Carpenter Work In London

John Carpenter's latest effort sees Kristen (Amber Heard) taken to an asylum after burning down a farmhouse. In the asylum's ward inmates disappear without a trace. Not willing to accept complacency, Kristen must not only save herself, but also the lives of her fellow inmates. The secrets that lie beneath The Ward are deep enough to revive the dead, and soon lead Kristen to suspect that the inmates are not the only ones inhabiting the ward.

Kristen Stewart's Understudies

The Ward's primary foil is its complete lack of originality and its willingness to adhere to recycled ideas from a genre that's already all too known for its repetitiveness. The one original aspect in Carpenter's The Ward is the decision to cast one unattractive female in order to "even out" the field of 5 or more beauties. At times The Ward looks like it's the latest installment in the Final Destination series or any number of teen marketed thrillers. Amber Heard serves merely as the lead piece of eye candy, a slender blonde pawn to which the viewer follows through a series of build ups and lame pay offs. As for the rest of the ladies, they fulfill similar purposes: run, scream, die; and, in true teeny-bop horror fashion, the ladies do an admirable job. Emotionally, why should we care if these teen stereotypes, with little to no depth of character, live or die?