Review of The Dark

I say kind of because although in many ways this is an original take on the 'undead', there was something of 'Let the right one in' about it. But if this was deliberate, than it was a good thing..a very worthy tribute to a great film. If it wasn't deliberate, even better. Anyway, I was engrossed. And I felt much empathy for the characters, especially the girl, even while I found aspects of her killings difficult. She was a complicated character. There was all kinds of horror in this and it wasn't all about blood and gore type horror either. The horror of betrayal, the horror of extreme trauma, the horror of criminal and brutal human violence, the horror of innocents who get caught in the cyclone of desperation or callousness of others. There is gore, but It's not central to the power of this horror film. The sense of isolation even from one's self is. It is also really an analogy. And I think the ending is possibly a twist. Watch and decide for yourself.