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When Animals Dream

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Year: 2014 Runtime: 84 min. Director: Jonas Alexander Arnby Country: Denmark, France

Description

When Animals Dream. But what do they dream about?

In a secluded fishing village lives a girl named Marie. She works at a fish processing plant where her colleagues regularly bully her, and she lives under the weight of her mother’s illness. Perhaps everything would have stayed the same — if not for a series of strange deaths in her village.

At the same time, Marie notices that something is happening to her body, and her mind is flooded with previously unknown feelings.
What is it? Coming of age? Mutation? Rebirth? Transformation? Or something else?

This is arthouse horror, not a mainstream werewolf film. More precisely, it’s a social horror thriller that’s more about atmosphere and subtext than the desire to scare.

For fans of Scandinavian horror and unusual stories — not just about werewolves and the struggles of teenage life — this is a must-watch.