{"id":1475,"date":"2011-01-14T13:14:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T12:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2011-01-14T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T12:17:18","slug":"the-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2011\/01\/14\/the-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Ward<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\nFormat:<\/B> Cinema

\nRelease date:<\/B> 21 January 2011

\nVenues:<\/B> nationwide

\nDistributor:<\/B> Warner Bros

\nDirector:<\/B> John Carpenter

\nWriters:<\/B> Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen

\nCast:<\/B> Lindsy Fonseca, Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker, Jared Harris

\nUSA 2010

\n88 mins\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A cinematic math equation to demonstrate genre success:<\/p>\n

Veteran genre-meister John Carpenter (The Thing<\/I>, Halloween<\/I>) directs a horror film set in the 1960s where none of the babes have hairstyles remotely resembling 60s dos. + One mouth-wateringly hot Amber Heard (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane<\/I>), incarcerated in a creepy old asylum after committing arson in her sexy under garments. + As luck would have it, the ward Amber gets thrown into is replete with babes. + One by one, the babes are butchered. + Amber keeps seeing a weird chick wandering the halls, but is told it’s just her imagination and when she insists and persists, Amber gets manhandled by burly male nurses who zap her with electro-shock therapy and truss her lithe body into a straightjacket. + In one of the more disgusting moments in horror movie history, one of the babes in the ward is electro-shocked until… well, I won’t ruin it for you, but trust me - it’s pretty fucking gross! + The ghost is one super-gnarly monster: mucho-drippings of the viscous kind. + A creepy psychiatrist appears to be engaging in (what else?) unorthodox experiments upon the babes in the ward. + An ultra-butch ward nurse manages to give Louise Fletcher a run for her money in the Nurse Ratched Mental Health Caregiver Sweepstakes. + Tons of cheap scares that make you jump out of your seat and, if you have difficulties with incontinence, you are advised to bring along an extra pair of Depends. + A thoroughly kick-ass climax leads up to the delivery of a Carrie<\/I>-like shocker ending = One free blowjob for the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes for selecting the film and especially for getting me into the sold-out midnight screening after I fucked up getting my ticket from the right place at the right time. Said blowjob shall occur once someone carves glory holes into the public washroom stalls of the new Bell Lightbox complex where the festival and its year-round Cinematheque are now housed. One free blowjob and rim job shall be bestowed upon John Carpenter for making this film. Said delights for Mr Carpenter shall occur once he finishes (I kid you not!) jury duty in El Lay, which, alas, kept him from appearing in Toronto to do a Q&A session.<\/p>\n

This is a rewrite of a review that first appeared during the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival at Daily Film Dose<\/A>. It was first published on the Electric Sheep website as part of our coverage of the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival<\/A>.<\/div>\n

And that, genre freaks, is your Mathematical equation for the day. It all adds up. Real good.<\/p>\n

Greg Klymkiw<\/B><\/I><\/p>\n

Watch the trailer:<\/B><\/p>\n

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A cinematic math equation to demonstrate genre success.
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