{"id":7005,"date":"2011-12-06T19:16:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T00:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7005"},"modified":"2015-10-02T14:17:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:17:40","slug":"the-ward-2010-john-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7005","title":{"rendered":"The Ward (2010, John Carpenter)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1966 Oregon, Kristen (Amber Heard of Drive Angry 3-D<\/em>) burns down a house, is arrested, sent to The Ward at a psychiatric hospital, given mean looks from the nurse and orderly, but patience from the doctor (Jared Harris, the guy who isn’t Iggy Pop or Billy Bob Thornton in my favorite scene of Dead Man<\/a><\/em>). She gradually gets to know her fellow patients, none of whom are real because the movie has a massive Tyler Durden ending. The ghost story (“Alice is killing us one by one”) and murder mystery (“who killed Alice?”) are all Kristen\/Alice coming to terms with her identity, after some traumatic shit went down in that farmhouse from earlier.<\/p>\n

Here’s Meryl Streep’s daughter again (as Emily, the one who also wants to escape) with much more to do than in Larry Crowne<\/a><\/em>. We’ve also got Danielle Panabaker (of Friday the 13th Remake<\/em>) as Sara the sexy one, Laura-Leigh as Zoey the girly pigtails one, and Lyndsy Fonseca (of the Femme Nikita<\/em> TV show) as Iris the smart one. Some traumatic electroshock therapy and murder by medical instruments, the most easily-escapable psych ward ever, and the non-MST3K version of Bert I. Gordon’s Tormented<\/em> on a television set.<\/p>\n

It’s all pretty boring, an average 2010-era teen shock-horror flick, sub-Drag Me To Hell<\/a><\/em>, except for one cool bit at the end with editing to the beat of the doctor’s metronome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1966 Oregon, Kristen (Amber Heard of Drive Angry 3-D) burns down a house, is arrested, sent to The Ward at a psychiatric hospital, given mean looks from the nurse and orderly, but patience from the doctor (Jared Harris, the guy who isn’t Iggy Pop or Billy Bob Thornton in my favorite scene of Dead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1127,54,57],"class_list":["post-7005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-asylum","tag-horror","tag-john-carpenter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10266,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions\/10266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}