The Ward is a 2010 horror thriller film directed by John Carpenter, and it stars Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, and Jared Harris. The story takes place in the late 1960s in Oregon, where Kristen (Amber Heard) is committed to a mental institution after burning down a farmhouse. However, the hospital has its fair share of secrets as one by one, the other patients start disappearing under mysterious circumstances.
As Kristen struggles to adjust to life in the Ward, she begins to see a ghostly figure that haunts the hallways at night. The staff dismisses her claims as delusional, but Kristen is convinced that the apparition is real, and it's trying to kill her. As she races against time to uncover the hospital's dark past, Kristen soon realizes that the ghost is more than just a figment of her imagination, and that the terrible truth about the Ward may lie closer to home than she ever imagined.
Throughout the movie, the tension builds as Kristen's paranoia increases, and the audience is left wondering whether or not she's truly insane or if the ghost is real. The Ward ultimately culminates in a twist ending that should delight horror fans.