Case 39

After languishing for more than two years before its eventual release, this effort from Pandorum director Christian Alvart is riddled with too much silliness to elicit much fear beyond the kind found inside a theme-park haunted house, and not enough camp to make it fun despite itself.

The plot revolves around Emily Jenkins (Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger), an overworked but passionate child-services specialist who takes an interest in the case of Lilith Sullivan (Jodelle Ferland), a young girl who appears to be trapped in the clutches of profoundly creepy, potentially abusive parents. Inconveniently, merely looking like the sort of people who ...