Presents

Psycho Ward

Back in October, I was in Wisconsin for the It Came From Lake Michigan film festival, and I saw quite a few movies that were really great and deserve a wider audience.  One of those that was getting a lot of buzz around the fest was Psycho Ward, a great indie movie that looked like it had a bigger budget than it did!

The story here is fairly familiar, a group of researchers are doing a documentary on insane asylums from the past.  When we meet them, they're at a particularly nasty asylum that housed not only severly dangerous criminals, but it also experimented on them.  When the group goes into the new abandoned building, they begin to disappear one at a time.  Yes, it's familiar territory, but it's done in a pretty original way, it seems that once the asylum was closed, the inmates were just turned out into the world, and, while most of them were recaptured or are accounted for, one, a very nasty inmate named Coombs was never found.  It seems that Coombs never really left the asylum, he's been living there, capturing, torturing and killing anyone dumb enough to break in.

Psycho Ward is a great indie horror movie that doesn't look indie at all, it's got all the polish of any big budget movie out there!  The cast is great, the story moves pretty quickly, and, even if the story feels slightly familiar, the shocks are cool enough that you'll be glad you're along for the ride!  You can check out the trailer by heading over to the Psycho Ward website.

So, until next time, when I'll share with you the time I was in the Psycho Ward myself...not as an inmate, I was just visiting...until then, remember that the best movies are bad movies.