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Wishmaster (film)

Wishmaster and its three sequels are films about a Djinn that is released from a jewel, and seeks to capture enough souls to open a portal and free his fellow Djinni from their prison. The Djinn does this by granting a wish that also captures the wisher's soul. Andrew Divoff played the lead role in the first two films.

In each movie, the Djinn goes about this a different way, but in all of the movies the three wishes must be granted to the "Waker", the person who released the Djinn from the imprisoning gem (in all four movies a woman). In all four movies, the Djinn is resealed or destroyed before it can release its comrades and create a literal Hell on Earth. In the first two movies this is accomplished by undoing previous wishes with the third wish. In the third, the Waker dies before the wish can be made. In the fourth and final movie, the Waker actually makes a third wish early on in the movie, but the Djinn is unable to grant the wish (for the Waker to love him for who he really is) and finally gets killed by the Waker's paraplegic boyfriend.

The first film is notable for featuring many actors who starred in popular horror films: Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees), Tony Todd (Candyman), Reggie Banister and Angus Scrimm (of the Phantasm films), and Ted Raimi.

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