Case 39 is a pretty good horror movie!

[BH14]

This movie was pretty much a bomb at the box office as it made like $13 million but I think it is a pretty good movie. Without telling too much, just see it. I don't want to give any spoilers. Plenty of interesting death scenes! I give it a 7 out of 10.

[BookZombie]

I saw this. I think it was a good watch for just some mindless entertainment, there is nothing new in this film but I do not think everything have to be new and original all the time, at least it is a far better scary kid film than Orphan, though I found that to rather amusing. I have to say that the young child actress in Case 39 do a good job though.

[ash89]

Originally Posted by BookZombie

I saw this. I think it was a good watch for just some mindless entertainment, there is nothing new in this film but I do not think everything have to be new and original all the time, at least it is a far better scary kid film than Orphan, though I found that to rather amusing. I have to say that the young child actress in Case 39 do a good job though.

Thought this was kind of average - saw it on Sky Movies the other week. Wasn't really scary, only one point I jumped and I don't think you were even meant to!! The other jumps were cheap and so obvious to anyone who's watched horrors before. Killed a hour or so I guess though!

As for Orphan, urgh I've never guessed the plot/twist to a film so quickly through a film.

[nightmare_of _death]

I thought Case 39 was ok there was only one scene I really liked. I liked Orphan a lot more.

[BookZombie]

The only thing that made orphan even a little bit creepy for me is that we had a similar case in Norway not that long ago, a 33 year old woman on the run from the police (I have forgotten what country she was from) posed as a 12 year old boy for months, went to school and everything.

I like the story in Case 39, it is not really scary, however I am seldom scared by horror movies. I think the story was kind of neat however, not brilliant by any stretch of the imagination, however quite interesting and a good way to waste an hour and a half.

[BookZombie]

This is the case with the 33 year old posting as a boy. I took this from an online site as it was the only article on this case I could find in English right now.

Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy…

OSLO, Norway (AP) - A 33-year-old Czech woman managed to spend several months posing as a 13-year-old boy named “Adam,” fooling teachers and child care workers in Norway, police said Thursday.

Barbora Skrlova was deported back to the Czech Republic and detained on Wednesday, Czech police spokeswoman Andrea Prochazkova said. Authorities said she was undergoing psychiatric evaluation.

A woman who supplied a Czech passport enrolled “Adam” at the Marienlyst school near Oslo in September. However, authorities say it actually was the 5-foot-2 Skrlova, her breasts bound and head shaved.

“We did react to Adam’s behavior. But it’s not easy to know. Children at that age can be so different,” school principal Ingjerd Eriksen told the Oslo newspaper Dagbladet.

Czech authorities are now looking into whether Skrlova should be charged with identity theft and misleading authorities, police said.

It apparently was not the first time Skrlova had fooled authorities by posing as a child, which in Norway offered her food and shelter. Czech police say she posed as a 13-year-old girl adopted by a woman in the Czech city of Brno.

That woman in Brno is now suspected of abusing of her two younger biological sons, and Skrlova is key witness in the case. Facing an investigation, Skrlova left with friends for Denmark and ended up in Norway.

“Not even we have been able to figure out what is up and down in this case,” Norwegian police attorney Sven T. Roer said.

Skrlova fled the Czech Republic after being sought by police as a key witness in a high profile 2007 child abuse case believed to involve an obscure religious sect, Norwegian and Czech news reports said.

In mid-December, “Adam” disappeared from an Oslo children’s home, prompting police to launch a nationwide search and publish photographs on Jan. 4 of the missing “child.” Tips led them to find Skrlova in the Arctic city on Tromsoe.

“It turned out that the so-called missing teenager was a 33-year-old woman,” Norwegian police said in a statement.

[BH14]

Orphan was a great movie and one of my favorites of that year. As for the real life russian woman posing, I think she has mental problems... Who would want to re-live their jr high school days? I would like to see Orphan 2 with a 33 year old guy posing as a 13 year old girl but the beard could give it away.

[BookZombie]

Well hiding as a kid is good way to make sure you are not found.

[TheWickerFan]

I thought Case 39 was a far superior film to Orphan. Orphan used every "bad seed" movie cliche in the book and even with the unusual twist was very bland and unoriginal. Case 39 had some unexpected scares and didn't follow the typical pattern for this type of film. Most notably, the people around the spooky kid are quick to realize something is very wrong when people start dying and don't go into that annoying state of denial because the suspect is a child. The ending of the film was rather dull, but I would recommend Case 39.

[BookZombie]

I think both movies followed the mold rather closely and there was not allot of surprises in any of them, but I did enjoy watching Case 39 more than Orphan though I enjoyed both. However I do not know if I can judge which movie was best. I am however a fan of Jodelle, the child actress who stars in Case 39 so that do tip scales in the favor of that movie for me. But I think Orphan was perhaps film technically better with better arranged and made scenes, however I think Case 39 had the superior story.

I sort of liked the ending of Case 39, yes it was unoriginal, but we got to see the little girl in her true form and I sort of liked the sinking car and trying to get away from the monster trapped inside it. I do not know why but I enjoyed that.