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

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

| 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

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