Ever since the death of their father (Matthew Ninaber), Joshua (Jeremy Ninaber) has been in charge of his twin sister Emma (Melissa Joy Boerger), but she has some special supernatural abilities that not only make her a threat to others but might also attract the attention of all sorts of agencies, government and otherwise. At long last, Joshua decides to put her in an asylum, and pays hush money to a orderly, Doug (Ethan Mitchell) - but that doesn't go well when several patients try to commit suicide spontaneously, which of course was Emma's doing. So Joshua accepts the help of a renegade doctor, Malcolm (Aaron Tomlin), and hides Emma away in hid dad's bomb shelter. And everything goes well for a while - sure, Joshua has to make money in illegal and secret prize fights, but at least that's something he gets a kick out of, and he even finds a girlfriend in Amanda (Jehan Hashim). Thing is, Malcolm hasn't come to Joshua to cure Emma's powers as he promised, but to set them free and cultivate them, so he feeds her with (mostly false) information that's bound to infuriate her, until she unleashes her anger in an outburst  of all she has got - which is pretty much, which makes this a plan bound to end in chaos ...

Without ever actively touching that genre, Transference is pretty much the dark side of a superhero flick, a film that doesn't celebrate but question superpowers, and that puts a philosophical rather than spectacle-prone spin on things. But that's not to say Transference is a brain-heavy meditation on the theme at all, there's still plenty of action, the movie's strong on atmosphere, and it's got a nice mystery feel to it that keeps one guessing throughout. And of course interesting and relatable characters embodied by a very able cast don't hurt one bit either to turn this into very enjoyable genre entertainment.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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