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Anna and Nick have weird and unsettling experiences after they hit a sheep on a country road.

Critics Reviews

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Katie Rife AV Club The film looks absolutely gorgeous, with beautiful lighting, composition, and imagery, but it's a bit too preoccupied with mind-bending atmospherics to draw any real impact. Oct 27, 2017 Full Review Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter Pays obvious dues to Hitchcock, Polanski and Lynch, but is too stylish and self-aware to fall into the trap of mere pastiche. Feb 28, 2017 Full Review Jason Adams My New Plaid Pants Animals is The Tenant gone wilding - it's the Aussie Animal Attack movie Long Weekend, but taxidermied. Jul 2, 2021 Full Review Marshall Shaffer Vague Visages Zglinski never quite finds the bridge between the bizarre and the banal. Apr 20, 2019 Full Review Joe Lipsett Queer.Horror.Movies. As the film progresses and the head injuries accumulate, the narrative(...)become increasingly convoluted and nothing is certain. Animals delights in spending time in this nebulous area, refusing simple answers about what we're seeing. Sep 21, 2018 Full Review Zhuo-Ning Su The Film Stage Animals, while overwrought with about 38 twists too many, duly entertains and dares to demand a great deal of its audience. Rated: B Aug 3, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

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Ken R Stylish above and beyond expectation this Polish oddity has no cheap handheld wobble cam to drag it down to the level of average psychological thriller & yet, average psychological thriller it ultimately is. Talented French-born Cinematographer Piotr Jaxa has a long list of shorts and documentaries on his list of achievements & at times, this one looks as if he were working for the Swiss Tourist Bureau. Piotr fills the screen with delightful eye candy views of sweeping Swiss countryside - tending to steal the show completely. Polish director Greg Zglinski is following closely the slick style his fellow countryman Roman Polanski perfected with ‘The Tennant' - along with several other movies about unhinged characters. With a bizarre script by Jorg Kalt (who curiously took his own life soon after he wrote this) the viewer is taken on a mind-bending trip into spot-the-crazy or did-it-happen-or-not territory. Problem here is with little or no relief from the mystery it can become tiresome. A lacklustre music score adds almost nothing to the mixed up goings-on and only those who enjoy a good looking - but basically going nowhere movie will be left fully awake. For a select audience only, and If you think you've worked it all out, take another look and ask yourself again. Oh, some may enjoy the strange looking talking cat that comes and goes to taunt people with some murderous suggestions. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/12/19 Full Review Audience Member Nice story, all twisted up and crazy mindbending, def worth a rewatch. Characters vibrant and they feel real and human. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Anna and Nick have weird and unsettling experiences after they hit a sheep on a country road.
Director
Greg Zglinski
Producer
Stefan Jäger, Katrin Renz
Screenwriter
Greg Zglinski, Jörg Kalt
Production Co
tellfilm, Opus Film, Coop99 Filmproduktion
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
German
Runtime
1h 35m