM

A genre film in a psych ward? Cue the "this exploits women" bullshit in 3...2...

Posted by: Robert at March 29, 2011 5:16 PM

A genre film in a psych ward? Cue the "this exploits women" bullshit in 3...2...

Posted by: Robert at March 29, 2011 5:16 PM

Eh, what are you gonna do? Bitches be crazy.

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at March 29, 2011 5:20 PM

that looked quite awesome!

As an avowed John Carpenter fan (that includes Vampires and Ghosts of Mars) I hope this is a return to his creepy, mean, dangerous best.

Posted by: Fredo at March 29, 2011 5:31 PM

Yay! I adore John Carpenter! They Live forever! This already is the scariest thing I've seen in movies all year.

Fredo: Wow, even Vampires and Ghosts of Mars, that's true love, man.

Posted by: Mebe at March 29, 2011 5:45 PM

I'm intrigued. I recently watched The Thing and now I'm on a Carpenter kick. This looks pretty interesting and spooky, so I'm game.

Also, you left out Amber Heard's most glorious film credit: Drive Angry.

Posted by: Sassafrass Green at March 29, 2011 5:47 PM

Fredo, I'm with you. But not all the way. Ghost of Mars was campy awesomeness. But Vampires. Ugh.

I guess I should note that I will watch anything with Natasha Henstridge. I would watch her blow her nose for 90 minutes and I would enjoy every second of it. It's left-over adolescent joy from sneaking into "Species" freshman year of high-school.

Posted by: superasente at March 29, 2011 5:53 PM

I don't get it.

Posted by: coryo at March 29, 2011 5:57 PM

I've seen some pretty good opening credits on some decidedly not good movies before so I don't think this necessarily says anything but I'm still hopeful.

Posted by: Paultera at March 29, 2011 6:03 PM

2 things.

1. this looks stupid.

2. I will take you all on in battle and kill the shit out of you in defense of John Carpenter, master of film.

Posted by: idleprimate at March 29, 2011 7:50 PM

Anyone else think that was a photoshopped Sharon Stone in the pictures at first?

Posted by: rornyh at March 29, 2011 10:36 PM

rornyh, I scrolled to the comments to specifically point out that she looks like a young Sharon Stone in the poster. Good call.
The movie looks pretty interesting.

Posted by: Whorish Mouth at March 30, 2011 9:28 AM

WTF?

Posted by: James S at March 30, 2011 3:51 PM

Don't hold your breath for this one guys n' gals. Have seen it in UK and it was a massive disappointment. As a long time JC fan I was hoping for a return to good things. Don't want to spoil, but we've seen it all before, twist-wise. From anyone else it might have been ok-ish, but not from John Carpenter.

Posted by: Decker257 at March 30, 2011 4:38 PM

SPOILER ALERT: She's just one of several personalities of ONE girl. Much like Identity, with John Cusack. After every personality is killed off, one by one, it all comes down to a fnal showdown with two girls fighting ach other. She will survive and thus escape. Fucking boring.

Posted by: Arthur Dent at March 31, 2011 4:14 AM