drdeathforpresident 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.

James Miller 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.

ads163 It was just yesterday that I saw the film. I do acknowledge the fact that English movies do contain the "chill element", but "The wisher", could not chill, except for its sudden appearances. The question which arises is - do these movies really bring out the fear in us, or are we subjected to emotions which are otherwise dormant. I certainly as a sane person, do not see somebody slashing me in a weird dress and running away in broad daylight.Horror was Rebecca.. it made a shiver run up Ur spine. The Wisher can and does give its scary moments, all thanks to the camera-work, and the sudden moments of suspense created by the director.The bottomline - the film could have been much better.

KHayes666 You know, when 3/4 of the females are hot in a movie, you can overlook the horrible plot and be entertained by the women alone....but in this movie the stench of the plot is too horrible to overcome.The overall plot completely rips off The Wishmaster and tries to rip off Nightmare on Elm Street. It seems the movie was made in two parts, the first part dealt with the main character sleepwalking and the second half was about the main character getting chased by a weird demon.By the end, the plot was so unbearable and nobody died. A lot of people were hacked by the monster but no one died, what is with that? The monster in the end was played by the young caddy from Happy Gilmore.Think about that, a singer from 98 Degrees saved a girl from the young caddy from Happy Gilmore. Horror has hit rock bottom 4 out of 10 for cute girls but the rest was horrible.