Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

That was an excellent one.

Simply Perfect

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

There's no real reason to run out and rent The Ward because, like other reviewers here have said, you've seen it all before. (The opening credits must've made a great impression on the makers of Final Destination 5 because they borrowed it for their release a year later).The acting from all parties involved is so-so; basically, clichéd to the point of over familiarity. It's interesting to see the maestro, John Carpenter, ally himself with a low budget, one location offering such as this. A stretch, it definitely wasn't.I noticed this film opened in only three countries - Italy, the United Arab Emirates (of all places!) and Malaysia. Why open a violent film in conservative UAE & Malaysia is a mystery to me. Talk about the mother of all faux pas! Nevertheless, it did make a little bit of money there, no doubt because of the eye candy on display. In the end, if you see this, that's fine. It delivers what it set out to do. If you don't, that's okay, too. Solid 6.

Let me start off by saying, that I am a Die-hard Carpenter fan. I grew up on all of the man's movies and I can say without a doubt in my mind that he is my favorite director of all time, he is a true visionary. Carpenter's last film before this was Ghosts from Mars, and while sub par, at least that movie was ENTERTAINING! This film is a total friggin bore fest!The acting in this movie is quite frankly terrible, everyone in this film is either a total stiff with no emotion or a zany moron with no direction in character. It's just all a big mess. The dialogue is also god awful, it makes me wonder why Carpenter chose to direct this script seeing how he didn't write it himself, which is most of the problem. The plot follows a young girl who happens to be a runaway, she torches a house but she is recaptured by the police shortly after doing so. From here, it's just all downhill. She is sent to the psychiatric hospital, which you would think of as a good suspenseful setting, but you would be wrong. John Carpenter is supposed to be the master of suspense, second to Hitchcock, it's evident by going back and watching some of his horror classics like Halloween and The Thing. Yet, in this hospital, there is absolutely NO atmosphere and no feeling of suspense, the main character is written as a strong woman, but I think that takes away from her performance a lot. Because as she is so focused on being strong, it seems like she is not at all human, she hardly gets scared and she hardly seems to care much, she's just such a bland character even with the ridiculous backstory of hers. A strong supporting cast would have helped her out a little bit more, but you sure as hell won't find that here. These supporting characters are equipped with stupid hokey quirks that don't give them any real character aside from doing stupid random stuff because they are apparently "so wacky and crazy but ohhhh so lovable!" But OOHHH wait THERE'S MORE there's even a twist! That's right! We have dark pasts that deceive you from our silly and cliché fronts! This sounds more and MORE like a Shyamalan film! These characters do nothing but sit around and spew bs to one another and then when one of them gets killed, they're all caring. I don't care about a single one of these characters when they die and let me also just say that the actresses are ironically PAINFULLY bad at acting like they are in agony when the ghost girl you've seen in every other movie kills their horrendous personalities off. While the concept of an evil hospital with a dark past seems promising, with surely promised elements of claustrophobia and suspense, this is thrown out the window in favor of cheap jump scares that I never would expect from a great like John Carpenter. 2/10 Bad movie, Great Director. Just stick to Carpenter's earlier work and I think you'll be good.

Carpenter is a master of cinema and I will not dwell ... On this movie you'll see a case of dissociative disorder with multiple personalities who is experienced in first person accompanying the protagonist in the progressive discovery of the truth of himself. What makes the film interesting and well done is precisely the process in which every veil lifted approaching albeit with some anxiety to the solution; while the film looks like a survival horror, as it is not absolutely a horror but a psychological thriller with some horror scenes but nothing particularly scary in my opinion. Instead prevails the atmosphere, the tension that permeates little or much every second of the film, and you know that here Carpenter is a master. In short, the film will be all the more appreciated as you seize the psychological subtleties of the plot. I liked it a lot.

Carpenter's most recent movie came after a whopping 10 year break from the filmmaking industry. Unfortunately, he needn't have bothered – The Ward is an uninspired and bland minor horror flick that has already been forgotten. It's a shame that after a decade waiting for John to get of his butt the resulting movie contains nothing Carpenter-esque and instead results to cheap jump scares, loud music and a plot twist that is borderline offensive to the viewer.It certainly could have been good – the plot involves an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by spooks in the night– but the movie is clearly the product of an exhausted man well past his peak. The Ward is worth checking out if you're a die-hard Carpenter fan, but otherwise stay away. It's also the only film I've seen that manages to show a number of women showering nude…without any nudity. Unless you count partial side-boobs. But they're no fun. Boo, my friends. Boo, and if you will, hiss.Best Scene: Is there any positives to take from this film? Hmmm, the opening credits were good, I guess. And although you could see it coming from a mile away, the last second of the film scared-the-hell out of me.