John Carpenter’s highly publicized return to horror, The Ward, has finally been picked up by an American distributor. The film premiered last year at the Toronto Film Festival, but left American fans scrambling for any insight into the feature film. After a month or so of waiting, The Ward has been picked up by a company willing to sell it to the American market. ARC Entertainment and XLRator Media will team up to get this movie to all of us horror fans. No word has been released in terms of a release date or if it will hit theatres or go straight-to-DVD. Oh well, at least horror fans can finally let out a sigh of relief. Hopefully, we’ll be able to see The Ward by the summer.
The Ward is John Carpenter’s first feature length horror film in ten years. The synopsis is as follows. “Kristen, a beautiful but troubled young woman, finds herself bruised, cut, drugged with laughing gas. 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.” The film will star Amber Heard and Danielle Panabaker.
This should be interesting–psychological thriller. Although not entirely original, hopefully Carpenter can pull some new tricks out of his vintage gored-rabbit hat.
Hopefully when I get my hands on it this won't end up being another plotless film ala Ghosts of Mars.