YMMV / Wishmaster

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Peter Atkins sees the Djinn as looking out for his race instead of a being of pure evil.
• Complete Monster: The Djinn, pseudonym Nathaniel Demerest, is one of the cruelest of his race. Granting wishes and stretching them to their worst outcome based on the word choice of the wisher, intending to grant three wishes from his "waker" to bringing eternal damnation and suffering to the human race. Millennia ago, the Djinn granted a sultan's wish to be shown wonders by transforming his people into hideous monsters. In present-day Los Angeles, the Djinn afflicts a pharmacist with cancer; turns a woman into a mannequin; blows up an entire plane to kill one woman; and keeps the souls of the wishers in his hellish realm. The Djinn causes an art gallery to come to life and slaughter a party, attempting to coerce the lead heroine into making her final wish by threatening her sister's life. In the second movie, the Djinn collects souls in prison, telekinetically pushes a man through the bars of a holding cell, and forces prisoners to beat each other to death. When he escapes, the Djinn kills his partner, crucifies a priest, and unleashes hell upon a casino.
• Creepy Awesome: The Djinn, particularly when he's played by Andrew Divoff.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Buck Flower's character wishes for the pharmacist to "get cancer and die". The result is gruesome, but so over the top and unrealistic that it crosses into hilarious. Seeing how Flower died of cancer six years later, it's more tragic than funny now.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Robert Englund, Andrew Divoff and Tony Todd who all appeared in the first film, would later appear in the Call of Duty video game franchise with Englund being a playable character in Call of Duty: Zombies, Divoff playing Lev Kravchenko in Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Todd playing Admiral Briggs in Call of Duty: Black Ops II which re-credits him with Divoff despite not sharing a scene together unlike the first film.
• I Am Not Shazam: The villain is sometimes referred to as being "Wishmaster" by people describing the film. The villain is not called Wishmaster; that's just a role he fulfills. He's the Djinn. In the second film he does refer to himself as the Wishmaster as a title, not a proper name.
• Just Here for Godzilla: You might not have known what to expect while watching the first movie, but as befits a Villain-Based Franchise, few people can probably claim to have watched the sequels for anything other than the Djinn working his magic.
• Sequelitis: The second movie was acceptable, while 3 and 4 were Direct to Video sequels made simultaneously, discarded canon "rules", and didn't have the original actor.
• So Bad, It's Good: The acting in these movies is... dubious, at best.

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