Wishmaster is a 1997 American dark fantasy horror film directed by Robert Kurtzman . The film was executive produced by Wes Craven , and is the only film of the Wishmaster series with his name attached. Its plot concerns a djinn , a wish-granting, evil genie who is released from a jewel and seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow djinn to inhabit and enslave the Earth.
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74-546: A burning painting. Alex, after calming herself so she can focus, wishes that crane operator Mickey Torelli had not been drunk at work two days ago, which the Djinn is forced to grant. This, however, undoes the events that followed the statue's destruction and traps the Djinn in the fire opal again, as the now sober Torelli lowers the crate with no problems. Alex visits Josh, who is now alive again, and notices that Alex seems pleased with herself, though she does not explain why. Inside
111-550: A compelling script". Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle called it "an extravaganza of bad special effects and worse acting". Of the few positive reviews, The Times of Northwest Indiana critic Christopher Sheid gave it a B+ and stated that "considering that the djinn itself is essentially a combination of Pinhead and Freddy, it's safe to say "Wishmaster" is a movie respectful of its influences. It's also respectful of its audience's intelligence, which
148-578: A hypothetical "average" that does not help them identify or understand the significant amount of normal variation seen in the real world. Mannequins were a frequent motif in the works of many early 20th-century artists, notably the metaphysical painters Giorgio de Chirico , Alberto Savinio and Carlo Carrà . Shop windows displaying mannequins were a frequent photographic subject for Eugène Atget . Mannequins have been used in horror and science fiction. The Twilight Zone episode " The After Hours " (1960) involves mannequins taking turns living in
185-515: A mannequin factory and falls in love with one of the mannequins, imagining it as his childhood crush. Military use of mannequins is recorded amongst the ancient Chinese, such as at the siege of Yongqiu . The besieged Tang army lowered scarecrows down the walls of their castles to lure the fire of the enemy arrows. In this way, they renewed their supplies of arrows. Dummies were also used in the trenches in World War I to lure enemy snipers away from
222-555: A security guard. Also in the film were Tony Todd from Candyman , Ted Raimi from Candyman , Darkman , Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness , Ricco Ross from Aliens , Joseph Pilato from Day of the Dead , Reggie Bannister and the voice of Angus Scrimm (from the Phantasm films), Jenny O'Hara from the later Devil , actor Jack Lemmon 's son Chris Lemmon from Just Before Dawn , and George 'Buck' Flower (who
259-421: A shooting spree inside the police precinct, and in the chaos finds Alex's home address and leaves. He next visits Nick, Nick agrees to help in exchange for a million dollars, which he receives when his mother takes out a life insurance policy and is killed in a plane explosion. Alex sees troubling visions every time the Djinn grants wishes. She consults Derleth again but soon realizes she is actually talking to
296-540: A teaching aid for pregnancy and childbirth. Each figure could be opened up to reveal internal organs and sometimes fetuses. There are only 180 known surviving ancient medical manikins worldwide. Today, medical simulation mannequins, models or related artefacts such as SimMan, the Transparent Anatomical Manikin or Harvey are widely used in medical education . The term manikin refers exclusively to these types of models, though mannequin
333-482: A wish "to escape his routine life" and have a more exciting profession, allowing the Djinn to trap and kill Valentine, making his way into the party. The Djinn charms Beaumont, who wishes his party would be unforgettable, and thus the Djinn causes the artwork in his party to come to life and kill Beaumont, the guests, and the security guards called in to help. Eventually, the Djinn corners the sisters and attempts to scare Alex into making her third wish by trapping Shannon in
370-566: Is a doll , often articulated, used by artists , tailors , dressmakers , window dressers and others, especially to display or fit clothing and show off different fabrics and textiles. Previously, the English term referred to human models and muses (a meaning which it still retains in French and other European languages); the meaning as a dummy dating from the start of World War II . Life-sized mannequins with simulated airways are used in
407-456: Is often also used. In first aid courses, manikins may be used to demonstrate methods of giving first aid (e.g., resuscitation ). Fire and coastguard services use mannequins to practice life-saving procedures. The mannequins have similar weight distribution to a human. Special obese mannequins and horse mannequins have also been made for similar purposes. Over-reliance on mass-produced mannequins has been criticized for teaching medical students
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#1732797535157444-402: Is to say this shocker doesn't bore us with the pretense of trying to be smart ... You couldn't wish for a better low-budget fright flick." In 2020, an official novelization of the film was written by Christian Francis and published by Encyclopocalypse Publications. Mannequin A mannequin (sometimes spelled as manikin and also called a dummy , lay figure , or dress form )
481-525: The 15th century, when miniature " milliners' mannequins " were used to demonstrate fashions for customers. Full-scale, wickerwork mannequins came into use in the mid-18th century. Wirework mannequins were manufactured in Paris from 1835. The first female mannequins, made of papier-mâché , were made in France in the mid-19th century. Mannequins were later made of wax to produce a more lifelike appearance. In
518-405: The 1920s, wax was supplanted by a more durable composite made with plaster. Modern day mannequins are made from a variety of materials, the primary ones being fiberglass and plastic . The fiberglass mannequins are usually more expensive than the plastic ones, tend to be not as durable, but are significantly more realistic. Plastic mannequins, on the other hand, are a relatively new innovation in
555-416: The Djinn, who has killed Derleth and taken her form. The Djinn confronts Alex and offers her three wishes. In the spirit of fair play , he offers her a "free" wish, to see what will happen. She wishes for him to shoot himself, but he is immortal and the gunshot fails to harm him. Using the first of her three official wishes, Alex wishes to know what he is. The Djinn teleports her to his hellish world within
592-425: The box, killing Beaumont's assistant Ed Finley and destroying the statue. A dockworker steals the fire opal from the rubble and pawns it. Eventually, the jewel reaches Regal Auctioneers, where Nick Merritt instructs appraiser Alexandra "Alex" Amberson to examine it, which wakes the Djinn. Alex sees something inside the jewel and leaves it with her close friend and colleague, Josh Aickman, to analyze. As he collects data,
629-403: The djinn: a djinn grants wishes in exchange for souls, but as djinns are demonic in nature, the wishes will be twisted into curses for the djinn's amusement. Later, Alex learns that the Djinn needs to power the gem with human souls and then grant her (the person who originally released him) three wishes before he can open the gateway to release his fellow djinn on Earth. Meanwhile, the Djinn takes
666-414: The emperor can make his third wish, Zoroaster , a sorcerer , explains the consequences of the 3rd wish as it will free legions of djinn on Earth, he then reveals a fire opal , which pulls the Djinn inside and traps him. In present-day America, Raymond Beaumont supervises workers lowering a box containing an antique statue of Ahura Mazda onto a ship. The crane operator, Mickey Torelli, is drunk and drops
703-408: The film (Beaumont, Finney, Etchison, Clegg, Derleth, Merritt and Aickman) match the names of writers of horror and fantasy fiction. Josh Aickman (played by Tony Crane), explains to Alexandra Amberson (played by Tammy Lauren) that he cannot test the opal immediately because he has, "...about 2 hours' worth of Professor Leiber's bullshit to take care of first." This Professor does not make an appearance in
740-402: The film and is not listed in the credits but is a reference to horror, fantasy, science fiction writer Fritz Leiber . Wishmaster was shot on an estimated budget of US$ 5 million and its total domestic gross was US$ 15,738,769. During its opening weekend in theaters, 19–21 September 1997, Wishmaster made US$ 6 million, putting it in third place at the box office, behind In & Out (which
777-409: The form of a dead man and uses the name Nathaniel Demerest. He kills a pharmacist with the wish of a vengeful vagrant and grants sales clerk Ariella's wish for eternal beauty by turning her into a mannequin . Searching for Alex, he goes to Nathanson to gain her information. Nathanson refuses to help him, but the Djinn grants Nathanson's wish to easily prove a criminal's guilt by having the criminal go on
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#1732797535157814-447: The full-scale articulated mannequin (more properly known as lay figure) as an aid in drawing and painting draped figures. In 18th-century England, lay-figures are known to have been owned by portrait painters such as Joshua Reynolds , Thomas Gainsborough , and Arthur Devis for the arrangement of conversation pieces . Anatomical models such as ivory manikins were used by doctors in the 17th century to study medical anatomy and as
851-410: The gem explodes, destroying the lab and releasing the Djinn. Josh, wounded, wishes for relief from his physical pain, and the Djinn grants his wish by killing him. Alex, having been informed of Josh's death by Lieutenant Nathanson, tracks the gem to the statue which she tracks to Beaumont, who sends Alex to visit Wendy Derleth, a folklore professor. Wendy explains the history of the gem and the nature of
888-433: The gem which terrifies her as he boasts of his evil to her. She then wishes to escape back to her apartment, alone. The Djinn had been threatening Alex's sister, Shannon, so Alex hurried to a party Beaumont had invited them to earlier. The Djinn follows, again disguised as Nathaniel Demerest. Alex tells doorman Johnny Valentine to hold the Djinn, as he is trying to kill her; however, the Djinn manipulates Valentine into making
925-573: The jewel in the statue of Ahura Mazda, now in Beaumont's private collection, the Djinn sits on a throne, waiting to be released. Wishmaster is notable for featuring many actors from popular horror films. Robert Englund , who was Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, played an antique collector and Kane Hodder , who played Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th series, played
962-406: The mannequin field and are built to withstand the hustle of customer foot traffic usually witnessed in the store they are placed in. Mannequins are used primarily by retail stores as in-store displays or window decoration. However, many online sellers also use them to display their products for their product photos (as opposed to using a live model). Renaissance artist Fra Bartolomeo invented
999-530: The meaning "an artist's jointed model", which in turn came from the Flemish word manneken , meaning "little man, figurine", referring to late Middle Ages practice in Flanders whereby public display of even women's clothes was performed by male pages (boys). Fashion shops in Paris ordered dolls in reed from Flemish merchants. Flanders was in terms of logistics the easiest region to import reed dolls from, as
1036-478: The party scene where it attacks some of the guests, though it is not formally referenced. A veiled reference to the Cthulhu Mythos can be heard in the incantation used to imprison the Djinn; the words "Nib Shuggurath", a spoonerism of Shub-Niggurath . Another Lovecraft reference appears in the character name of Wendy Derleth ( Jenny O'Hara ); August Derleth (1909-1971) was a publisher and anthologist who
1073-464: The real world as people. In the Doctor Who serial Spearhead from Space (1970), an alien intelligence attempts to take over Earth with killer plastic mannequins called Autons . The romantic comedy film Mannequin (1987) is a story of a window dresser who falls in love with a mannequin that comes to life. The romantic thriller film Bommai (2023) is the story of a person who works in
1110-521: The rivers Schelde and Oise provided easy routes from Flanders to Paris. As the Flemish wrote ' manneke(n) ' for 'little man' on their invoices, the Parisians pronounced this as 'mannequen', hence shifted to 'mannequin'. A mannequin is thus linguistically masculine, not feminine. Shop mannequins are derived from dress forms used by fashion houses for dress making. The use of mannequins originated in
1147-410: The soldiers. A Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report describes the use of a mannequin ("Jack-in-the-Box") as a countersurveillance measure, intended to make it more difficult for the host country's counterintelligence to track the movement of CIA agents posing as diplomats. A "Jack-in-the-Box" – a mannequin representing the upper half of a human – would quickly replace a CIA agent after he left
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1184-475: The teaching of first aid , CPR , and advanced airway management skills such as tracheal intubation . During the 1950s, mannequins were used in nuclear tests to help show the effects of nuclear weapons on humans. Also referred to as mannequins are the human figures used in computer simulation to model the behavior of the human body. Mannequin comes from the French word mannequin , which had acquired
1221-531: The title Wishmaster . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wishmaster&oldid=1189424751 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Wishmaster (film) The film stars Andrew Divoff as The Djinn and Tammy Lauren . The film
1258-416: Was debuting in first place) and The Game (which was in second place during its second week). The film was panned by critics. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 25% based on 32 reviews, with an average rating of 3.97/10. The site's consensus reads: " Wishmaster searches for horror in the exploits of a supernatural being—one whose powers, alas, evidently do not include the ability to summon
1295-506: Was followed by three sequels, Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies (1999), Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2001) and Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled (2002). In 1127, a djinn asks a Persian emperor to make his second wish. When the emperor wishes to see wonders, the Djinn uses his powers to torture and mutilate people in the palace. The emperor is horrified, but the Djinn tells him to use his third wish to set things right. Before
1332-570: Was often used in small parts in various horror movies of the 1980s and early 1990s, often directed by John Carpenter ). Verne Troyer of later Austin Powers fame appears as the smaller Wishmaster when he first escapes from his gem prison. A Pazuzu statue, a personification of the demonic figure which possessed Linda Blair 's character in The Exorcist series , also appeared. This can be seen in Beaumont's collection room and on display during
1369-544: Was the first book publisher of the writings of H.P. Lovecraft , and a long-time contributor of new works in the Cthulu Mythos. Makeup artist Tom Savini also appears in a cameo as a customer at the pharmacy when Reggie Bannister's character dies. Many crew members, including director Robert Kurtzman (man killed by piano), had small cameos in the film. Writer Peter Atkins, also known for his work on Hellraiser films, intentionally made some surnames of characters in
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