When Animals Dream has all the markings of a first film, but there's enough going on to make it a memorable and important entry in the intriguing, complex werewolf subgenre.

| Aug 25, 2018

Danish horror thriller When Animals Dream (Nr dyrene drmmer) takes a brooding art-house approach for [its] dark coming-of-age story, but given that the mood here is more dull than eerie, a touch of schlocky exploitation might not have gone amiss.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 10, 2016

A Danish export with a surprisingly tender take on the werewolf myth.

| Original Score: B | Feb 21, 2016

Its narrative vacuum is big enough to make you mad at this melancholy werewolf drama for not being, at the very least, good.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 5, 2015

A haunting atmosphere drives this subversive Danish thriller that generates some modest frights without relying on gratuitous gore.

| Sep 2, 2015

When Animals Dream lingers a bit longer than it should, but an intense finish ensures that horror fans will enjoy this coming-of-age tale - if they've stuck around to see the end.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 31, 2015

When Animals Sleep attempts to link lycanthropy with the horrors inherent in becoming an adult -- but that's the only surprise its meandering plot can muster.

| Original Score: 5.6/10 | Aug 28, 2015

Mr. Arnby knows all the genre codes, and how to subvert them when necessary.

| Aug 27, 2015

Danish director Jonas Alexander Arnby makes his feature debut with an understated, contemplative coming-of-age drama...with werewolves.

| Aug 27, 2015

When Animals Dream congeals its influences into something intimate, intelligent, and occasionally quite haunting.

| Original Score: B | Aug 27, 2015

An eerie, imported horror tale that's rich with tone but otherwise lacking bite.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 26, 2015

Joining the indie monster-girl genre alongside "Ginger Snaps," "Teeth" and "Let the Right One In" is this melancholy Danish werewolf tale from debut director Jonas Alexander Arnby.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2015

Lycanthropy has rarely been more lethargic than in When Animals Dream, a dreamy Danish import about a young girl who responds to the discovery that she's a werewolf by pouting and brooding a lot.

| Aug 25, 2015

The film is one long funereal slog in which the main character discovers something about herself that's almost immediately apparent.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 23, 2015

As a chilly tale of a young woman striving to escape her family and her claustrophobic small town, it succeeds on its own merits.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2015

Classy, smart stuff, and a promising debut from director Jonas Alexander Arnby.

| Nov 21, 2014

A social-realist werewolf fantasy in which burgeoning womanhood is a thing terrifying to many a man, particularly if a woman simply will not be tamed.

| Nov 10, 2014

Riffing on Carrie (1976) and Ginger Snaps (2000), and set almost entirely in wintry fog and mist, Jonas Alexander Arnby's film depicts a young woman embracing the monstrous feminine even as she is confronted by smalltown fear and prejudice.

| Nov 4, 2014

This polished Danish thriller about a sensitive female werewolf is full of restrained horror and tastefully Scandinavian carnage.

| Aug 7, 2014

Director Jonas Alexander Arnby has made another excellent contribution to Denmark's soft parade of horror.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 7, 2014