Case 39

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Movie
German title Case 39
Original title Case 39
Country of production United States
Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Christian Alvart
script Ray Wright
production Steve Golin ,
Kevin Misher
music Michl Britsch
camera Hagen Bogdanski
cut Mark Goldblatt
occupation

Case 39 (original title: Case 39 ) is a US-American - Canadian horror - thriller from the year 2009 by Christian Alvart , with Renée Zellweger and Jodelle Ferland in the lead roles.

action

Dedicated social worker Emily Jenkins' desk is full of work, and another file lands on the table, "Case 39". First, Emily carries out a routine check-up strictly according to the protocol: during a visit to the Sullivans, the parents of ten-year-old Lillith. Emily helps families in need or parents who are overwhelmed with raising their children. During these visits she has to decide whether action needs to be taken.

On site, she meets the couple, but the father does not exchange a word with the social worker, but rather lets his wife pass on the answers that he whispers to her beforehand. Lillith makes a disturbed impression, seems emotionally frightened, her body shows no signs of violence or abuse on the outside. After this visit, Emily cannot let go of the case. She suspects that there is more going on there than meets the eye. When the family is summoned to the offices of the youth welfare office , she wants to get to the bottom of the matter. In private, Lillith tells Emily that her parents want to kill her, but does not repeat her statement in front of Emily's supervisor. Then the Sullivan family can go home again - without any further conditions.

When Emily gets a terrified call from Lillith at night, she immediately drives to the Sullivan's house and is able to get in there with the help of a policeman friend, Detective Mike Barron. Lillith is locked in the oven by her parents to kill her, which Emily and Mike prevent. Then the parents are admitted to a psychiatric clinic . Emily then looks for a foster family for Lillith, but the young girl has now developed a personal relationship with Emily and therefore wants to live with her. The social worker, who always separates work and private life and does not feel up to the responsibility, finally agrees.

She then returns to Lillith's parents' house and searches for clues there. There she finds crosses, Bibles, locks on the inside of her parents' bedroom and a grave dug in the basement. As a result, Emily began to doubt whether the decision she made to visit the house was the right one. Boy Diego, another case of Emily, murders his parents after a phone call from their home. Lillith learns that Emily's friend Doug has a childhood experience afraid of hornets. After a nightly phone call, he experiences nightmarish visions in which hornets seem to slip out of his ears, eyes and mouth until he panics and kills himself in the bathroom.

Emily gets scared of Lillith and visits her parents. She learns from the father that the little girl is a demon. The father advises Emily to kill the demon, although this can only succeed in one of the few moments when Lillith is asleep. Shortly afterwards, the mother dies when she hallucinates going up in flames; the father attacks an inmate and eventually kills himself; The girl calls Detective Barron that evening and shoots himself. That night Emily Lillith mixes a sleeping pill in the tea; after she fell asleep, she set fire to the house. When the fire brigade arrives, little Lillith is standing next to her. The police escort them to a place to sleep, but Emily leaves the route with her car and scares Lillith when she drives towards a truck. Instead of crashing into him, the truck that Lillith suggested to her disappears. Emily heads for the nearby harbor, where she drives the car into the water, causing it to sink. After a fight with the demon, Emily is able to save herself from the sinking vehicle, and Lillith sinks with the vehicle into the depths.

production

Filming began in October 2006, but had to be stopped because of a fire in the Burnaby film studio.

The production companies for the film are Paramount Vantage , Anonymous Content and Misher Films . The theatrical distribution rights are owned by Paramount Pictures Entertainment and the subsidiary Paramount Home Entertainment owns the distribution rights for DVDs and Blu-rays .

Locations

The American cities of Portland in Oregon and Burbank in California , as well as Vancouver in Canada were used as locations for the exterior shots. The hospital scenes and interiors were filmed at Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam , British Columbia, and The Bridge Studios in Burnaby .

background

  • Chloë Moretz and Isabelle Fuhrman were actually planned for the role of the character Lillith .
  • While filming a fire scene, a fire broke out so that the set and equipment burned.

Premieres

movie theater

The film premiered in New Zealand on August 13, 2009 and was presented on August 21 of the same year at the Fantasy Film Festival in Berlin . The film was then released in Spanish cinemas on August 28th, and simultaneously in Ukrainian and Russian cinemas on September 3rd . The film could be seen in South Korean cinemas from September 10th, and in Sweden from September 11th. The film premiered on October 8 in the UAE , October 16 in Indonesia and on October 23 in Lithuania . From November 5, the horror film was shown simultaneously in Kuwait and Australia , one day later Case 39 premiered in Turkish cinemas before it was released in Egypt on November 25, in Singapore on November 26 and in Taiwan on November 27. The film was released in Hong Kong on December 3rd and in Poland and Mexico simultaneously on December 4th. The premiere took place on January 14th in Portugal and Malaysia , the next day in Romania . Further premieres took place on January 21 in Thailand , February 3 in the Philippines , March 5 in Venezuela , UK and Ireland . The film was shown in German cinemas on March 11, before being shown in Belgium on March 17 and in the Netherlands on March 18 . Case 39 was shown in cinemas in Peru and Argentina on April 8, and in Panama and Brazil a day later . In Canada and the United States , the film celebrated 39 Case 1 October 2010 premiere.

DVD

The film was released directly on DVD in Italy on January 19, 2010 , as well as on July 6 in France , July 23 in Japan and on August 6 in Hungary .

Reviews

The film received mostly negative press in the US. Of the 71 reviews counted on Rotten Tomatoes , only 23% were positive. In summary, it says: "Director Christian Alvert has a certain sense of style, which is wasted on this creepy and unoriginal plot."

“Horror film spiced up with borrowings from the social drama, which unfolds a not very original plot on the trail of well-known predecessors and at most convinces with its leading actresses. But even their credible interpretation cannot hide the banality of this evocation of evil. "

- Lexicon of international film

“ Case 39 is not a particularly original horror film, but it certainly works as an entertaining genre contribution. […] Unlike horror classics that focus on children, […] Case 39 not only leaves the cause of Lilith's malevolence in the dark, but also remains associated with a certain realism. [...] The killing scenes, some of which are a little bit detached, are legitimized by the fact that it is the delusions caused by Lilith that ultimately drive their victims to suicide. "

- Michael Kienzl : critic.de

"Real moments of surprise are missing, but Alvart succeeds in some good sequences on the tour through film history, which, in coalition with jump shocks, from ringing alarm clocks to knocking fingers, and sensitive minds will bring horror behind their hands - and foster mothers motivation problems."

- kino.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for case 39 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 263 K).
  2. ↑ Report by Robert Matas for globeandmail.com on blogspot.de . Accessed August 13, 2013
  3. ↑ rottentomatoes.com accessed on July 27, 2013
  4. ^ Case 39 in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used . Retrieved August 12, 2012
  5. ↑ Michael Kienzl for critic.de; Retrieved August 13, 2012
  6. ↑ Film review on KINO.de; Retrieved August 13, 2012