Very exciting news to report today! Variety.com confirms that legendary director John Carpenter of Halloween fame is back, signing on to direct ghost story The Ward for indie Echo Lake. Amber Heard will star as a haunted woman in a mental institution. This is big news for our Amber, who will now carry a major movie by herself – and for John Carpenter, none the less! The role itself sounds like a challenge too. We couldn’t be more thrilled for her!

ShockTillYouDrop.com has further details:

A Bigger Boat and Echo Lake are pairing up to produce John Carpenter’s horror film The Ward. Shooting is to begin this May based on a script by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen.

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane‘s Amber Heard will star as a young woman trapped in a mental institution with a malevolent ghost. As danger creeps closer, she comes to realize that this ghost might be darker than she could have imagined.

“The Ward is the kind of script that I’ve been looking for: a complex, visceral story, full of suspense and scares,” says Carpenter. “I am especially pleased to be working with Amber because I know she will create a powerful central performance.”

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Santa Barbara A&E Blog has posted a positive review of The Informers, giving it four stars out of five! The film has been trashed so much that I thought I’d post this for an alternative view:

I am not always a fan of films that ‘go nowhere’, but I do like them more than not, because they have the nerve to explore reality as the best art does – by using our expectations to reveal uncomfortable truths; Very little in real life gets resolved. Very few endings are happy and lesson’s aren’t always learned. All sorts of predictable and random shit just ‘happens’ everyday. So I am supremely grateful for films like The Informers that undermine our built-in cultural sense that we are somehow entitled to a ‘point’.

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