The Wisher (2002) User Reviews

Messy and Incoherent Plagiarism of Other Movies

[claudio_carvalho · 5/10 · 17 August 2007]

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")

"What happens next... that's what worries me." Terrible Wishmaster rip-off.

[poolandrews · 3/10 · 2 January 2006]

The Wisher starts on Mary's (Liane Balaban) birthday, she approaches her cake & it starts to ooze blood then Mary wakes up... Mary Ryan suffers from nightmares & sleepwalking, her parents Jake (Iain MacLean) & Kelly (Wendy Anderson) are worried about her & think her interest in horror films is unhealthy. The latest blockbusting horror film to fill American cinemas is The Wisher & Mary along with her friends Kara (Andrea Runge), Debbie (Siri Baruc) & Brad (Drew Lachey) decide to check it out against her father's request, Mary wishes he would 'just disappear'. Once Jake finds out that Mary has gone to see The Wisher he goes to pick her up but has a fatal car crash on the way & dies. It's now 'Six Weeks Later' & Mary decides to go back to school but gets an odd feeling & thinks she keeps seeing the Wisher from the film. While having an argument with Kara Mary wishes she would 'shut up' & within minutes Kara has her tongue cut out. Mary becomes convinced that the Wisher, or someone dressed as him, is stalking her & making her wishes come horribly true...

This Canadian production was co-executive produced & directed by Gavin Wilding & basically is terrible. The script by Ellen Cook is awful & has a striking resemblance to Wishmaster (1997). For a start it's confused, muddled & stupid. Most good horror films have a central villain to dislike & hate but The Wisher decides it doesn't need to do this & keeps the villain in the background with quick flashes & the possibility that the Wisher is in fact a figment of Mary's imagination. Mary & the Wisher never meet until the last 5 or so minutes, they never talk to each other so we never really understand his motives & the Wisher is a real rip-off of the Wishmaster as well complete with wrinkled face & hooded shawl, they even manage to rip-off Freddy Krueger as the Wisher has shards of glass attached to his fingers. What about the splices of subliminal messaging that are cut into the film & Mary discovers? Virtually nothing is made of it. The identity of the Wisher is mundane, stupid, doesn't make any sense & how do they defeat the Wisher? They download the film on their computer (they download a 200+ MB file in a matter of seconds, yeah right they must have the fastest broadband connection ever) & watch how they kill the Wisher in that, a climax trying to create tension around two people trying to download a film just doesn't work. After finding out they use it on the Wisher & it works, but if the Wisher sticks to the film so closely that he would commit suicide when asked why does he attack Brad? No mention of wishing any harm to Brad is ever made. What about the six week wait between the first & second wish? What was he doing all that time, stalking Mary's every movement until she made a wish? How did he know she would? What about when he is hit by Debbie's car & gets up completely uninjured? I mean this guy turns out to be flesh & blood so how can he walk away from being knocked over by a speeding car? I could go on & on about all the lapses in logic & plot holes but I think you get the idea.

Director Wilding gives the film a nice look & feel throughout, better than the material deserves. However the constant, film-within-a-film & annoying dream sequences just irritate. Forget about any gore or violence, a cut out tongue & a (almost bloodless) face slashing, that's it I'm afraid. No nudity either.

The Wisher is a surprisingly well made & nice looking film, it obviously had a lot of time spent on it although this means nothing when the overall film is so bad. The acting is really bad & lead star Balaban in particular is simply awful & highly annoying.

The Wisher is crap, nothing else to say really. It's well made but the film fails in so many departments that watching it is no fun. The mystery elements suck & the film is deeply unsatisfying. Give this one a miss & watch Wishmaster again instead, one to avoid & for those who have seen The Wisher I can assure you now no amount of subliminal messaging would make me want to watch it again.

At least it's marginally better than "Boogeyman".

[HumanoidOfFlesh · 3/10 · 11 July 2005]

Horror film enthusiast Mary defies her parents wishes and joins her friends to catch a glimpse of the scariest movie ever called 'The Wisher'.But five minutes into film,Mary becomes violently ill and leaves the cinema.She senses that something is wrong.Soon afterwards,someone dressed as The Wisher from the film begins to haunt Mary,stalking her and with each wish that Mary makes,The Wisher grants it,twisting it around to make it worse than what it really is."The Wisher" is an incredibly generic slasher flick that fails to generate even the slightest amount of suspense.The script is completely unoriginal and the action is rather dull.The Wisher of the title looks pretty crappy too.He's a cross between Freddy Krueger and the Creeper from "Jeepers Creepers",only with shards of glass instead of knives.The climax is awful as it doesn't make any sense at all.There is very little blood,so fans of splatter will be disappointed.So if you want to watch creepy and unsettling Canadian horror film try to find "Born for Hell" and "Rituals".Heck,even "Ginger Snaps" series is better than this turd.3 out of 10.

Not too scary, but not great

[vchimpanzee · 25 October 2005]

High school student Mary is having nightmares and sleepwalking. Since she is falling asleep during the day, a teacher sends her to counselor Campbell. He is most concerned about her sleepwalking, which is dangerous.

Mary says she enjoys being scared. In fact, she compares it to being sexually aroused. Strangely enough, we never actually see this. She seems to react to being scared the way most of us would.

Mary's best friends are Debbie and Kara. She seems perfectly normal with them, though I was expecting a more withdrawn teen like, say, Carrie. A Plain Jane (but still attractive), she wants Brad to be her boyfriend, but he prefers Mandy, who is mean and dresses like a bimbo. Mary's father Jake is overprotective and not particularly sympathetic. Her mother Kelly seems more caring, and she has a younger sister Beth who needs to be shielded from inappropriate material on TV.

The hot movie is called 'The Wisher'. It is so controversial that it is being banned by some communities because of the copycat behavior it inspires. The movie is not very good, but the teens in the theater seem to like it, and the visual effects and violence may be the redeeming quality, if there is one. Mary goes with her friends, but that may not have been such a good idea.

After the movie, Mary keeps seeing the villain from 'The Wisher', or at least someone who looks like him. And tragedies start to happen in her life when she is awake. In the process of investigating just what is going on, Mary is fortunate to be friendly with movie projectionist Shane.

I don't like movies that are too scary, and this one really wasn't most of the time. There were some creepy scenes with appropriate music (or what sounded sort of like music but seemed not of this world). The kids seemed to like alternative rock music of the style that sounds like demons, such as that used with the opening credits. But no one here was really 'goth'.

I liked Mary right away once she went into her first counseling session. I've never heard of Liane Balaban, and most of her movies appear to be Canadian-made and not familiar to Americans. But she did a capable job most of the time and I'd like to see more of her. Mary was actually a very determined character and not at all like I was expecting.

Ron Silver also did a reasonably good job. There wasn't really anything outstanding here, but for the type of movie, I found it entertaining. The town is never named, but a fire truck says 'Regina Fire Dept.', though the community is referred to as 'a small town'.

One weakness (I guess they figure we were lazy, but it could have been more realistic): I've always heard that downloading movies takes a lot of time. Someone in this film downloaded a movie on the Internet and was able to fast-forward through it and watch parts of it in the time it would take most regular web sites to appear. A little extra effort to make it look like real downloading, with some editing and frustration, wouldn't have hurt.

It was okay, but nothing spectacular.

A horror movie against horror movies ?

[Phroggy · 1/10 · 26 August 2004]

That's right ! This one keeps on reminding you how bad horror movies are for you and how they drive people crazy with all those unscrupulous directors using subliminal images and all that jazz.

Talk about hypocrisy ! Besides, it plays the supernatural angle to the hilt just to pull it out near the end - but otherwise the killer's identity would be too obvious. No-one would expect greatness from the director of "Christina's house", but this turkey crosses the treshold. Horror movies fan, avoid this one at all cost and give the people responsible the finger ! Don't bother.

Utterly Incoherent

[james_ian_miller · 5/10 · 9 August 2006]

This film looks good, I enjoyed Liane Balaban as Mary, and all is perfectly fine for most of the film, but......

*********** Many and Serious Spoilers ***********

From the beginning, this film seems geared up for the supernatural, so that the final revelation (it was Shane in a costume all the time) makes a nonsense of all that has gone before....

Okay. I'll buy the tree spelling MARY at the start – it was Shane in a tree hanging down some paper cut-outs to make a shadow, for some reason (well, he is mad). And I'll allow his unlikely plan to kill her dad - go to an intersection miles from her home, hope he's coming, and driving at speed, jump in front of the car, avoid being killed,and cause a fatal crash. He performs a similar trick later with the two girls, after presumably pressing his ear against the car window, on tenterhooks for Mary's next wish, smarting after failing to give her a winning lottery ticket or a blue gobstopper in the shop (he may have missed those wishes, although with his bionic ears that would be surprising). And I'll even allow his ability to wander around in full Wisher garb, in the background on a television report, dodging from tree to tree on the school lawn populated by hundreds of kids, outside cafes, to only be noticed by Mary……and much, much more……but why, oh why, and please somebody involved with the film or the script contact me, did the movie downloaded at the end have footage of the nutcase-only-thinks-he's-the-wisher approaching the house and attacking Mary on the lawn. Please – it's disturbing me that this could get passed the script stage, and that people do not seem to have noticed it.

I shall have to go through the DVD with my finger on the still button, looking for a frame or two craftily inserted, and designed to render the audience insensible to the incoherent plot. A lazy scriptwriter's dream.

Ludicrous b-horror movie

[PeterRoeder · 5/10 · 5 January 2004]

This movie is just so funny. It is totally, totally inept. I had expected a decent movie but after a while I realized that this movie had inept acting, dialougue, plot - everything in it was made to be wrong. However, it is very exciting, filled with details and quite intelligent actually in its own inept way. I just found out that this is the same director who made Christina´s House. This movie is WAAAAYYYYY better than Christina´s House which must be one of the worst horror movies ever (I think it got a rating around 2/10 on IMDB). Anyway, The Wisher is incredibly childish and stupid at times in an intelligent, creative way. How old is the director? 10 years or something. It´s like those horror comic scripts I made when I was that age. Moreover, the first scene, where "the father" (who looks about 5 years older than his daughter - I thought it was her boyfriend) says "What did you wish for" and eats the blood-filled (menstrual?) cake. What did she wish for? We will never know.

Bad Voodoo, Man

[yojimbo999 · 1/10 · 21 March 2004]

What a bad movie. The leading lady looks anorexic and her character is unsympathetic as to be quite foul. Add to that some dodge killings that makes no sense in regards to the movie's theme of "wishing". Not scary, not remotely entertaining, and everyone looks like they're either 25 or 35. You be the judge. Ron Silver is the only decent actor in the bunch, but that's a given.

And did I mention that the leading lady is really anorexic looking and very unattractive? You could do a better job hiring a skeleton to play the role. Sure wouldn't look all that much different.

P.S. CAn you believe 15 people gave this movie a perfect 10? Methinks 15 people from the movie production company signed up just to vote!

Awful

[Mr_Sensitive · 2/10 · 22 February 2005]

If the movie is bad, I'll say that it is bad. And here it come - "This movie is among the worst I have ever seen". What wastage of time and electricity.

The story is plagiarizing from other horror movie, such as The Wish Master and Nightmare On Elm Street into this pile of (you know).

The acting is horrible not to mention the dialogues, "I wish this, and I wish that". Tell me the truth have you ever used this phase "I wish you, shut up!!" what the hell what that? Everything is evolving around the simple word "WISH" (tell the truth, I hardly heard anyone saying this word for years).

I don't probably have to tell you who the wisher is, cause 5 min into movie you'll know, so save yourself from it.

Reason To Watch: · None

Reason Not To: · Everything in the world,

Rating: 2/10 (Grade: F)

Not Bad, But Nothing New

[gavin6942 · 5/10 · 22 October 2012]

In a small town, the teenager Mary is obsessed and addicted with horror movies. Further, she is sleepwalker, has frequent nightmares and her father has forbidden her to watch horror movies.

I have been trying to avoid films made in the last ten years, but I could not resist seeing Ron Silver, one the screen's greatest natural villains. I swear he does not even try -- he just shows up and evil fumes from his body. Maybe that was not such a good move on my part, though, as this seems to be just another average low budget horror film.

There are some decent scares and some characters who are mildly interesting, but horror fans are not likely to find something in "The Wisher" they have not already seen elsewhere.

Not the BEST Horror Film...But Good Anyway...

[ajbo · 9/10 · 7 September 2003]

I had heard a lot about this film before seeing it, saying it was a cross between Nightmare on Elm Street and Jeepers Creepers, and had mind bending twists like The Ring. So i rented it, the box of the movie didnt exactly raise my expectations for the film, but it was interesting None the less. I have to admit, those Ice-Nails were a definitly interesting touch, reminded me of Freddy's Claws, and i liked that. Anyway, onto the review:

The film is about a young girl, Mary, who is OBSESSED with Horror Films (Although by the looks of the films on her Dresser *Christina's House, Devil's Prey and The Fear: Resurrection* she isn't a very knowledgeable fan) and one night, disobeying her Father's requests to not see any more Horror Films, considering they're making her sleepwalk out into the Middle of the Road, she goes to see the film which is getting Rave Reviews, The Wisher, about five minutes into the film, Mary pukes and leaves the theater, knowing SOMETHING is wrong with that film. And soon, someone dressed as The Wisher from the film, is haunting Mary, following her, stalking her, and with each wish that Mary makes, The Wisher grants it, twisting it around to make it worse than what it really is, such as a simple "I Wish You Would Just Shut Up!" turns into a helpless girl getting her tongue cut out of her mouth...And that's only the beginning...

On the acting level, i'd have to say it was at par with other DTV films, i mean you can only go so far with a bunch of Unknowns and Drew Lachey...BUT they were all actually good. Raising the bar for DTV films, i'd have to say. Mary, did a great job as the Lead, i wouldnt say she's Big Screen material yet, but maybe, because she's pretty damn good. Drew Lachey surprised me the most, i thought he would suck, but surprisingl enough, he can actually act! I wouldnt say he's the best, but he's definitly not the worst. As for the rest of the cast including Teachers, Friends, Parents, they were alright, my only REAL problem would be the guy that Mandi was screwing around with, he was horrible, but surprisingly everyone did alright for a DTV, i was surprised.

On the Gore Factor, we had a bloody cake (Which was interesting) a few glass wounds on a young girl with a cut out tongue, a lot of glass slashings to a certain girl in a pool, some more glass slashings, and a very strange glass slashing at the end where the Killer himself is forced to grant Mary's wish of "I Wish You Would Die!" and slashes himself with the glass shards. As gory and bloody as this all sounds, the majority of it is offscreen, and then shown, but there's a lot of blood spatter, i know that much.

Overall the film was pretty good, i wouldnt mind buying it, because it's not terrible. It surprised me, so would i recommend it? Yes, buy it? Depends on it you liked it that much, i for one wouldnt mind buying it, a pretty decent film. I give Spliced an 8/10, i LOVED the ending.

Quick Reviews!!

[malkane316 · 7/10 · 26 April 2005]

Another cheap horror movie which borrows heavily from both big and cult hits of the genre, but one which manages to be quite enjoyable even if we have seen it all before. There are some good performances, some not so good, a few typical scares and jokes(some which work, some which don't), a fair amount of blood, a simple but well executed story, and quite a creepy bad guy. Probably not worth searching for, but worth watching if it is on TV, especially if you are a horror fan.

Mary is a teenage girl with a love for horror movies, always searching for the next scare. When she hears about a new film called The Wisher which has been getting good reviews from terrified audiences, her and her friends go to see it, against her father's wishes. Mary has a habit of sleepwalking which her father believes is caused by all the rubbish she watches. A short time into the movie, Mary vomits and leaves knowing the film is too much for her. After an argument with her father she wishes he would just go away. Soon her father is dead, and Mary believes she keeps seeing the Wisher creature from the movie. She becomes paranoid and after a few more gory events related to what she has innocently wished for, she believes that The Wisher, or someone dressed up as him is stalking her, obsessively carrying out her wishes in the worst way possible. She finds out that the film makers imbued the film with subliminal messages, and thinks that school hunk Brad, who likes her, has been hypnotised by the film. She tries to find a way to reverse the process, planning to watch the film to see how it ended. The Wisher is on to her plan though...

Although everything is pretty predictable there is still enough fun to warrant watching this. There is some cheesy dialogue and effects, and you would think that once you believed that your wishes were coming true you would immediately wish for The Wisher to leave. Liane Balaban is very good as Mary, at times carrying the film on her own, and Ron Silver is good though seems uninterested in a smaller role. The rest of the cast are OK, but the film is quick and never tries to over-achieve. The Wisher itself does look scarier than your typical cheap horror movie bad guy, and the director's best moments are when the Wisher is stalking in the shadows or on reflections. There is not much heavy violence and nothing is over-the-top. Give it a go if it's on, but do not expect a masterpiece, just a quick piece of entertainment.

7 out of 10

I wish Melissa Repka's scenes were spliced into a much better movie

[movieman_kev · 2/10 · 24 July 2008]

Horror loving, sleepwalking teen. Mary (Liane Balaban) begins to see the serial killer from the latest horror flick she's seen, "The Wisher" in her every day life. When her friends start getting sliced and diced, it's up to her to put a stop to the monster. But is it all in her head, something supernatural, or something a tad more mundane?

This Canadian film is pretty highly derivative of "Nightmare on Elm Street", alas star Balaban is just not in the same league as Heather Langenkamp and the main 'baddie' is definitely no Robert Englund. As such this film becomes a chore to sit through. Strictly technically speaking it's an all right movie (it's shot adequately) But it's mundane, derivative, lame storyline sinks the film.

Eye Candy: Melissa Repka gets topless

My Grade: D

I was in this movie, and it blows!!!

[urbanmessiah · 4 August 2003]

Hi, well i was in this movie, you might notice me as the texas teen killer, and also the nevada killer ( or whatever the hell the other guy was ) and I also was the set dresser for this film. I hate it, it blows. Rent this flick only to laugh at it and marvel at the incompetance of Gavin Wilding. This movie suck a lot, a whole lot.

"I read all about it on the 'net!"

[udar55 · 3/10 · 3 June 2022]

Watched this film recently because, well, I have no taste. Semi-interesting premise with a girl into horror movies who gets stalked by a supernatural killer from a movie called The Wisher. The specific lore here is the killer is a wood nymph that grants your wishes (WISHMASTERploitation?). It was just so-so. The big takeaway for me though is I don't think I've seen any era age worse than the late 1990s/early 2000s. The songs laid on the soundtracks are terrible, always sounding like either 311, Blink182 or No Doubt. The fashions are quite noticeable. And everything is shot with all the style of a Friends episode. But worst of all is filmmakers desire to work the internet into literally everything. Now in this film it is a (hilarious) plot point where the lead girl tries to download the film to find out how to kill The Wisher (the 200mb file keeps buffering...the horror, the horror!). But there are so many shoehorned in lines: "I read all about it on the net." "It is a rage all over the web!" "We need to get to an internet cafe!" It sticks out like a sore thumb. I'm glad '80s movies (even the worst ones) never hammered audiences with "I need to get home to play my Atari", "I have to get home to watch my MTV" or "Sheriff, it's called a Walkman" (a horrible sin from Super 8). Just a weird observation that I had to rant about on the net. *blasts 311's "Down" while slipping on my JNCO jeans*

I wish it had been better though I have seen far worse

[Stevieboy666 · 4/10 · 10 April 2022]

Eighteen year old Mary (Liane Balaban) loves horror movies, she also suffers from nightmares and sleepwalking. Dad has forbidden her to watch any more horror films but along with her two fellow geekyish friends she goes to watch the horror hit "The Wisher" at the cinema. The killer from the film starts appearing in real life and one by one people around her start getting sliced up! Nightmare on Elm Street is an obvious influence here, not only for the dream sequences but also the killer (the Wisher) has finger blades with which to slash, though oddly they look like they are made of glass. The Wisher himself just looks like some guy from a Black Metal band. Only one recognisable actor here, Ron Silver, the rest of the cast are quite wooden, including Balaban, the poor script only worsens things. Another problem is that the plot can't decide whether this is a supernatural or psycho slasher, the ending is a bit sorry. Mary says "I like the feeling of being scared", sadly there is very little scare factor on offer here. I watched the UK VHS release "The Wisher", which I feel is a better title than "Spliced". Overall I found the movie rather lame but not a complete waste of time, there are many worse horror movies out there! The gorgeous Melissa Repka strips off down to her undies, worth the price of admission alone!

Rated C, for Crap

[captaincameron · 1/10 · 27 May 2012]

I'll start with the spoiler first: Girl has some sort of psychic connection with horror movies and after a few contrived scenes, she develops the ability to say "I wish" XXX would happen, and then it does. I wish she had made the wish for me to not spend my time on this terrible, terrible, terrible flick. Don't get me wrong--I am a fan of bad horror flicks. I am not a fan of this one. But, to be honest, I only made it halfway through. I had the movie on in the background while I was working. Perhaps during the second half of the movie, Wisher/Spliced became the Citizen Kane of B-horror films. But I doubt it. Citizen Kane had the suspense til the end; we found out that Rosebud was a sled. There's no suspense til the end of this movie; you'll find out that it sucks rocks early on.

The Wisher - I wish this movie was never made

[drdeathforpresident · 1/10 · 7 December 2012]

I tried; I REALLY REALLY tried to give this film a chance. In fact, I gave it three attempts and in all those times I could not finish this. The lead actress is a paranoid whiner. I just want to duct tape her mouth. Her friends have no personality. They are extremely dull. The wisher looks like a reject from a death metal band. Her dad is some sort of psychotic John McEnroe type. I DID WISH he would take a hike. There is no saving grace. Don't waste your time. If you do, don't come crying to me. Trust me, you have been warned. On the other side of the coin, if you like self torture and movies that suck with actors that cannot act (except for Ron Silver)than I do recommended this highly.

I will wish that....

[sitisapura · 4/10 · 12 June 2005]

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.

Fairly Good

[minkmankser · 7/10 · 10 October 2006]

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.

Bad.

[bombersflyup · 1/10 · 21 January 2020]

The Wisher is one of the worst films I've ever seen, that I've completed.

Liane Balaban's okay, the character's just manic, never settled and the supporting performances are terrible. Them trying to stop the Wisher's laughable. We saw the part of the film inside the film that tells you what to do already, yet they don't remember it. They look to download the film trying to see the end and choose part one... the hell? and after all the weird occurrences it's not even supernatural? I assume it is still and this guy's a failed imitator, because he failed to kill Brad and failed to kill himself and he couldn't of known all these wishes and be able to catch them and jump in front of a car etc. and the Wisher standing out in the street as the little sister watches it on television. Which is pretty much no ending, it's all so stupid and immature, ugh.

A surprise

[mandy_mcwilliams · 9/10 · 16 July 2003]

Now I must admit I originally rented it for the role played by Drew Lachey. I figured it was going to be just another cheap horror flick. I don't know whether it was being in a strange house or the odd sounds we were hearing throughout the movie but it did leave us in suspense and did scare us a few times.

The movie is a movie within itself. I had my guess of who was behind it, and I did guess correctly. But it had a lot of good quality scenes in it and I do recommend this.

Corny teen urban myth movie

[robertemerald · 6/10 · 31 January 2020]

The Wisher was corny. The script was pretty ordinary. The story, however, was pretty good. Certainly the soundtrack was energetically creepy, I thought overly so, which tended to kill tension rather than build it, but then again, this movie is nearly 20 years old and perhaps I'm just reacting to what is old fashioned now. The Director tried all sorts of camera angles and techniques, which was OK, but he needed to be building up the spook with cinematography and lighting. There's a monster here, but he's not given enough chills. This is an OK teen movie, and it had some very decent ideas behind it. I think The Wisher was only ever intended for a teen audience, and, indeed, I think it does capture something of its day in that regard.

Scariest part of Film

[rouhayley · 2/10 · 3 August 2003]

First off look at the poster for the film and tell me..........where exactly is the church and the bolt of lightning in the film? No I never saw it ever. The film is supposed to be a "Horror Movie"...........so it does have the stereotypical horror movie techniques but I wouldn't go too far. The acting is abysmal....you simply don't use pop stars who clearly can't act (sorry if you liked his acting) in films. I deeply feel that the scariest part of the film had to be the little girl.........as though she was a grouchy.....spooky old woman trapped in a child's body...........definitly not normal.

The film is fine for people that wish to laugh at a truly terrible horror film.

ENJOY

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