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The Ward: Film Review

10:21 PM PDT 10/14/2010 by Michael Rechtshaffen, AP

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.

TORONTO -- After nearly a decade away from the big screen (since 2001's Ghosts of Mars, to be precise), versatile genre director John Carpenter returns with a spare, atmospheric supernatural thriller that has been stripped of the filmmaker's later excesses.

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