Case 39 Reviews

The end of Zellweger as we've known her.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

While it's able to pull you in at some points with its eerie mood, it needed a lot more originality and better scares than the cheap kind of just having things pop up out of nowhere.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

[A] dumb thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

...a decent little horror flick...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Directed by Christian Alvart (Pandorum) with a less than giddy hand, Case 39 is truly terrible. But at least it scores a few 'so bad it's good' points.

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Not only is Case 39 deplorable and morally off-center, the film is dull to boot.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10

What starts out as slight and fairly obvious turns into a frequently colorful horror tale.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

...we get a couple of moments of genuine suspense combined with a whole lot of cheap thrills.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

What do you do with a crummy horror movie that has been sitting on the shelf for a couple, or maybe three, years?

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

... before the movie is half over, the usual cliches take over ...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Its time to put the nail in the otherworldly evil child genre until someone comes up with something original. The only thing supernatural about Case 39 is its ungodly presence on this planet.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5.5

What do you do with a crummy horror movie that has been sitting on the shelf for a couple, or maybe three, years?

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Neither so awful as to be enjoyable nor eerily artful enough to be anything other than a snoozy also-ran.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

in the meantime, director Christian Alvart went on to make the effectively moody "Pandorum," but this movie is a dud.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It's as lame as can be, and despite sitting on the shelf for four years, it's not even bad enough to be unintentionally funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

It's a bummer when the audience is smarter than the protagonist.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Unremarkable except for its subversive subtext.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

As demonic children movies go, it?s really not bad -- and the acting makes it seem a little better than that.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

From a bevy of cheesy jolt scares (alarm clock! barking dog!) to the embarrassing sight of Zellweger and Ian McShane treating this Orphan-style B-movie silliness with grave seriousness, the film proves to be one hokey-horror riot.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

By the time the killings start, it's clear that Ray Wright's screenplay is more interested in following formula than in breaking new ground.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5