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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.

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 She seems perfectly normal with them, though I was expecting a more withdrawn teen like, say, Carrie.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.

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.

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.

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!

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)

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.

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.

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*

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.

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

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.

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.

A pretty silly and badly-acted horror flick that is stealing generously from other cult hits of the genre. Ron Silver is OK in this movie and the only one except Liane Balaban who have some acting capability but he seems uninterested in a minor role.

Everything in the movie is very predictable there are still some highlights that makes the movie worth watching. Saving the movie from rock-bottom is some nice gore, a quite creepy bad guy and of course gorgeous Liane Balaban's extremely hot body! She is also bra-less throughout the entire movie which is totally awesome. Some other nice babes and boobs also adding to the viewing pleasure.

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.

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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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.

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.

Mary (Liane Balaban) loves horror movies. She is sleepwalking and her father forbids her to watch them. "The Wisher" is a big horror movie and Mary goes to see it with her friends, Debbie and Kara. She gets sick before finishing. A man dressed as The Wisher causes Mary's father to crash his car and die. After more of her offhanded wishes come true, she suspects that Brad (Drew Lachey) is the Wisher. He seems to be hanging around her a lot. Campbell (Ron Silver) is the school counselor trying to help her.

This is a poor horror effort. It's not completely unredeemable but it's not good. The idea is nothing new. There is one big explosive car stunt. The kills are not that good. Nothing is scary. The Wisher isn't that scary. The acting skills are limited except for Balaban and Silver. The final resolution is nothing special and seems like the obvious thing to do right away. That's why there is no tension in the plot at all. The final option should have been the first option.