Re: Wish Upon (English) Mp4 Movies
Joseph Zyiuahndy
Wish Upon 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 many 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.
"Wish Upon" is another one of those movies that would be memorable if it were a lot better or a lot worse. Joey King ("Oz the Great and Powerful") stars as Claire Shannon, a teenage girl whose mother killed herself years earlier. Claire grew up into an unhappy teenager who feels like a pariah and gets bullied. She's also humiliated that her father, Jonathan (Ryan Phillippe), dumpster-dives all over town, even across the street from her school. Then her dad finds a mysterious box inscribed with Chinese characters. It's a wishing box that gives its owner seven wishes. The downside is, every time a wish comes true, somebody dies. And we're off!
"Be careful what you wish for" is the most obvious theme, but teens may also find themselves repulsed by the main character's selfish behavior and think twice about being greedy and thoughtless. Social media trolling is the norm. A shopping/spending spree is celebrated.
Parents need to know that Wish Upon is a teen horror movie with a "be careful what you wish for" theme. There are many gruesome deaths, with blood spatters, impalements, and crashes. Other violent content includes suicides (via hanging and cut wrists), teen fighting, a dead dog with its guts coming out, a violent video game, and jump scares. Teens kiss; language includes a use of "f--k," plus "s--t," "bitch," "bastard," and more. Adult characters drink beer in more than one scene, with no consequences, and opium is mentioned. With shallow characters and uninspired horror scenes, this is one of those instantly disposable movies that seem to exist only to cash in on an opening weekend before disappearing into oblivion. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.
In WISH UPON, miserable high schooler Clare Shannon (Joey King) lives with her junk-scavenging father (Ryan Phillippe) and suffers from nightmares about her mother's suicide. One day, her father presents her with a weird box. Clare makes a wish that the pretty blonde school bully will "rot," and it comes true. Curious, she then wishes that the school hunk will fall in love with her, and it happens. Soon Clare and her father move into a mansion, and their money troubles are over. But all around her, people -- and her beloved dog, Max -- start dying. With the help of childhood friend Ryan (Ki Hong Lee), Clare begins to translate the box's Chinese symbols and discovers that there are high prices to pay for her wishes. But can she stop?
This modern-day, teen-centric take on W. W. Jacobs's classic horror story The Monkey's Paw is a not-scary dud that suffers from both uninspired scares ad extremely shallow, annoying characters. "What's wrong with you?," characters keep asking Clare -- and viewers are likely to be wondering the same thing. Screenwriter Barbara Marshall (Terra Nova) and director John R. Leonetti (Annabelle) fail to paint Clare as a truly desperate character: She's cute, she has two best friends, a home, a loving father, and so on. Her life isn't terrible enough to risk everything on deadly wishes, and it's hard to root for her.
After: I do like that Clare wishes for stupid stuff that most high-school kids would wish for. She acts on impulse, which feels real. Unfortunately, the film never takes the time to play anything out, opting instead for jumping from wish/death to wish/death with reckless aplomb. Whee! #sarcasm
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Wish Upon stars Fake Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls) and Fake Ryan Phillippe (who turned out to be REAL Ryan Phillippe. Who knew!?). Fake Bledel gets a gizmo that gives her the ability to make wishes and prove that she is the most self-centered person on Earth. Which is laid out by Barb from Stranger Things, reprising her role, sans glasses, plus military jacket.
Also, of course, the wish-granting device takes a terrible toll. If you consider the death of people you only kind of know or maybe only met once (seriously, like the sister of a guy you sit in front of in class) to be a terrible toll.
Anyway, Jonathan turns trash to treasure when he gives the Chinese music box he found in a dumpster to his daughter. Naturally, Clare clutches the music box and wishes for the mean popular girl at school to rot, thus setting off a chain of wishes followed by horrible consequences.
Proving my point about bad parenting, Clare buys her and her friends $800 handbags, while continuing to rack up a body count with her wishes. You would expect all this newfound wealth would be enough to keep Jonathan from sifting through trash, right? Right?!
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I fear, however, that someone evil is setting up a franchise of unscary low-budget horror crap, including prequels, in which a succession of dull people make obvious wishes with the box and pay for them in completely unsurprising ways.
Things get really out of hand with the boys when their next door neighbor, who had a crush on Haley from the beginning, starts to feel like his personality is more compatible with Alexia (who is actually Hayley!). That night, Haley wishes on a star to become herself again, but the next morning she wakes up and she is still Alexia. She thinks that they will be trapped forever as each other, but the real reason that they did not switch back is that Alexia also made the wish. But you already know that because I told you that in second paragraph. Anyway, they tearfully admit to one another finally about how they hated themselves and wanted to be one another. They hurry outside to find a shooting star, which of course they do because this town is FULL of shooting stars. They switch back and are all the better for having not been themselves for a while.
The movie taught me so much about life in general. I learned that some kids call their parents by their first names, what stick shift is, what a hickey is, different ways to make wishes, including breaking wishbones and throwing pennies in a toilet, and that some people vandalize bathrooms with lipstick. Who knew that a made-for-TV movie could instill so much knowledge?
The song has been universally praised since its release, with its theme relating to wishes, dreams, and magic; all of which have become synonymous with the Disney brand. The song has since become the official anthem of The Walt Disney Company as a whole, having been used as the theme for the Walt Disney anthology series since 1954, and played alongside the Walt Disney Pictures logo at the beginning of many films since 1985.
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