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16-year old Marie lives on a small island with her seriously ill mother and her father, who takes care of the family. But suddenly mysterious deaths happen and Marie can feel something strange happening to her body.
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| Electric SheepMark StaffordClassy, smart stuff, and a promising debut from director Jonas Alexander Arnby. |
| The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicIt’s a narrative vacuum big enough to make you mad at this melancholy werewolf drama for not being, at the very least, good. |
| New York PostSara StewartCasting aside warnings and physical threats from the townspeople, this once-demure teen girl embraces her wild side with a gory, punk-rock abandon. |
| SciFiNowJonathan HatfullAs a chilly tale of a young woman striving to escape her family and her claustrophobic small town, it succeeds on its own merits. |
| New York TimesA.O. ScottWhen Animals Dream is a beguiling parable of cruelty and the resistance to it. Its special effects are pretty minimal, its scope is modest, and it is, in the end, more touching than terrifying, intent on jolting its audience not with dread but with compassion. |
| The Film StageAmanda WaltzA Danish export with a surprisingly tender take on the werewolf myth. |
| CinemalogueTodd JorgensonA haunting atmosphere drives this subversive Danish thriller that generates some modest frights without relying on gratuitous gore. |
| Paste MagazineRoss BonaimeWhen 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. |
| Village VoiceNick SchagerAvoiding the genre's typical werewolfism-as-puberty metaphors, director Jonas Alexander Arnby instead casts his material as a drawn-out character study — the problem being that his characters are all one-note dullards, which turns his slow, portent-heavy drama into a giant slog. |
| The Blue LensesAlexandra Heller-NicholasWhen 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. |