Tuesday, August 26, 2025

The Review: Wishmaster


Wishmaster 4/10


This movie was weird as hell and I am pretty sure I had seen it before but maybe in pieces. Back in the 1100s this djinn grants a wish from this emperor that was like “I wanna see wonders!” and the djinn was like “Bet” and started making people die in all kinda crazy ass ways. Just when a third wish to make it stop was about to be made the djinn got sucked into a ruby. Fast forward to the 90s and this statue containing the ruby is being transported. Drunk dude drops the statue killing someone and before this man's soul has even left his body this other worker steals the ruby that was embedded in the statue. This lady Alex and Josh have the gem examined after the dude who stole it sells it and it releases the djinn when it blows up. Josh is like “I don't wanna be in pain” so the djinn is like “Bet” and kills him.



The rest of the movie is the djinn, now in human form, doing various versions of this. Damn djinn turned a dude into a glass door and walked through him. Killing people in the most honked up ways and trying to get a third wish made so that he can release other djinn into the world. Alex ends up tricking the djinn by wishing that the drunk worker that dropped the statue was sober that day and it ends up erasing everything that happened the previous few days while the djinn was free. You would think that djinn would catch on at some point because they always get tricked this way. This movie was crazy as hell and had a ton of special effects and practical effects and with all the people associated with this they were like “Lets do as much as we can in one movie!”


Tammy Lauren as Alexandra Amberson

Andrew Divoff as The Djinn/Nathaniel Demerest

Robert Englund as Raymond Beaumont


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