 | MOVIE #1,374 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 02.14.24 The pure insanity of this makes up for its half-baked plot, though it's something of a mystery how such a slight premise spawned a franchise that yielded three more movies. The 80s/90s were such a rich time for needless/endless sequels, especially in the mid-budget horror and fantasy genres. Wishmaster concerns a djinn, a wish-granting, evil genie who is released from a jewel and seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow djinn to inhabit and enslave the Earth. Its director, Robert Krutzman, is better known as a legendary special effects and makeup guy: his credits include From Beyond, several of the Evil Dead films, and creating the fantastic creature designs in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, among many others. This whole picture is essentially a showcase for his creative work in this department and it’s worth a watch for that alone. A small sampling… |
Wishmaster is also notable for featuring a slew of fun cameos from classic 80s horror villain actors in 'normal' roles: Freddy (Robert Englund) has the biggest part, Phantasm's Angus Scrimm serves as the narrator (voice only), Friday the 13th's best known Jason (Kane Hodder) plays a security guard, and the Candyman himself Tony Todd is really excellent in his one brief scene (and Mini-Me, an unrecognizable Verne Troyer, plays a little mutant version of the djinn, see below & RIP). Andrew Divoff is also hamming it up as the djinn and this one works so long as you don't think too hard about the dodgy plot.
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Wishmaster is a 1997 American fantasy horror film directed by Robert Kurtzman. The film was executive produced by Wes Craven, and is the only film of the Wishmaster series with his name attached. Its plot concerns a djinn, a wish-granting, evil genie who is released from a jewel and seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow djinn to inhabit and enslave the Earth. It was released on September 19, 1997.
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