Review – Case 39

Anytime a movie goes two years between shooting and release (and a not-particularly-hyped release at that), one can't help but wonder why. Here I'm guessing the problem was editing. In particular, the protagonist (Rene Zellweger) goes from ordinary social worker to paranoid "true believer" in far too short a span. Of course maybe having a demon child move in will do that to a person. Jodelle Ferland does a fine job as the evil kid, providing most of the movie's few genuine scares. The rest is strictly middle-of-the-road horror, neither impressively good nor annoyingly bad. Mildly amusing