John Carpenter’s The Ward – Title Credits Slip Online

Steve Barton |

Mar 28, 2011

While we all wait patiently for John Carpenter’s The Ward to dole out the goods here in the States, yet another bit of the film has popped up online — its opening credits sequence.

You can dig on that and sample the score by Mark Kilian below courtesy of Italian horror site Splatter Container.

Amber Heard (Drive Angry 3D), Mamie Gummer (“Off the Map”), and Danielle Panabaker (Friday the 13th) star in this shocker set in a 60s mental institution terrorized by malevolent forces.

Synopsis
The Ward is an intense psychological thriller set in a mental institution where a young woman, Kristen, is haunted by a mysterious and deadly ghost. As danger creeps closer, she comes to realize that this ghost might be darker than she could have imagined.

Kristen, who is in her early 20’s, wakes to find herself bruised, cut, drugged, and held against her will in a remote ward of Chamberlain Psychiatric Hospital. She is completely disoriented with no idea why she was brought to this place and no memory of her life.

The other patients in the ward, four equally troubled girls, offer no answers, and Kristen quickly realizes things are not as they seem. The air is heavy with secrets, and at night, when the hospital is dark and foreboding, she hears strange and disturbing sounds. It appears they are not alone.

One by one the girls disappear, and Kristen must find a way out of this hellish place before the ghost comes for her, too. As she struggles to escape, she will uncover a truth far more dangerous and horrifying than anyone could have imagined.