I'm extremely confused about the rating. This movie is decent enough to watch. Did too many non-horror fans vote? I found it well made. Did you not like the ending? Duh, shock endings are what's great about movies like this. Give it a watch. It is not a disappointment.
Wish Upon
2017
Action / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Wish Upon
2017
Action / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Plot summary
A teenage girl discovers a box with magical powers, but those powers comes with a deadly price.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
September 28, 2017 at 08:00 AM
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Did an enemy of the director pay people to rate this so low?
Generally generic
WISH UPON is yet another high school horror flick with an entirely predictable storyline that you'll have seen play out a million times before in a million similar ways. A typical mildly obnoxious protagonist - who has no likeable element to her personality whatsoever - comes into possession of an ancient magical device which will grant her seven wishes. They do come true, but with macabre results. This is the kind of teen friendly fare that I generally dislike watching, with cheesy death scenes that feel like weak imitations of the ones in the FINAL DESTINATION franchise and a general generic and predictable feel. I was amused to see Ryan Philippe looking middle aged and playing the protagonist's father.
clueless and shallow
Clare Shannon (Joey King) is still haunted by memories of witnessing her mother's suicide. She is embarrassed by her dumpster-diving drunk hoarder father (Ryan Phillippe) and picked on by fellow student Darcie. She gets into a fist fight with Darcie. Her father brings her a mysterious Chinese music box from the dumpster. She wishes for Darcie to rot. The box opens and Darcie wakes up with necrotizing fasciitis. She then finds her beloved dog Max dead. She makes another wish for hunky Paul to fall in love with her. Next, her rich uncle dies in a weird bathroom accident. She wishes for the inheritance and he leaves her his entire estate. Then her lovely neighbor dies in a freak accident. Her classmate Ryan Hui and his cousin Gina helps translate the inscriptions on the box revealing seven wishes granted.
I want to like Clare at the beginning. As the story unfolds, she gets more shallow and stupider. Clueless and shallow is survivable for a little while but it gets rather annoying. She shows a callousness to Darcie although her friends are even worst. It takes too long for her to add two and two together. In general, her wishing is too careless. It's like she has never paid attention to any genie story. She's a frustrating character. As a horror, there is one minor scary buildup but generally nothing actually scary. It's all very disappointing.