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To the reviewer who gave this film 1/10 because you disagreed with the morality of choices made by the characters: are we serious right now? Transfer is obviously meant to be an imperfect world, wherein difficult and sometimes amoral choices are made. Would you kill someone to save your life partner? In the end it doesn't matter, because I'm not writing a review about you. You call it modern slavery? I can call Gataca modern eugenics, that doesn't mean it deserves 1/10.

That out of the way: transfer is a good film with tight sound design and crisp shooting, pulled together with the kind of style we've come to expect from modern sci-fi like Ex Machina. The story is engaging, as well as being controversial and even sometimes bizarre. Unfortunately, the ending fails to tie everything together in a satisfying manner, leaving the cute and happy romance bubble burst in the last few minutes of the film. That aside, transfer is by no means a bad film. I give it a 7.5/10 on its own merits alone. The 10/10 is to help offset the horrid 1/10 I don't feel it deserved.

A movie best watched with the lights off, Creep provides real terror in a market flooded with cheap thrills and jump scares. Admittedly, I would have given it a 7.8 or higher on its own merits, but it seemed unfair to allow it's reputation to suffer under the criticisms of those who don't appreciate Creep's subtle charms. Creep is not boring, it is slow burning. It is not dull, it merely relies on more refined (and effective) techniques than jump scares. Almost beginning to end, Creep gave me the feeling of dread I only rarely find in most other horrors; that feeling of real fear and creeping terror that is the guilty pleasure of any horror fanatic. Do yourself a favor and rent Creep (available at Eyesore Cinema for all you Torontonians), then turn off all your lights, turn off your phone, and watch it all in one sitting. It will not disappointment.