The Wisher (2002)

In a small town, the teenager Mary (Liane Balaban) is obsessed and addicted with horror movies. Further, she is sleepwalker, has frequent nightmares and her father has forbidden her to watch horror movies. However, when the top at the box office "The Wisher" is screened in her town, she goes to the movie theater with her two best friends, Debbie (Siri Baruc) and Kara (Andrea Runge), and leaves the session before the end, vomiting and impressed with the scary story. Mary notes that her wishes comes true wounding people and she sees the character The Wisher stalking her everywhere."The Wisher" is a messy and incoherent plagiarism of other horror movies, mainly "The WIshemaster", "Nightmare on Elm Street", "Swimfan" and "Scream", blended with the exposition of the beautiful naked body of Melissa Repka. The result is a movie that begins with a supernatural story, but with an awful conclusion where the killer is a deranged and humiliated student. Therefore, most of the situations become unreasonable, like for example, the death of Mary's father in a car accident. Anyway, this forgettable movie entertains and in the lack of a better option, is watchable. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): "The Wisher – Desejos Mortais" ("The Wisher – Mortal Wishes")

The first time i watched The Wisher was when i was 10. I was at home watching it by myself. No offense but i have seen more frightening movies before that. Im now 12 turning 13 in December but i still like the movie. I classify this movie as one of my favourites with: Underworld, Underworld 2, Vanhelsing, Cursed and many other movies Alian 1 - 3 are kind of my favorites but they aren't scary either. I started watching "scary" movies when i was fairly little and still like watching them. I gave The Wisher seven out of ten because it is fairly good and a bit surprising but is not perfect. Plus i never say anything is perfect because there is normally always something better. The person who was the wisher was kind of surprising but the director put in a bit too many clues like when the girl said "i wish she knew how pretty she really isn't" or something like that it was kind of obvious when the guy said "who". Otherwise it was OK.

This is the sort of horror movie made by people who've either seen EVERY horror movie ever made, or have NEVER seen one in their lives. Spliced (aka The Wisher), is derivative of the best (but mostly the worst) bits of at least a dozen 80's slasher flicks. Mary (the heroine) is a medication-popping, horror movie junkie who has nightmares, is prone to sleep-walking and gets sent to the school counselor. Oh yeah, the other kids don't like her much either. The Wisher (the killer) is a hood-robed, pasty-faced, horror movie cliché with glass finger-knives. Is the killer a real person, is he a supernatural entity or is he just in Mary's head? The film throws so many "twists" and red herrings at the viewer that you just know the final explanation won't make any logical sense. When the BEST thing about a film is Drew Lachey (Nick's brother) as the pseudo-creepy wannabe boyfriend, you know you're in trouble!

The story line is this movie is pretty straight-forward. Nothing that you would get lost in, or gets too terribly twisted. However, what I am wondering is why is that girl (Mary) is always in the same type of nightie and always wear that lacy camisole. And I noted (dear director and producer) that she is always bra-less. C'mon did you all have to stoop so low to sell the movie? Not that she is well endowed or shows any of it... but was that intentional to draw an audience? The acting is not superb but considering a young cast, but the scenes is pretty boring throughout. Story drags on to kill time in many areas. And the computer download scene of 200MB 3-part video downloads in like 3 seconds? Supporting cast roles are minimal. If there is one thing an audience will learn, it's not about wishing. It's about subliminal messages and no, it's just not about embedded logos or symbols. It can be sounds too.