Rating: Summary: A viewer Review: Wishmaster wasn't very good and Wishmaster 2 is not good either. Wishmaster 2 started out good but then it went down hill from there!
Rating: Summary: An Double Feature to Two Campy Horror films. Review: Wishmaster:When an evil Genie (Andrew Divoff) got trapped inside a diamond for years to come. In today`s world of society, the Genie broke free from the diamond and he`s hauting for souls, so he could make himself stronger and he`s planning to take over the world.Wishmaster 2:When an evil Genie (Divoff) breaks free from High-Priced Art. Now again, he`s rising hell to everyone, who make a wish from Him, so he could have thier souls to make himself stronger and the only man, who could stop him is an Strong Woman (Holly Fields), who could stop the Wishmaster from taking all over the World. WM:This entertaining Campy Horror Film is actually very entertaining for Horror Fans. Robert Englund has a small part as a Art Dealer. Cameos by Angus Scrimm (Voice Only), Ted Raimi, George `Buck` Flower, Reggie Bannister, Tony Todd and Make-Up Artist:Howard Berger and Robert Kurtzman (Also the film`s director). Written by Peter Atkins (Hellbound:Hellraiser, Hellraiser 3:Hell on Earth). Grade:B+. WM 2:This Sequel is much more Campy than the Original. Written and Directed by Jack Sholder (Alone in the Dark, A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2:Freddy`s Revenge, The Hidden). This Sequel is great dumb fun. Grade:A-.
Rating: Summary: Divoff makes them worth watching! Review: Yeah, I admit it, they're guilty pleasures. Wishmaster and Wishmaster 2 are low-budget horror films featuring a malevolent genie (definitely not of the Robin Williams variety) who grants people's wishes in wickedly ironic ways, then steals their souls. The scripts are comic-book thin, basically an excuse for us to see what horrible but unintended wish the genie will grant next. You'd think one movie like this would be enough. That is, until you see Andrew Divoff's performance in Wishmaster 2. This has to be one of the great horror performances in history, up there with Lugosi and Karloff's best. Get this -- Divoff spends most of the film out of makeup, with nothing but his own face to convey a sense of inhuman menace. Somehow, he pulls it off. The guy manages to look terrifyingly feral, inhumanly evil as he grins cruelly and sneers at us with a voice that is part Orson Welles, part Vincent Price. Wow! Regardless of what you think of the plot, special effects, etc., Divoff's performance makes the DVD set worth buying.
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