Overview

Kristin (Amber Heard) and Emily (Mamie Gummer)

Directed by: John Carpenter
Written by: Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen
Produced by: Peter Block, Rich Cowan, Doug Mankoff, Mike Marcus, Andrew Spaulding
Running Time: 88 minutes
Release: July 08, 2011 (New York City)
Box Office: Not stated

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Region Code: 1 (USA)
Distributor: Arc Entertainment
ASIN: B0052DP1RC
Release Date: August 16, 2011
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Region Code: A (USA)
Distributor: Arc Entertainment
ASIN: B0052DP1TA
Release Date: August 16, 2011
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The Ward
Kristen (Amber Heard), 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 (Danielle Panabaker, Mamie Gummer, Mika Boorem, Lyndsy Fonseca) 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.

Cast & Characters: Amber Heard (Kristin), Danielle Panabaker (Sarah), Mamie Gummer (Emily), Lyndsy Fonseca (Iris), Laura Leigh (Zoey), Jared Harris (Dr. Stringer), Sali Sayler (Tammy), Susanna Burney (Nurse Lundt), Dan Anderson (Roy), Sean Cook (Jimmy), Jillian Kramer (Ghost Alice), Mark Chamberlin (Mr. Hudson), Andrea Petty (Mrs. Hudson)
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Production Notes
Mamie Gummer, The Gothamist, August 2009
"I get to play "crazy." It's been actually really fun and John is so calm and good humored about everything. It's quite pleasant. I am a total wimp. I can't ever watch these kinds of movies. I don't even know if I'll be able to sit through this without covering my eyes. But working on it, seeing how it's all done, is really just amusing. The girl playing the ghoul that torments us - her name is Gillian and she is incredibly sweet - it takes her 3 hours to get into makeup. So knowing all that - it's hard to be affected by it really. The only thing that is truly creepy is our location. That is for real. There is no facade. We're filming in an honest-to-god insane asylum that is in part still operational. And it's been there for about 100 years - when it opened it was a "school for the feeble minded. The "campus" is huge. They've lost a lot of their state funding and have shut most of it down but in its day it had its own zip code and fire department and dairy. Anyway there was this one building where they housed the really crazy crazies in rooms that were the size of closets - literally. Incredibly depressing. And they did this until the 1960s when the patients staged some sort of riot - and the building was shut down until, that is, they turned it into a primate testing facility and now it's fallen into total disrepair. That's where I go everyday."
Links & Research
Internet Movie Database additional information
Adoring Amber Heard fansite on the actress
Daneielle Panabaker Source fansite on the actress
Lyndsy Fonseca Web fansite on the actress