The Ward (2010): North Bend Psychiatric hospital has problems, a killer stalks the corridors of it's locked ward (which is very much The Ward), we see poor Tammy being killed. Cut to daylight in the woods, Kristen is running in a panic, she sets fire to an old farmhouse and police bring her to North Bend. She meets other patients in their late teens in The Ward, all suffering from differing psychiatric disorders. Kristen is assigned to Tammy's room but there is no mention of what happened to the missing girl. The staff are rather creepy, most of them straight out of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and when Kristen proves rebellious she is subjected to electroshock treatment. The dynamic between the patients also owes a lot to OFOTCN but also bears some relationship to Girl Interrupted. This is very much a Horror Film though, girls disappear and the staff are in denial, the ghost of a previous patient may be the killer. Some gruesome/disturbing scenes with a few jump scares and interesting twists. Not one of Director John Carpenter's best films but working from a script by the Rasmussen Brothers he delivers an enjoyable horror movie. 6.5/10.
