Archive for November, 2011
This Movie Will Keep You Up At Night!
Nights can sometimes seem dark and scary, especially, if you have been watching a movie that may later haunt you in your dreams. You know that you are watching a movie that could very easily keep you up all night but you still continue to watch. Later when you are trying to sleep, you know that their is nothing there in your light-less bedroom except the shadows but you must turn on the light just to make sure. It is impossible for you to rest because your thoughts keep going around in your mind about the eery movie that you just saw and you do not want what happened to Kristen happening to you.
Imagine yourself in a mental institution, trapped, with strange things happening in the night. This is what happens to Kristen in John Carpenter’s movie, The Ward. Kristen is being terrorized by things that she can not see. She is a beautiful women who has a troubled mind but she knows what is happening in the her hospital ward is real. This disturbed young woman finds herself bruised and cut and she is at loss in knowing what to do. Someone is drugging her with laughing gas and she does not know to whom she can turn for help. Other women who are also mentally ill patients in ward four are considered just as crazy as Kristen and they can not help her through this terrifying ordeal.
The air around Kristen grows heavy at night in ward four and their are weird and frightening sounds coming from somewhere in the night in this hospital from hell. She knows that the young women who reside in ward four are not the only ones there. Their is another presences more disturbed in this ward. Her ward mates start to come up missing and she knows that she will be next, if she can not escape this mind altering place of horror.
You will find out at the end of the movie as Kristen tries to escape that their is a far more sinister truth lurking in ward four that will horrify and disturb your very being. This movie will keep you up all night!