`WISHMASTER' IS NO `ELM STREET'.(Entertainment)(Review) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: September 20, 1997 | COPYRIGHT 1997 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Along with plastic pumpkins and piles of candy corn, the advent of autumn has coughed up another harbinger of Halloween in the form of ``Wishmaster,'' which is equally hollow and loaded with empty cinematic calories.

Though the name of Wes Craven, director of ``A Nightmare on Elm Street,'' is draped over the film's advertising, the fact is that this tedious excursion into ancient legend and gory modern special effects credits him only as executive producer. The director ...