What You Wish For

What You Wish For

2024 · 102 min · EN · R · 6.9 (200 votes)
Dir. Nicholas Tomnay · Starring Nick Stahl, Tamsin Topolski, Randy Vasquez, Penelope Mitchell, Brian Groh, Juan Carlos Messier · Music Jeff Russo

“Escape. Forever.”

Thriller

A talented chef with gambling woes flees to a Latin American villa to visit an old friend who appears to be living an extraordinary life as a private chef. Envy soon turns to greed and then to something deeply unsettling for the chef when he assumes his friend's life and discovers the motives of his mysterious clients.

VIBE

This film simmers with an elegant, unsettling dread, slowly pulling you into a world where desire curdles into something truly monstrous. It's a sophisticated psychological descent, exploring the dark corners of ambition and the chilling cost of assuming another's life, all wrapped in a veneer of opulent suspense.

tenseunsettlingmorally ambiguoussophisticateddread-soakedslow-burnpsychological thrillergourmet horrordarkly elegantsuspensefulidentity theftmoral compromisegreedculinary horror
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