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Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies (1999)
Djinn needs 1001 souls, people make stupid wishes, audience laughs
Plot: Morgana awakens the Djinn during an art gallery robbery. The Djinn needs 1001 souls to take over the world. People make stupid wishes, audience laughs.
Acting: Divoff is odd in a funny way, with a strong, raspy voice which carries the movie along with his half-sinister, half-comedic facial expressions. Morgana was more annoying than anything.
Script: The dialogue is amusing at times (pretty much anytime Nathaniel is trying to get people to wish), dead boring at others (pretty much anytime Morgana is on screen). Adding the priest in was unneccessary, it only really tacked on the 'Hell' setting.
Scares: Non-existant, but not really needed. The movie is more for fun than it is for spooks. It has some funny deaths (Vegas comes to mind) and the special effects are sometimes so poor they can get scary (in a "wow that's pathetic" sort of way).
Overall: Same idea as Wishmaster, just executed differently. Better or worse? Well, I can't really say. I liked both, although the first one seemed a little more fun throughout, while this one dragged at parts. I recommend it simply because of Divoff, his performance as Nathaniel/Djinn is great. Oh yeah, and the Vegas deaths, they're hilarious.
8/10
Darkness Falls (2003)
Good idea poorly executed
This movie is said to have been cut to ribbons on the editing floor by the studio. If their intentions were to make a fast paced movie, they've succeeded. Unfortunately, in succeeding in making a fast paced movie, they forgot to make it any good.
The acting was only as good as the script, which was pretty bad. We get another kid who tries to talk like an adult (most notably in his wishes for the Tooth Fairy to just get him rather than running away forever), and the rest of the cast is forgettable at best.
Scares in this movie are nonexistant. There are quite a few attempted boo-scares, but none of them work and can generally be seen a mile away. General eeriness is attempted through atmosphere, yet doesn't quite work due to the extremely quick, choppy pacing of the film.
This movie is supposed to be 85 minutes, which it may be if you count the previews before it. The pace was quick, but it had to be to fit into such a small timeframe. The entire movie felt like 10 minutes, unfortunately I wasted much more time than that. The movie is predictable, the creature is annoying with its high pitched screams, and the characters are paper thin. They had a good premise, but the execution was poorly done.