2014 ‘Når dyrene drømmer’ Directed by Jonas Alexander Arnby
The young woman, Marie, is an outsider in the small coastal community where she has grown up. The townspeople live in fear of her and not least her mother, who is wheelchair bound, suffering from a mysterious illness. When Marie discovers her body changing – long hair growing on her chest and back – she begins searching for answers concerning her family’s hidden past. Something that will have great consequences for herself and her family – and the choices she has to make.
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If you want to know what a less interesting and skillful Let the Right One In looks like, this is it. I don't really want to compare these two, but the similarities are much too obvious not to.
The main problem with this is that it lacks the subtlety, ambiguity and charm of the former. In When Animals Dream everything is very one sided. The plot, the characters, and their development. There are good guys, and there are bad guys. It's made very clear which are which and none deviate from their set path or seem to have a mind of their own. Not once are we allowed to decide who we want to side with. This is force fed…
Horror Hunt #30 (December 2020)
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I should like this way more because it just really nails that melancholic kitchen sink realism that for whatever reason seem perfectly fit for a Scandinavian setting. Perhaps the most haunting aspect was how they perfectly captured the casual morbidity that appear when a family member falls ill. It is the real world without any flashy special effects, just the hopeless mediocrity of the common day.
So Marie is the depressed main character here, a hopeless teenager trapped in a Danish seaside town who has to juggle the traumas of a hostile workplace, a terminally ill mother and also, the evolving state of lycanthropy. It has been said before but it…
So minimal it's like anti-matter. A little too unrequited for my taste. At it's best is a supernatural 'Match Factory Girl', at it's worst is like watching paint dry on the set of 'Ginger Snaps'. Never connects or fully takes shape. Yet it still seems like an ok film? It must be because I haven't seem enough Danish horror. My interest is piqued but I know that there are better examples.
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"Ich verwandle mich gerade in ein Monster und muss sehen das ich vorher... möglichst viel Sex kriege. Kannst du mir dabei helfen?"
"When Animals Dream" reiht sich nun in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft, bestehend aus "Raw", "Ginger Snaps" und "Let the right One in" ein, die sich mit dem Thema der animalischen Verwandlung im noch recht jungen Alter etwas anders auseinandersetzt...
Jonas Alexander Arnby schuf 2014 ein kleines, leises, dänisches Stück Coming-of-Age-Horror, das einem mit seiner speziellen Bearbeitung des Themas schon gerne mal das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lassen kann.
Ein Film, der vor allem durch seine extrem kühle Atmosphäre und…
There is something about the Scandinavian scenery that just makes it perfect for horror, and When Animals Dream utilises its setting's natural eerieness to great effect.
Taking its visual cues from modern Scandi-noir, and filtering its horror through the existential lens of Bergman and the coming of age feel of Let the Right One In, Jonas Alexander Arnby's film is a low-key somber werewolf tale.
Young Marie is becoming aware of her sexuality, and is also developing a rash accompanied by thick, dark hair. This appears to have some link with her mother's (Sonia Richter) debilitating, paralysing illness. Above this, there seems to be some unspoken collusion between her father (Lars Mikkelson) and the family doctor.
It is a sweet…
A Danish low key drama that contains elements of a mystery, family drama, coming of age story and just happens to also be a horror film. I dig films like this completely. Writer/director Jonas Alexander Arnby uses the horror elements as a means to tell a dramatic story and doesn't just do horror for the sake of horror.
It's a slow burning drama with great characters and a great young lead in Sonia Suhl who I think is making her film debut as well. She has a quiet intensity that is perfect for this role and movie as a whole. The comparisons to Ginger Snaps will give you an obvious idea what this film is really about, but it's a different beast in that it's a much more dramatic film really.
how to gut fish, live in a beautiful and unforgiving place, dance to electro-pop-whatever in slow-motion (www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRRVaENNtAg), make a sacred hiding spot out of something dirty & forgotten, solve the mystery of yourself, and love someone when they are at their most unlovable.
The Danish-language horror film, "Når dyrene drømmer" ("When Animals Dream"), is a stirring, effective chiller that combines superficial thrills with coming-of-age allegory. Directed by Jonas Alexander Arnby, the film is subtle and contemplative but boasts a collection of sturdy jolts.
Unfolding in the sea-swept environs of Denmark, "Når dyrene drømmer" focuses on Marie, a young woman who tends to her wheelchair-bound mother and habitually worried, doting father. The family has a secret, and, as Marie gets older, the secret begins to manifest in dangerous ways.
On the surface, "Når dyrene drømmer" is a monster movie observing the physical and deadly transformation visited upon its characters. Deeper, the film can be seen as allegory reflecting the moments of change as child…
Low on dialogue, high on atmosphere, this Danish werewolf film could almost be described as an 'ambient horror'. Beautiful visuals and an excellent score, possibly a little style-over-substance, but a thoroughly enjoyable experience nonetheless.
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Dark, dreary, depressing, sad, but with some truly gorgeous locations/music/filming styles. Danish werewolf movie/coming of age film that doesn't have much gore or much in the way of transformation scenes, but if you let yourself go and immerse yourself in the world, you won't care about the lack of blood.
Dead by Dawn 2015.
Interesting take on the werewolf sub genre, this Danish movie stars Sonia Suhl as Marie, a young girl growing up in a small fishing village, her mother (Sonja Richter) has some sort of illness that confines her to a wheelchair and means she has to be kept sedated in an almost catatonic state. As Marie moves into her late teenage years she too starts to experience strange symptoms and its fairly obvious some sort of change is coming..........
This is a beautifully shot drama and until the last 30 minutes or so is more of a slow building coming-of-age film than a horror film. Debut director Jonas Alexander Arnby gives his film an almost ethereal quality,…
