The desire to watch this movie certainly warms up the recognized "King of Horrors" Stephen King, who called this work "the best film of 2010". Paying tribute to the master, I started watching. I must say that the whole film did not leave me feeling that this creation belongs to the Great and the Terrible. The same children, the same cockroaches in my head, the same problems of the adolescent period, the same evil spirits ...
Personally for me, this film is not about vampires, as it may seem at first approximation. Not about them. A film about children's solitude. About children, which adults prefer not to notice. About children's problems, which adults do not want to hear (Owen - father: "Is there evil in the world?", Father - Owen: "This mother told you? Give her a pipe! .."). This is a film about escaping from this loneliness.
Children-actors are very good without adults, pushing the latter, if not the third, then the fourth plan, for sure.
Since the film is an American adaptation of the novel by Jon Ivide Lindqvist, the plot is strong enough and there are significantly fewer "holes" in it, which the original scenarios suffer. The film keeps in suspense not so much a script, as a stunning atmosphere. The atmosphere of vampirism.
I do not know about you, but I very well noticed the psychological implication.