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96
Viewer score based on 14 votes.

Critic Score

38
Critics' score based on 18 reviews.
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This was an awesome movie. You know something was going to happen . but never knew when and the ending was not expected

September 06,2011
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Carpenter does what he's always done well here: individualizing shorthand personalities in a group under siege. This is Carpenter's first all-female ensemble, and the inmates are uniformly well-played.Full Review

Nick Pinkerton
Village Voice

While by no means a masterpiece of the form, John Carpenter's The Ward is an economical period piece that still effectively demonstrates what a skilled technician can accomplish in a single location with a compact cast and sturdy old-school effects.Full Review

Michael Rechtshaffen
The Hollywood Reporter

At least Carpenter the spook-meister knows how to goose you.Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

The story's obvious and various potential is left to stand on its own, and the scares are largely uninspired.Full Review

Michelle Orange
Movieline

Its ostentatious sense of horror -- think later-day Argento -- is far from suggestive, though some of its queasier moments effectively tap into our fears of not-so-bygone forms of invasive physical therapy.Full Review

Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
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