10 Best Coming Of Age Horror Movies

Wolves are usually a male thing, right? When we see werewolves in media, it's usually some clumsy metaphor for men's testosterone-fuelled hyper-masculine inclination to violence (Ginger Snaps being the main exception, of course). That, but also usually sanitised so it's sexy and appealing. Do we have Twilight to blame for that? Not fully, but Stephanie Mayer still isn't getting off scot free.

When Animals Dream takes this idea of the werewolf and turns it on its head, following a young girl in a remote Danish town struggling with her unexplained physical and emotional changes.

If I were to remove the word 'werewolf' I would simply be describing any awkward teen chick-flick about how hard puberty is, so it's clear that this film is at least equal parts coming of age and horror. And maybe for a lot of girls those are the same thing.

Not for the anti-woke crowds, the film is overt with its criticism of small-town misogyny and men's constant attempts to control women's bodies. Where werewolves are a display of unchecked rage and brutalism, playing that against the assumptions of women as the fairer, softer sex creates a really interesting dynamic.