Wishcraft
A teen horror flick that's a step above its peers,Wishcraftfuses  a slasher movie with a "be careful what you wish for" story line. Bret  (Michael Weston), a smart but unsociable high school kid, receives a  strange box in the mail. A note tells him the contents will give him three  wishes; naturally, he wishes for a date with a cheerleader (Alexandra  Holden) he has a crush on. His wish comes true--but just as his new life  is beginning, someone is murdering the popular kids in strange, inventive  ways.Wishcraftisn't novel or surprising, but what's unusual is  how well written, smartly directed, and solidly acted the movie is. The  dialogue sounds genuine; the characters have more than one dimension;  clichés are kept to a minimum. It won't win any awards, but if all  B movies were this good, we'd be living in a much more entertaining world.--Bret Fetzer