Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled has a young woman named Lisa Burnley (Tara Spencer-Nairn) fighting a legal battle with her wheelchair bound husband Sam (Jason Thompson) for compensation. However their lawyer Stephen Verdel (Michael Trucco) has a crush on Lisa, he gives her a present a small jewellery box inside which is a red gem stone from which the evil wish granting Djinn (John Novak) is unleashed. The Djinn needs someone to make three wishes which, upon him granting the third wish, will free his kind from a dimension somewhere between heaven & hell to rule the Earth. The Djinn steals Stephen's identity & sets about trying to trick someone into making the three required wishes & since Lisa & the real Stephen were seeing a lot of each other she's as good as anyone. First Lisa wishes the court case was over & that they won, easy no problem. Then Lisa wishes Sam could walk again, no sooner said than done. But then Lisa wishes she could love Stephen for who he really is, the Djinn is confused about how to grant this wish as he doesn't have a clue about love. The Djinn sets out on a mission to understand, make Lisa fall in love with him, grant the third wish & set his kind free to overrun the Earth...
This Canadian American co-production was directed by Chris Angel, who also has a small uncredited cameo as a car washing neighbour, Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled was OK at best. The script by John Benjamin Martin is part horror part love story with each element given a fair amount of screen time. The film comes across as a bit uneven when we see the Djinn as an evil monster one moment & all emotional the next. It moves along at a fair pace although it does drag a little in the middle, it has some fairly imaginative scenes but the potential was there for bigger & better things. The scene where the Djinn talks with Hollister (John Bemjamin Martin who also wrote Wishmaster 4 The Prophecy Fulfilled) over the phone & subtly suggests that he kill himself with various puns & innuendo is quite effective, talk about giving yourself the best bits! The character's are OK but the attempts at drama don't really work as it's hard to take the thing seriously.
Director Angel doesn't do anything spectacular in the director's chair & serves up a throughly routine & bland looking horror film. The only reason to watch this is to see how the Djinn twists people's wishes & manages to kill them, some are OK while others seem like afterthoughts. There is some decent gore in Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled, someone pulls their own tongue out, cuts their nose off & shoots themselves, someone's hand is crushed & then they are impaled on a spike, someone has their face pulled off, someone is decapitated & various stabbings.
Apparently filmed back-to-back with the previous instalment Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2001) this was obviously made-for-video & has that low budget cheap vibe throughout. Some of the special effects are OK although the Djinn itself looks a little rubbery & overall it's well made but nothing stands out as being particularly good. The acting was OK but again sort of average.
Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfiulled is by no means the best horror film ever made but it isn't the worst either. If you can grab a copy cheap or it's on TV for free & you have nothing better to do then I think it's worth a watch, just have realistic expectations.
This Canadian American co-production was directed by Chris Angel, who also has a small uncredited cameo as a car washing neighbour, Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled was OK at best. The script by John Benjamin Martin is part horror part love story with each element given a fair amount of screen time. The film comes across as a bit uneven when we see the Djinn as an evil monster one moment & all emotional the next. It moves along at a fair pace although it does drag a little in the middle, it has some fairly imaginative scenes but the potential was there for bigger & better things. The scene where the Djinn talks with Hollister (John Bemjamin Martin who also wrote Wishmaster 4 The Prophecy Fulfilled) over the phone & subtly suggests that he kill himself with various puns & innuendo is quite effective, talk about giving yourself the best bits! The character's are OK but the attempts at drama don't really work as it's hard to take the thing seriously.
Director Angel doesn't do anything spectacular in the director's chair & serves up a throughly routine & bland looking horror film. The only reason to watch this is to see how the Djinn twists people's wishes & manages to kill them, some are OK while others seem like afterthoughts. There is some decent gore in Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled, someone pulls their own tongue out, cuts their nose off & shoots themselves, someone's hand is crushed & then they are impaled on a spike, someone has their face pulled off, someone is decapitated & various stabbings.
Apparently filmed back-to-back with the previous instalment Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2001) this was obviously made-for-video & has that low budget cheap vibe throughout. Some of the special effects are OK although the Djinn itself looks a little rubbery & overall it's well made but nothing stands out as being particularly good. The acting was OK but again sort of average.
Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfiulled is by no means the best horror film ever made but it isn't the worst either. If you can grab a copy cheap or it's on TV for free & you have nothing better to do then I think it's worth a watch, just have realistic expectations.