While Robert Kurtzman’s effects work gave an imaginative kick to an otherwise formulaic plot in the first Wishmaster, by the time of Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled, the series has become cheap and tatty. Kurtzman’s outlandish creations have been replaced by cheesy makeup effects produced by a discount studio – a particularly unconvincing set-piece with businessman (played by screenwriter John Benjamin Martin) ripping out his own tongue, slicing off his nose and jabbing a knife into his cheek; and especially the climactic scenes with djinns popping through the walls of a collapsing house. For that matter, the wishes offered up in Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled have been conceived with little imagination. When Kimberly Huie wishes that she could be “fucked to death”, all that happens is we see her suspended halfway up a wall. Some of these are ridiculous – like where barman Ernesto Griffith wishes that he could be a pimple on a stripper’s ass. The film’s single novel idea – although one that is only dealt with in unimaginative ways – is where the prime wisher makes a wish that she could love the djinn “for who he truly is” and we then see with sporadic amusement images of the djinn in love.

More so than it is a Wishmaster film, The Prophecy Fulfilled often feels like it is about a troubled relationship where the woman is drawn off into having a potential affair. The actors in the roles of the troubled couple – Tara Spencer-Nairn and Jason Thompson – are blandly cast. These are parts that seem more well-suited to a couple in their thirties, not people around the average age of 22. On the other hand, Michael Trucco, later a regular on tv’s Battlestar Galactica (2003-9), is well cast in the part of the Wishmaster-possessed lawyer where he does a fine job of appearing smooth, charming and totally ruthless.

Director Chris Angel is better known in the industry as an editor – these days he works as an editor for dvd extras. Outside of these two Wishmaster entries, he made two other genre films as director with The Fear: Resurrection (1999) and the Catholic serial killer film A Twist of Faith/Beyond Redemption (1999). With the exception of the non-genre comedy This is Not a Test (2008), Angel has yet to direct any other films.
 

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