10 Most Twisted Asylum Horror Movies

As it stands, The Ward is the final film to be directed by the legendary John Carpenter.

Sure, this 2010 picture may not be of the quality as, say, Halloween, The Fog or The Thing, but The Ward is a movie that's deserving of way more praise than it often gets.

Set in 1966, the film finds Amber Heard's troubled Kristen locked up in Coos Bay Psychiatric Hospital after setting fire to a farmhouse. At Coos, Kristen meets the childlike Zoey (Laura-Leigh), intense Emily (Mamie Gummer), artsy Iris (Lyndsy Fonseca), sultry Sarah (Danielle Panabaker), and hears all about a previous patient named Tammy.

With no memory of her past and having been attacked by a deformed creature, poor Kristen is drugged and given a hearty dose of electroshock treatment by Jared Harris' Dr. Stringer.

Once Iris is killed by former patient Alice Hudson, Kristen starts to dig deep on the mystery behind Alice and discovers that this ex-patient was a bully who the other girls grouped together to kill. Now, the spirit of Alice is stalking those at Coos Bay to exact revenge.

Sarah, Emily and Zoey soon end up dead, and The Ward comes down to Alice vs. Kristen. The kicker here, of course, is that it's revealed Kristen is Alice Hudson.

Having been kidnapped at 11 years of age, Alice spent two months chained up in the basement of the farmhouse burnt down in the opening scene. In order to survive this trauma, she developed a personality disorder that manifested itself in the shape of Kristen, Zoey, Emily, Iris and Sarah.