LESBIANS CAN BE SLASHERS TOO
Robert F. Powers | Quincy, Ma USA | 09/10/2006
(2 out of 5 stars)
"Make a Wish is essentially Friday the 13th with lesbians. Susan invites her exes who either cheated on or dumped her on a camping trip. Not exactly a wise move on the part of the dumpers. But it's Susans birthday so they go to help her blow out her candles and Make a Wish. One of the friends is a reformed lesbian who now has a male lover, but since she tongue kisses the other lesbians her reformation was short-lived as is soon her life. one hilarious scene shows two of the "girls" having a heavy make-out session in a tent. Outside that same tent she is flat as a pancake but once inside, in an artsy close-up she suddenly makes Dolly Parton look flat-chested.
the kill scenes are fairly mild and hardly convincing but picture quality is pretty good since most of the scenes were shot in a woodsy setting on a bright sunny day.
Since the movie is really junk I gave it two stars just for the novelty of seeing a bunch of dykes hanging round a campfire hitching their jeans, having some brewskis, swearing like sailors just as one might expect a bunch of men would do.
Since the "gals" got their slasher movie I am awaiting the release of "Cut My Throat on Brokeback Mountain"."
A clever, hilarious spin on horror and lesbian drama
queer movie lover | 08/04/2005
(3 out of 5 stars)
"This is lesbian drama to the extreme, and it's hilarious. Imagine a group of lesbian ex's and their current lovers going camping ofr a weekend. You all know the inevitable: drama! Only in "Make a Wish" the drama turns in to a murder mystery and campire chatter and steamy tent-hopping action leave not only broken hearts but disappearing people.
It's Susan's birthday, and she invites all of her exes and their girlfriends for an annual camping weekend. Attempting to leave behind inhibitions, jealous boyfriends, men in general, and heartbreaks of the past, the group ventures into the unknown -- the unknown woods and the unknown truth. And most of them never get out.
A mocking horror story of lesbian drama, you'll like it even if horror movies are not your thing. And you'll definitely laugh at some choice one-liners and at the undeniable possibility that dyke drama is really this crazy!
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