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Wish Upon (2017)

July. 14,2017
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5.1
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PG-13
| Fantasy Horror Thriller
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A teenage girl discovers a box with magical powers, but those powers comes with a deadly price.

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Greenes
2017/07/14

Please don't spend money on this.

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FeistyUpper
2017/07/15

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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Spidersecu
2017/07/16

Don't Believe the Hype

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StyleSk8r
2017/07/17

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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Josh
2017/07/18

If you're a teenager, that is. Had some good ideas but wound up being a little goofy. One of those movies where you see the bad reviews and think people are just being biased. Its entertaining but only because it's pretty bad.

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dishon-94970
2017/07/19

Could have been so much better if it wasn't for the bad acting and cutting away from gruesome scenes. It's supposed to be a horror movie. The box didn't only ruin the main characters life. It helped ruin the movie.

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spencergrande6
2017/07/20

The most recent incarnation of the classic Djinni premise, though this one eschews that entirely in favor of a magic Chinese box with a backstory all its own not involving Djinn. I'm not sure why the locality and myth had to change or where this story even comes from - it's not nearly interesting enough to warrant changing up the formula and it's not like anyone cares all that much anyway. Just get to the mangling of wishes already!Then again, as a result of the changing of the mythology, there are now 7(!) wishes to be granted - 4 more for your guilty watching pleasure. Except that this time, wishes aren't always twisted around. They're applied strongly but hardly in a completely backwards way. The twist is that someone dies every time a wish is granted. That's it. It takes a lot of the fun out of the classic granted wishes premise. The PG-13 rating neuters it (I watched it unrated but it still felt PG- 13). It's just alright with a solid, interesting cast led by the natural and unassuming Joey King, an unrecognizable Ryan Phillippe and Sherilyn Fenn just for shits.

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lavatch
2017/07/21

In the special features portion of the DVD of "Wish Upon," the director and cast were having great fun in recounting the narrative of their film. The actress Joey King, who plays the main character Clare, gives the audience an "attic tour" of the horrific starting point of Clare's story where, as a child, she discovered the dead body of her mother, who hung herself.So, what is so funny about "Wish Upon"? While the expression "supernatural horror film" has been used to describe the "Wish Upon," a better term is "dark comedy." Young Clare comes across a magic box known as a Chinese wish pot, which grants her seven wishes. The box is evidently controlled by a demented force known as the Yaoguai. But it soon becomes apparent to the audience (Clare is very slow to catch on) that there is a "blood price" to pay for each wish.The theme of unintended consequences occurs when the most beloved people in Clare's life are on the receiving end of violent deaths as payback to the wish pot. The litany of deaths begin with Clare's poor dog Max, then become progressively more ghoulish with each victim. The term "multiverse" is used in the film to denote the diabolical thinking of the magic box that clearly has a minds of its own in conceiving the unexpected termination of Clare's friends and family members following her "wishes." The wish pot even flips its lid and plays ominous music portending the next fatality.The filmmakers attempt to ground the magic box in history that is supposed to send chills up and down the viewers' spines. A fictional character named Lu Mei had evidently first come into possession with the wish pot early in the twentieth century, leading Lu to become a survivor of the plague. Later, Arthur Sands, an airman in the United States armed forces, comes across the box and eventually takes his own life after succumbing to the addictive powers of wish fulfillment. Sands lived in Clare's neighborhood, where apparently Clare's mother came across the indestructible wish pot. By leaving it in the trash, she afforded her husband to later come across it when the distraught man was reduced to working as a scavenger following his wife's suicide.In the bonus track of the DVD, the director John R. Leonetti stressed how the wish pot was "relentless" in its pursuit of karma for all of whose who dare to wish upon this magical device. In this case, however, the wish pot came back to bite the filmmakers who just wanted to have a good time. While there some creative touches, there were too many scenes that were so unpleasant that the audience never had the same amount of fun as the cast and crew.

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