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WishUpon is a 2017 American supernatural horror film, directed by John R. Leonetti, written by Barbara Marshall, and starring Joey King, Ki Hong Lee, Sydney Park, Shannon Purser, Sherilyn Fenn, Elisabeth Rohm, and Ryan Phillippe. The film follows a teenage girl who is given a magic musicbox that grants seven wishes, but kills someone close to her each time it does.

Her father, Jonathan, who becomes a hoarder and dumpster diver, finds a Chinese music box and gives it to Clare. Clare deciphers one of the inscriptions on the box as "Seven Wishes," and absentmindedly wishes for Darcie, her school bully, to "rot," at which point Darcie develops necrotizing fasciitis. That same day, Clare's dog Max dies in her house's crawlspace. Clare deduces the box grants wishes.

Clare makes a second wish that a popular boy named Paul would fall madly in love with her and he does (so much so he starts to stalk her). That same night Clare's wealthy great-uncle dies. Hearing this, Clare wishes to be in his will, which rewrites itself and leaves everything to Clare. Consequently, friendly neighbor Mrs. Deluca perishes as her hair gets caught in the kitchen waste disposal, breaking her neck.

Clare enlists the help of her Asian classmate, Ryan Hui, to decipher the symbols on the box. His cousin Gina is able to decipher that each of the seven wishes comes with consequences. They now understand the link of wishes to catastrophes. The trio's research reveals the box belonged to a Chinese woman named Lu Mei; during a 1910 outbreak of bubonic plague in China, Mei's family was forcibly quarantined in a railroad car where all but Mei died. Mei prayed for revenge at a temple and offered up her family's only valuable heirloom, the music box, as a sacrifice, at which point a demonic Yaoguai spirit cursed the music box. After using the box to get her revenge, Mei committed suicide, with the box later passing through a string of owners, all suffering tragic fates.

Gina emails the text to an associate for help with the deciphering. Clare makes a fourth wish that her father will stop being so embarrassing; he stops dumpster diving and starts playing the saxophone again. Soon after, Gina and her associate decipher the meaning of the final phrase: "When the music ends, the blood price is paid." Before she can warn Ryan, Gina is impaled on a statue in her loft and dies. After Ryan finds Gina's body, he confronts Clare about making a wish, which she denies.

Clare makes a fifth wish that she be popular, but is soon unhappy with the consequent attention and losing her relationship with her old friends, Meredith and June. Shortly afterwards, Meredith dies when the elevator she's in plummets 30 floors.

While comforting Clare, Ryan reveals that after the seventh wish, the Yaoguai will claim the soul of the box's owner. They go to her house and unsuccessfully try to destroy the box. Clare hides the box in an air vent. Her friend June steals the box, knowing Clare won't get rid of it. Per the rules of the wishes, Clare loses everything she had wished for. When Clare wrestles the box back from June, she causes June to fall down a staircase to serious injury.

Clare is able to find the box moments before her father, preventing the tragic sequence of events. Clare goes to school and asks Ryan to bury the box for her, kisses him, then walks into the street and is killed when she's accidentally hit by Darcie's car, the Yaoguai having claimed her soul.

Director John R. Leonetti summarized Wish Upon as different from similar "The Monkey's Paw"-esque stories for the depth of the character Clare, particularly her tough childhood and the inability to stop using the music box even as she realizes what it really does.[3]

The film is loosely based on W. W. Jacobs' short story The Monkey's Paw. The film's screenplay was voted to the 2015 Black List.[4] Catherine Hardwicke was originally planned to direct the film, but she later was removed from the project. Afterward, producer Sherryl Clark sent a draft of the script to John R. Leonetti; he explained that while he did enjoy the script, "I didn't completely jump on at first because I had other things going on."[5] However, another draft sent by Clark four months later caught his eyeballs, and he took on directing duties from there.[5] While most of the contents of the original drafts were seen in the final cut, there were alterations. A sequence where Carl almost gets hit by a truck, which referenced Billy Hitchcock's death in Final Destination (2000), was removed as the filmmakers ultimately didn't want to make a Final Destination-esque product.[5] During filming, the scene of Jonathan in his car with a flat tire was pulled "right out of our ass" to serve as a diversion to Meredith's elevator death.[5]

On July 27, 2016, it was announced that Wish Upon would be directed by John R. Leonetti.[6] The film is produced by Sherryl Clark from her production company, Busted Shark Productions,[7] and written by Barbara Marshall.[6] In August 2016, Joey King was cast in the film's lead role,[8] and on November 9, 2016, Ki Hong Lee was announced to have also joined.[7] King was Leonetti's first choice for Clare Shannon, as the two previously worked together on The Conjuring (2013); and the director wanted to feature Shannon Purser in the film after seeing her in Stranger Things.[9] The film began production in November 2016 in Toronto.[10] Shot on an Arri Alexa at 3.4K resolution, Wish Upon was directed by Leonetti to look natural, departing from the stylized visual aesthetics of other horror films.[11]

Wish Upon was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on October 10, 2017. The Blu-ray also includes the director's Unrated Cut of the movie which is one minute longer and favoured by the director.[16]

The film received negative reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 19% of 94 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.0/10. The website's consensus reads: "Wish Upon is neither scary nor original, but its fundamental flaws as a horror movie may make it destination viewing for after-midnight camp genre enthusiasts."[22] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 32 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.[23]

Andrew Barker of Variety wrote, "By any normal standards, teen horror flick Wish Upon is a pretty bad movie. But its badness is of such a distinct and kooky character that it can't help but exert an inadvertent charm."[24] The Observer's Simran Hans gave it 2/5 stars, writing, "Fashioning itself as a teen horror, Wish Upon is far too tame for most actual adolescents".[25] Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph wrote, "Wish Upon tries to put a millennial spin on the premise, but fumbles everything it sets out to do so extravagantly, the film itself feels like the result of some kind of diabolical, chimpanzee-fingered pact." He gave it 1/5 stars.[26] The Times's Ed Potton also gave it 1/5 stars, writing, "Seldom has a teen protagonist been as annoying as the one in this high-concept high-school horror... Somewhere in here there's a message about the perils of peer pressure and the cruelty of social media, but it's submerged below all the stagey angst and telegraphed peril. By the end you're hoping that Clare gets her just deserts."[27]

Emily Yoshida of Vulture called the film "a deeply silly midsummer lark that makes up for the fact that it's about nothing by being incredibly entertaining."[28] The San Francisco Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub called it "a summer movie that delivers a lowest-common-denominator good time, and mostly succeeds", and gave it 2/4 stars.[29]

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