This is another young adults go into an abandoned hospital for the criminally insane film, only to find a few remnants. The build up about a government project and experimentation gives the film the credibility we don't really need. The quality was similar to super VHS. The dialogue was mostly bad. Much of the slice and dice takes place off camera. Dr. Richard Magellan (Liam Card) leads the group and his acting was so terrible I was hoping he got killed first. This film adds nothing new to an already overcrowded genre. My advice is to watch "Wrong Turn IV" instead. Good death metal music during credit rolls. Too bad the film wasn't intense enough to justify it.F-bomb, no sex, nudity (Eva Redpath, Nicole Bonin)

This is by far the worst movie of any genre I have seen in recent memory. Unfortunately the list of duds is quite a long one, so special honors go to this heap of trash. This movie is completely amateurish, from its flat, high-school-acting-class-at-best actors, to its weak, predictable script. Furthermore, this movie is NOT scary. A cast of characters, none of whom are likable, grab a video camera and seek out the supposed truth of what happened in a now closed psychiatric hospital. Enter the madman slasher who still roams the halls, butchering anyone he can get his hands on, leaving us to wonder if the new explorers to the hospital will escape intact. Except we don't care enough either way to find out. Add to that a useless loud music score and you have a complete waste of 86 minutes of your life.

Looking for answers about the "Pandora Project," a rumoured medical experiment that used prisoners and mental patients as test subjects, a crew of "urban explorers" head to Black Creek mental hospital. Once there, as expected, the members of the group begin to drop off, one by one, in gruesome fashion.Let's be honest. . . it doesn't take much to make a reasonable slasher flick. Reasonable writing, actors, and direction are not necessities when it comes to this subgenre. Some of the most entertaining slashers out there were fairly unimpressive in the technical aspects. However, when a film fails in these departments and manages to deliver nothing else to make up for it, there is nothing for the viewers to grasp on to and enjoy. This is what happened with 'Psycho Ward,' the straight-to-video release from Lions Gate.As far as positives go, there's not much to say. The location is pretty cool, but it's hard not to make an abandoned mental hospital look creepy & cool. Also, another visual bonus comes from the gore & makeup FX which were somewhat professional-looking, even if the subpar direction, cinematography, and editing ruined some of the quality of the effects. Sadly, that's about it for anything worthwhile in the film. It's not original. It's not well written. It's not well made. Most importantly, it's not very much fun, which is just about the worst thing that can happen to a slasher filck.Final Verdict: 2.5/10.-AP3-

Slasher horror we've all seen before, but we've seen it better.The story is very simple, a bunch of teens led by Dr. Richard Magellan visit an abandoned prison, which the Doc believes to have been used by the government to conduct experiments using serial killers as guinea pigs. The Doc wishes to document the place and find out the 'truth'. They enter the prison and that's when people start getting bumped off.Despite its low budget the general filming and editing is quite good, some nice effects used in places, the gore scenes (plenty of them) are done well with no cgi, though most kills are off screen the results of the brutal attacks are shown and look pretty good. Unfortunately this is were the good stuff ends.The acting is weak, almost all the characters are weak and/or annoying - in fact the only 'likeable' character is 'Studs' and it seems like he was the character we're supposed to hate! The lead actor playing the doc is simply boring and virtually monotone. 'Sarah' is so annoying I wanted her to die in the first 10 mins, actually that goes for most of the characters. There is near zero back story or character development, the story pushes an expected twist - which doesn't happen and most annoying of all is that there is no answers, no conclusions!The door has been left open for a sequel, I really hope the people involved don't bother.Well filmed, good make-up, bad characters, crap story.3/10