Not unlike FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, a cool movie is reduced to a direct-to-video sequel (which means you KNOW the special FX have been dumbed down "something fierce"), while shit like SCREAM and I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER are given several big screen released sequel?! I hate the world, all I can say is that when Armageddon comes, I'm just gonna stand on the ruined spire of the Empire State Building and laugh! Oh, almost forgot about the movie... anyway, WISHMASTER 2: E.N.D. (wow, that's a cool coincidence!) features Andrew Divoff reprising his role as the mighty Djinn (again, it's pronounced "gin"), this time released by some screw-up museum thieves when the statue from the first film is hot and one of the guys grabs the ancient opal and wishes himself unborn out of existence (Yes, everyone who makes a wish STILL doesn't know how to phrase it right). After freezing a cop, Djinn dons the unborn thief's clothes and is arrested. Meanwhile, the thief that technically released Djinn, Morgana, has the task of making the 3 wishes and stopping Djinn from bringing his race to earth. But, she's too busy getting into moral debates with her preacher ex-boyfriend. While in prison, Djinn suckers his fellow inmates into making stupid wishes and giving up their souls. Gods does Djinn look like a fag in his prison uniform, though on the plus side me makes a lawyer fuck himself! How disturbing... Meanwhile, Morg is going wacky with hallucinations about Djinn and all the pain and suffering he's causing, blah, blah, blah. Morg thinks that the only way she can stop Djinn is by becoming a "pure" person (goody-two-shoes) and cutting off her finger?! But, pure or not, shooting Djinn with a gun doesn't work, and she can't kill herself , because he can't let her die (she has to make the 3 wishes after all). Soon, Djinn breaks from prison and instead heads to good ol' Sin City. That's right, Las Vegas, where there's no such thing as a clean soul, and EVERYONE has wishes to be granted. Morg does find out what she has to do though, which is hold the opal in her hand as she recites the proper incantation to lock Djinn back inside of it. The coolest thing about this is that part of the incantation is "Shub-Niggurath", which can only be a variation on the demon Nub-Shiggurath from the Necronomicon (Thank you HP Lovecraft!)! When it comes down to it, Morg wishes the museum guard she shot dead back to life, making her "pure", so she can recite the spell and capture Djinn... damn it, the first one was cool, but I can't watch another movie based upon how stupid people are when they make wishes... has no one heard of the Arabian Nights?! On a final note, fans of the movie NO HOLDS BARRED and assorted other forms of pop culture will recognize Tiny "Zeus" Lister as the bad ass prison guard.

Sequels: Nope

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