Make a Wish

I was fortunate to attend a screening of Make A Wish in LA at Outfest in the Director's Guild of America theater, it was a scream. At least we finally get a gay movie where the story stays coherent all the way through with no embarrassing stupidity like The Fluffer or the like. Everyone was dying laughing. The movie is fun to watch, a guilty gay pleasure, grab the popcorn and turn off your brain. I thought having the cast play everything so straight faced was right on, the horror clichés were not lost on the audience. I would say it is more funny than scary, but there are a couple of great scary surprises.

I thought the acting was solid. This is a very low budget feature with no B cam and a small cast, maybe that's why the other writer before me was so fooled, I guess he has never actually seen bad acting, or maybe he's too easily fooled by the usual Hollywood scene stealing and scenery chewing.

I loved how the movie veered into an incredibly weird and surreal serious climax, then ... well go see it.

I don't think the Ferranti family is fooling anyone with their IMDb voting. Most theaters advertise this one as a "lesbian slasher film". Here's the thing...there's no slashing, and the lesbians are stereotypical dykes that will have more than one self-respecting homosexual standing up and calling foul. The entire time you're sitting through the meandering plot, abysmal dialogue and wretched emoting, you're waiting for one satisfying splatter scene...which never arrives. The acting: unintentionally comical. The music: distracting and inappropriate. The ending: is like getting kicked in the head while you're unconscious. NYC theaters exhibiting this trash should be ashamed. Not "so bad it's good" but "so bad it's good to not be a Ferranti".

Make a Wish was a scream. At least we finally get a gay movie where the story stays coherent all the way through. Everyone was dying laughing. The movie is fun to watch, a guilty gay pleasure, grab the popcorn and turn off your brain. I thought having the cast play everything so straight faced was right on, the horror clichés were not lost on the audience.

I would say it is more funny than scary, but there are a couple of great scary surprises. I thought the acting was solid. This is a very low budget feature with no B cam and a small cast, maybe that's why the other writer before me was so fooled, I guess he has never actually seen bad acting, or maybe he's too easily fooled by the usual Hollywood scene stealing and scenery chewing.

I loved how the movie veered into an incredibly weird and surreal serious

climax, then ... well go see it.

Make a Wish is another variation of the typical slasher movies. The variation here is that the main characters are lesbians. It's very simple. A group of lesbian friends, lovers, exlovers go on a camping trip and one by one get picked off along with a few men that happen to be wandering around in the woods. It has some usual twists and turns and the viewer has to figure out who is doing this and why. For men that may want to watch this expecting to see a lot of hot lesbian sex scenes and lots of blood and gore, this isn't for you. This film is just like the other typical slasher movies. There are lots of kissing scenes and a few R rated sex scenes but not much. It's not a prominent part of the movie. For the blood and guts, again typical, I've certainly seen a lot more but I've also seen less. This is a low budget film but it does entertain. It's alright, not good, not bad just alright.

Just what we need--a lesbian slasher flick! A bunch of women (straight and gay) go camping to celebrate their birthdays. Most of them have slept with each other to provide "tension" to this. One by one they're picked off by an unseen killer. Who is doing it...and why? And how about the psycho that just escaped from the mental hospital?

Purportedly this is supposed to be a fun take off of horror films with lesbian sex. It does have all the clichés of slasher films but provides no humor, insight or ANYTHING to them...it's just another stupid, dull slasher film...the only twist is that it's all lesbians.

The acting is bad all around, the killings have some of the worst special effects I've ever seen, the script isn't funny or suspenseful, there are HUGE gaps in the plot and the identity of the killer is laughably predictable.

Pointless and stupid--avoid.