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| Year: | 1999 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Jack Sholder |
| Genre: | Slasher / ironic death horror |
| Starring: | Andrew Divoff, Holly Fields, Paul Johansson |
| Rating: | 3/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156182/ |
| Tagline: | Evil Has Been Summonned...Again! |
| Favourite line: | "A week, is that the best you got? I was once in a hole for 3000 years, this should be a breeze." |
During a failed robbery, the ruby that holds The Djinn imprisoned is smashed free of its housing within a Persian icon, and it isn't long before The Wishmaster is up and about again, attempting to trick people into wishing for something in his presence.
His aim?
Well, the same as in the first: to usher in The Age of The Djinn, as foretold in the prophecy.
With no development plotwise, this is a movie that is always going to stand or fall based on the gore set pieces, and they're a mixed bag of puppies, to be truthful. From the silly ("Freeze") to the surreal (the regression) to the downright bloodthirsty (squeezing a prisoner through the bars), some work and some don't, but most are at the least acceptable.
Andrew Divoff gurns and sneers his way through the movie in the lead role once more, this time seeming even more wooden than in the first, if such a thing is possible. I'm not complaining, mind, he is perfectly cast, and plays the part well.
But he can't act.
At all.
And you know, above and beyond anything else, I've enjoyed the first two Wishmaster movies a great deal mainly due to the fact that they are PROPER horror films.
No nasty CGI, no happy endings, no MTV style camera work and Nu-Metal tittage for a soundtrack.
I just hope the next two are as good.
Doubt it though.
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