'Make a Wish' is a thriller directed by a lesbian and written for a lesbian audience, and is one of the first in the genre. While there are lots of humorous queer 'inside jokes' and a bevy of openly lesbian lead characters, this film disappoints by containing a cast of mostly one-dimensional clichés. The film started off with a great premise - especially true to lesbian form, where a closed-off and distant woman invites all of her exes on a camping retreat. However, even as the characters are killed off in ways that are neither interesting nor unique, we have lost interest in them, and no longer care.
Though the film is painful and somewhat amateurish, it is refreshing to see a cast of almost exclusively openly lesbian characters in a horror flick. And the clichés portrayed by the supporting characters will prove to be well known to any social lesbian.
