rom the sidelines. A character-driven psychological flick, it chronicles the tumult experienced by five women faced with a murderous, ghostly force in a 60s psych ward. Its also one of the few Carpenter films written by someone elsein this case Michael and Shawn Rasmussen.
Carpenter shouldn't bear all of the blame here: Apparently, no one told relative newcomers Michael and Shawn Rasmussen that a character-driven piece requires characters, much less a plot. Their script delivers a fine twist in the end which, had it been properly set up and executed, might have made "
But screenwriters Michael and Shawn Rasmussen, whose previous effort Long Distance (2005) was filmed in an abandoned mental hospital in Bostons Longwood Medical area, could have used more Stephen King-like plot and character development and fewer genre cliches.