Wishmaster 2 - Evil never dies

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Movie
German title Wishmaster 2 - Evil never dies
Original title Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1999
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jack Sholder
script Jack Sholder
production Tony Amatullo
music David C. Williams
camera Carlos González
cut Michael Schweitzer
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Wes Craven's Wishmaster

Successor  →
Wishmaster 3 - The Hellstone

Wishmaster 2 - The Evil Never Dies (Original Title: Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies ) an American feature film from 1999 directed by Jack Sholder . This is the first sequel to Wes Craven's Wishmaster and was produced directly for the video market .

action

If the break-in into a museum fails, the alarm is triggered. During the exchange of fire between the security service and the burglar, a guard is shot and a statue is destroyed that reveals a hidden ruby. The burglar (Morgana) takes it in hand and frees the Djinn. The Djinn turns into a human form, is arrested as a burglar and transferred to a prison. While there, he fulfills a few ill-chosen wishes of his fellow inmates, while Morgana has bad dreams in which she is asked to fulfill the prophecy.

Morgana visits the jinn in prison. The conversation scares her. She tells a cleric friend about her fears, the visions and the murder of the night watchman. Whereupon he also visits the jinn. Worried, they research the genie together. It turns out that the jinn has to collect a thousand and one souls by fulfilling a wish and receiving the soul for it. If he has the thousand and one souls together, he returns to the one who set him free to grant him three wishes. As soon as the last three are fulfilled, he is finally free and the jinns rule the world. Otherwise the captured souls are free again and he is banished back to the ruby.

The genie escapes with a Russian prisoner in a Russian gangster club. The Russian shoots Morgana to prevent the genie from fulfilling the last three wishes. However, Morgana does not suffer any damage. In a further conversation it turns out that eight hundred wishes are still necessary up to the three final ones. The genie accelerates the gathering of the rest by taking over a casino in which the three meet again. The clergyman wishes the jinn to go to hell, whereupon the jinn is to go to hell, but he takes both with him. And the priest is nailed to the cross for his wish. Morgana expresses the first wish that the priest be redeemed from his sufferings. She does not want to express another wish. The Djinn gets impatient and brings Morgana back to his casino.

Morgana remembers the research that showed that a spell, cast by a woman with a pure heart, can cast demons into the stone. She wishes that the night watchman she shot dead lives again. It is coming true. So she is pure of heart again and can banish the jinn with the magic spell in the stone.

criticism

"Poor horror film, whose bloody finale is played with playing cards and a roulette."

- film service

background

The film was shot in Los Angeles . Its production cost was an estimated $ 2.5 million. The film was first released in cinemas in France , Belgium and Singapore ; in France there were around 21,000 cinema viewers. The film was unindexed in June 2018. After a re-examination by the FSK, the age rating for the unabridged version was reduced to 16 years.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Filming locations for Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies , accessed October 21, 2008
  2. ↑ Release dates for Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies , accessed October 21, 2008
  3. ↑ Box office / business for Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies , accessed October 21, 2008
  4. ↑ https://www.schnittberichte.com/ticker.php?ID=5372