History YMMV / Wishmaster

* HarsherInHindsight: Buck Flower's character wishes for the pharmacist to "get cancer and die". The result is gruesome, [[CrossesTheLineTwice 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. For that matter, the scene where the plane blows up might be a little harder to laugh at after 9/11.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Second movie was acceptable, while 3 and 4 were DirectToVideo sequels made simultaneously, discarded canon "rules", and didn't have the original actor.

* CompleteMonster: [[JackassGenie The Djinn]], pseudonym Nathaniel Demerest, is one of the cruelest of his race. Granting wishes and stretching them to [[LiteralGenie their worst outcome]] based on [[ExactWords the word choice]] of the wisher, intending to grant three wishes from his "waker" to bringing [[HellOnEarth 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 [[Film/Wishmaster2EvilNeverDies the second movie]], the Djinn collects souls in prison, telekinetically pushes a man through the bars of a holding cell and forcing prisoners to beat each other to death. When he escapes, the Djinn kills his partner, crucifies a priest, and unleashes hell upon a casino.

* CompleteMonster: [[JackassGenie The Djinn]], pseudonym Nathaniel Demerest, is one of the cruelest of his race. He grants wishes--[[LiteralGenie stretching them to their worst possible outcome]] based on the [[ExactWords word choice of the wisher]]--with the intention of granting three wishes from his "waker" to release his kind upon the Earth, bringing [[HellOnEarth eternal damnation and suffering to the human race]]. Prior to his [[SealedEvilInACan imprisonment]], he granted a sultan's wish to be shown wonders by transforming his people into hideous monsters. In present day-Los Angeles, he left a trail of dead: afflicting a pharmacist with cancer; [[AndIMustScream turning a woman into a mannequin]]; blowing up an entire plane to kill one woman; and coercing other victims into wishing they were dead. He keeps the souls of the wishers trapped in his realm to be tormented for all eternity. At the climax, the Djinn transforms a man's party into a nightmare, causing his gallery to come to life and slaughter the guests, then tries to coerce the lead heroine into making her final wish by threatening her sister's life. He [[Film/Wishmaster2EvilNeverDies later returns]].

* IdiotPlot: The entirety of the first movie's events (sans the massacre at the sultan's court) could have been prevented if ''one man had not been drinking on the job.'' [[spoiler: Fortunately, this is exactly what gets wished for at the end.]]
** The Djinn could easily have won and gotten his three wishes if he hadn't acted like an ObviouslyEvil JackassGenie throughout the whole movie (and the sequel; the second Djinn in the third and fourth films is a bit less bad about it, but still StupidEvil). It never seems to occur to him that his target might have more than happy to grant him three wishes if she thought he was a BenevolentGenie rather than a blatantly sadistic psychopath bent on [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Buck Flower's character wishes for the pharmacist to "get cancer and die". The result is gruesome, [[CrossesTheLineTwice 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. For that matter, the scene where the plane blows up might be a little harder to laugh at post-9/11.