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Today I'll show you a horror-fantasy film: "Wishmaster, Part 1"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with a glimpse into the past
A sorcerer mixed a powder and created an elixir
He then took the mixture, and heated it in the burning fire
Eventually, he used the mixture to crack open an ore, with a glittering fire opal inside
A voiceover by a narrator explains that since the beginning of time,
powerful creatures, called the Djinn, have been dwelling in the void between the worlds
A Djinn has the power to grant three wishes to anyone who wakes it
But after granting the third wish, the veil between the worlds will open;
and the Djinn will be able to unleash their forces unto the earth
There have been instances throughout history where humans wake the Djinn,
and ask them to grant their wishes
One such instance was in Persia in 11 27 A.D
The Persian emperor himself woke a Djinn; and for his second wish, he asked him to show him wonders
Because his wish was vague, the Djinn interpreted it in the way that he wanted
To show him some wonders, the Djinn then wreaked havoc in the palace, and started killing people
Some of them sprouted unnatural limbs and monsters in their body;
while others were completely transformed
It was chaos everywhere; and the people ran for their lives in despair
Inside his private chamber, the emperor regretted his wish;
and the Djinn gleefully told him that he could use his third wish to reverse the curse on his people
Of course, the emperor did not know the rule,
that asking the third wish would allow all the Djinn to roam the earth, and terrorize mankind
The emperor was about to do as the Djinn suggested; but the sorcerer interrupted him in time
He informed the emperor that asking the third wish would spell doom for the rest of mankind
the sorcerer pulled out the fire opal he got earlier, and uttered an incantation
This trapped the Djinn inside the fire opal, and foiled his plan eventually
In present-day America,
an antique collector excitedly watches the arrival of a valuable Ahura Mazda statue from a ship
A crane operator lowers the crate that contains the statue
but he makes a mistake; and the crate falls suddenly
It squashes the collector's assistant, and causes the statue inside to break into pieces
A dockworker hurries to the scene of the accident,
and finds the same fire opal, which was used by the sorcerer to trap the Djinn lying in the rubble
He carefully pockets the fire opal, and takes it to a pawnshop
The shop owner then takes the jewel to an auction house for an appraisal
The auction organizer is bowled over by the bauble,
and tells the pawnshop owner that he will assign his best appraiser to evaluate the opal
At the moment, the auction organizer's best appraiser, Alex,
is at a tennis court with her best friend Josh
After their game, they talk about Alex's recently-ended relationship
Josh then makes a move on her, and asks her out on a date
Alex rebuffs his advances, saying that they have a good friendship,
and they shouldn't ruin that and turn it into a hormoneship
But Josh is insistent that they'll make a good couple; and he urges her to think about it first
Afterward, Alex goes to the office, and sees the opal for the first time
She remarks about how rare and magnificent it is; and she carefully evaluates the jewel
She then blows on the opal, unknowingly waking the Djinn trapped inside
Alex puts the opal under the microscope;
and when she looks at the lens, she sees the Djinn's red eyes
Mystified, she tells the auction organizer that she needs to run more tests on the jewel,
before she can appraise it
She takes the fire opal to Josh, who works at a lab
Alex shares her suspicions that there's something odd inside the jewel;
and as a favor to her, Josh will study the fire opal closely
She then leaves the jewel with Josh, and heads to the local school,
where she teaches basketball to girls in her free time
Back in the lab, Josh conducts thermal imaging analysis on the fire opal
The results show that there is a significant heat signature inside the jewel
The fire opal heats up, and refracts the laser beams,
intensifying until the jewel breaks into pieces, and the Djinn is released
Right then, the whole lab explodes; and Josh hurtles backward
The monstrous Djinn slowly crawls to a wounded Josh
He can barely speak, due to the pain that he is feeling;
but the Djinn tells him that he can easily remove his pain
Josh says yes; and the Djinn grants his wish by killing him
With the first wish mission done, the Djinn then gains its full strength, and stands up
Meanwhile, Alex starts to hear the Djinn's voice in her head
She gets worried, and tries to call Josh's office, but to no avail
Alex's uncanny feeling pushes her to go to Josh's lab
She shrieks in horror, when she sees the wreckage and his corpse
A lieutenant later comes to investigate Josh's death
He approaches Alex and calms her down
She tells him that she asked Josh to analyze a fire opal shortly before he died
Somewhere in the city, a homeless man loitering in front of a pharmacy,
is shooed away by a pharmacist
Grumbling, the homeless man walks away, and wishes that the pharmacist would die
The Djinn, now clothed in rags, emerges from the shadows,
and asks the homeless man if he would be willing to trade his soul for his wish to come true
Not really believing the Djinn,
the homeless man replies that maybe cancer would be sufficient enough for the pharmacist
True enough, boils appear all over the pharmacist's body;
and he wastes away and dies a gruesome death
The homeless man watches all this happen, and runs away from the Djinn in terror
Concurrently on the other hand, Alex feels the pharmacist's pain, and she screams in horror
Later that night, she stays with her sister, who is deeply worried about her
She comforts Alex, and tells her that Josh's death is not her fault,
just like their parents' deaths were not her fault
It turns out, in the past there was a fire at their house;
and Alex was only able to save her sister
Ever since then, she felt guilty for not saving their parents;
and she began to have nightmares and visions
The sister thinks that what Alex is experiencing now,
is similar to the nightmares she had after the fire
But Alex insists that this time is different
The next morning, Alex tracks down the dockworker, who found the jewel previously
He admits that he got the fire opal from the statue, bought by the antique collector
She also reads a newspaper article detailing the accident at the dock,
which led to the discovery of the fire opal
It is indicated there that the crane operator lowering the crate was drunk that day,
leading to the accident
In the following, Alex visits the collector for more information about the history of the statue
He shows her his room filled with statues of forgotten deities,
and explains that the statue was of Ahura Mazda, the god of light in Zoroastrianism theology
The collector also gives Alex the contact details of a folklore professor, who can help her
Lastly, he invites her and her sister to a dinner party he's hosting soon
Soon after, Alex goes to the folklore professor
She tells her all about the ancient legend of a court sorcerer,
who trapped an evil spirit called a Djinn inside the fire opal
The professor also adds that the Djinn's goal has always been to take over this human world,
and if they get the third wish, they can enslave humans
Meanwhile, the monstrous Djinn goes to the morgue,
cuts a dead man's face and wears it, making him look like a normal human
After getting a good-looking face, he then goes to the store to shop for a nice suit
A pretty attendant helps him choose a suit
He spots her desires and taunts her, by saying that her beauty will fade
The Djinn pushes the attendant to admit that she wishes she will stay beautiful forever
So He grants her wish, by turning the attendant into a mannequin,
thereby preserving her beauty as she wished
The Djinn goes to the lieutenant next, and questions him about Josh's case and Alex's whereabouts
At first, the lieutenant refuses;
and he gets distracted by an annoying suspect in the police station
The lieutenant then says that
he wishes they'll have irrefutable evidence to jail the suspect for his crimes
With no surprise, the Djinn makes it happen,
by manipulating the suspect to start a shoot-out in the police station
In the ensuing chaos, the Djinn manages to get Alex's calling card from the case file
In her house, Alex does research on the Djinn
She learns that the Djinn can only use their powers by granting wishes,
and that they gather the souls of humans, whose wishes they granted
The souls can power the opal until they find the human who released them,
and grant the human's three wishes
Apparently, Alex is the one who released the Djinn by accident
Later that night, the Djinn goes to Alex's place of employment,
and meets the auction organizer in his office
He asks him for Alex's address; but he says no
So the Djinn shows him his power, by transforming a statuette into gold
After seeing the Djinn's magic,
the auction organizer gets tempted and gives him Alex's address, in exchange for a million dollars
Right at that very moment,
the auction organizer's mother names him as her insurance policy beneficiary;
and she dies in a plane crash afterward
The Djinn later breaks into an empty apartment, and holds the pieces of the fire opal in his hand
He begins claiming the souls of all the people, whose wishes he had granted
Their souls power the opal; and it glows intensely
Alex can feel their pain at the same time; and she writhes in agony
When it ends, the Djinn calls her, and says that he has now powered the gem;
and he will soon come after her
In fear, Alex runs to the professor's apartment, and asks for her help
The woman lets her in
but unbeknownst to Alex, it is the same apartment the Djinn broke into
Alex notices that the professor is acting strangely; so she starts to leave
But a deep and gravelly voice orders her to sit down
Alex turns and sees the Djinn in his true form
She realizes that he killed the professor and wore her smelly face
He tells her that he needs her to make three wishes,
since she is the person who released him from the opal;
and her wishes would break the barrier between worlds,
and release the rest of the Djinn to the human world
As a treat, the Djinn offers her a free wish
Alex wishes that he would kill himself
To her surprise, the Djinn obliges her by shooting himself in the head
But this doesn't work, and he just heals quickly, because the Djinn is immortal
Alex then makes her first official wish
She wants to know who the Djinn truly is
So he takes her inside the opal,
where she sees the trapped souls of the people whose wishes he granted
All of them, including the attendant, the auction organizer,
and the homeless man, are being painfully tortured
Alex is shocked by the evil she sees inside the opal
she tries to run away, but just gets lost inside a maze
The Djinn appears, and cackles at her human fragility
He threatens that he will harm her sister
In response, Alex makes her second wish: she wants to be back at her apartment without him
The Djinn obeys, and transports her back to her apartment alone
She immediately looks for her sister there,
but instead finds a note from the sister, saying that she will go to the collector's dinner party
Alex hurriedly drives to the collector's address;
and the Djinn follows her, once again donning a man's face
She tells the doorman that the Djinn is trying to kill her;
and the doorman blocks the Djinn from coming in, while Alex slips through the door
However, the Djinn tempts the doorman into wishing that he could escape from his boring life;
and the Djinn teleports him into a torture cell,
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The Djinn then makes his way inside, and befriends the collector,
who wishes that his party would be unforgettable
Of course, the Djinn grants his wish, and curses all the guests,
causing unforgettable chaos and death
He also reveals his true form, and terrorizes the people there for fun
Even the collector vomits a hideous slug-like creature, that goes after Alex immediately
but she escapes it, using a broken piece of pottery to cut its smelly body
Meanwhile, armed security guards come to Alex's rescue
but the terracotta soldiers from the collector's collection,
come to life suddenly and kill them all
Unfortunately, the Djinn corners Alex inside one of the galleries,
and shows her that he had trapped her sister in one of the collector's paintings
He threatens to burn the painting with her sister inside;
and she will die a painful death just like their parents
With no choice left, Alex makes her third wish, to the delight of the Djinn
She wishes that the dockworker wasn't drunk on the job, while hoisting the crate down from the ship
After that, the Djinn thinks that since Alex had given her third wish,
he would be able to release his fellow Djinn into the world
But that doesn't happen to his own wish
Instead, he is sucked back into the opal
It turns out, Alex's third wish reverses everything that happened,
since the dockworker's drunkenness caused him to drop the crate,
leading to the discovery of the opal, and later the release of the Djinn
So if he wasn't drunk that day, the statue is safely delivered to the collector; and no one dies
The world goes back to normal; and only Alex remembers everything that happened
Josh is now alive, and she finally realizes that she has some hormone feelings for him
So she asks him out to dinner, and kisses him, surprising the shitty Josh greatly
He asks her if she's alright; and Alex just winks and leaves
The movie ends with the Ahura Mazda statue now being stored
inside the collector's room of forgotten deities
Djinn, the wishmaster, sits alone inside the opal,
wishing in despair and waiting patiently for the day that he'll be released again
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