What You Wish For

Ryan is a gifted chef whose gambling debts have left him desperate, so he leaves the United States for a villa in Latin America to visit Jack, an old friend from culinary school who seems to be thriving as a private chef for wealthy clients. Ryan cannot understand how Jack affords such a life, and his envy of it grows. A grim turn of events soon gives Ryan the chance to step into Jack's position, and he takes it, hoping to solve his financial problems. What he finds instead is that the arrangement comes with obligations he did not expect.

The film is a horror thriller directed, written and produced by Nicholas Tomnay. It is his second feature, arriving fourteen years after his debut, The Perfect Host. Nick Stahl plays Ryan, with Brian Groh as Jack, Tamsin Topolski as Imogene, Penelope Mitchell as Alice, Randy Vasquez as Detective Ruiz and Juan Carlos Messier as Maurice among a credited cast of twenty-one. It was shot as a co-production between Colombia and the United States.

Released in May 2024 and running 102 minutes, the film drew a critics' rating of 7.3/10 from 36 reviews, slightly above its audience scores of 6.7/10 on IMDb from around 12,000 votes and 6.9/10 on TMDB from a much smaller sample.