{"id":26534,"date":"2017-10-05T19:10:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=26534"},"modified":"2017-10-05T19:10:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T23:10:06","slug":"wishmaster-4-the-prophecy-fulfilled-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/05\/wishmaster-4-the-prophecy-fulfilled-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishmaster 4: The Prophecy Fulfilled (2002)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hot woman unleashes genie, genie meets hot woman, genie comes between hot woman and her husband, husband and genie fight for the love of the hot woman. Isn\u2019t that always how it goes? Same old story. \u201cWishmaster 4\u201d is a noticeable departure in quality, to the point where it\u2019s almost distracting. The prologue is filmed in what looks like an HD camcorder, there\u2019s a gratuitous sex scene not two minutes in to the film, and this time the evil djinn makes his grand appearance by emerging from a closet, as opposed to the previous times where he required a wish to take on full anthropomorphic form. Completely giving up on scaring the audience, \u201cWishmaster 4\u201d is now dark fantasy, with our djinn humanized for the sake of a goofy romance.<\/p>\n

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After Sam and Lisa movie in to their new house, Sam is caught in a vicious motorcycle accident that leaves him permanently wheel bound. Spending three years on his negligence case, Lisa begins forming an awkward friendship with her lawyer Steven. After discovering the cursed gem housing the djinn from a gift Steven gives Lisa, the djinn is released and takes his form, hoping to gain Lisa\u2019s trust and convince her to give him three wishes needed to free his imprisoned brothers. But when the djinn begins to form actual emotions for Lisa, he tries to figure out how to use his powers to do away with her husband and help her fall for him. This is the only time we see other djinns, and for once we\u2019re told that, yes, there are other djinns.<\/p>\n

To make things even more confusing, the djinn is capable of forming feelings for his \u201cwakers,\u201d all of whom have been really hot women almost every time. What a lucky streak. There\u2019s also the inclusion of a \u201chunter,\u201d a mythical sword wielding warrior whose goal is to kill the djinn and his waker. We\u2019re never told whether this hunter is a villain or hero, as he spends a lot of the film running around and hacking innocent people with his sword. For the most part he\u2019s integrated to add more fantasy substance, but a lot of it is wasted since his presence serves absolutely no purpose, and he affects almost nothing in the actual narrative. \u201cThe Prophecy Fulfilled\u201d has a lot more narrative than \u201cBeyond the Gates of Hell,\u201d for whatever it\u2019s worth, and despite the low budget it works on world building.<\/p>\n

In the end though, it\u2019s a crummy capper to an otherwise odd ball horror series.<\/p>\n