Case 39 is a newish J-horror-esque flic starring Renée Zellweger, Cradley Booper, and Ian McShane. It was directed by Christian Alvart, who made Pandorum (which I haven’t seen but Netflix thinks I’ll give it 1.5 stars), and written by The Crazies‘ Ray Wright. The film was also released to half the world last year, and the other half earlier this year. It finally finds it way to American theaters in October. America is last?! Don’t they know who we are?! Paris Hilton lives here.

McShane aside, based on the people involved I feel like this movie isn’t going to be any good. But the trailer isn’t half bad. So who knows. Have any of our foreign readers seen this thing? Do us Yanks need to watch Zellweger’s sucking-on-a-lemon face for 90 minutes?

I think maybe the whole movie is an allegory about how we shouldn’t interfere in child abuse cases.