History Film / WishUpon

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Paul, after he breaks into Clare's bedroom and she rejects him.]]

* JackassGenie: Zigzagged: Surprisingly, with the exception of Paul becoming too obsessed with Clare (even so, he never attempts to rape her), the wishes are all granted the way that the user wants them to (for example, when Clare wishes that her dad would stop embarrassing her, he simply did just that instead of dying so he could no longer do so, and when she wishes that she would be the most popular girl in school, her own popularity is simply boosted instead of the other students all dying or something.) However, for every wish that is granted, someone close to the wisher dies. There is also the fact that, when Clare wishes that her mom had never killed herself, the music box kills [[spoiler: her father]] of all people.

* TooDumbToLive: Most of the characters who die from the wishes end up dying from their own stupidity, such as standing on an unstable ladder while using a chainsaw to cut down a branch. [[spoiler: This, unfortunately, extends to Clare in the end as she might have avoided being run over had she looked both ways before crossing the street]].

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Not even wishing that she'd never found the box in the first place helps Clare escape the YourSoulIsMine clause because it still counts as the final wish necessary to enact said clause. Additionally, up to this point, she continued to selfishly call upon the box for her own personal gain even after she knew it might be killing innocent people as a side effect.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Thanks to the CruelTwistEnding, [[spoiler: Darcie not only gets relieved of her earlier comeuppance, she ends up mowing Clare down with her car (accidentally, but still) and the movie ends before we learn if she'll even face consequences for that]].

* TooDumbToLive: Most of the characters who die from the wishes end up dying from their own stupidity, such as standing on an unstable ladder while using a chainsaw to cut down a branch. [[spoiler: This, unfortunately, extends to Clare in the end as she might have avoided being run over had she looked both ways before crossing]].

* VillainousGlutton: While "villainous" is certainly a stretch, Clare's use of the music box is treated the same way as an addiction. Even when she suspects that it might be causing others harm and is advised to get rid of it by June, she holds onto it and continues to make wishes, which makes her indifferent at best.
* WhatTheHellHero: June gives one to Clare after [[spoiler: Meredith's]] death. Ryan also gives her a piece of his mind after learning how deep in she is.

* RuleOfSeven: The music box grants 7 wishes.

* SocialMediaBeforeReason: If one of your best friends has just developed necrotizing fasciitis (a.k.a. 'flesh eating disease') and is freaking out, then now is probably not the time to snap a photo of her and post it on the web.

* VillianousGlutton: While "villainous" is certainly a stretch, Clare's use of the music box is treated the same way as an addiction. Even when she suspects that it might be causing others harm and is advised to get rid of it by June, she holds onto it and continues to make wishes, which makes her indifferent at best.

* VillianouGlutton: While "villainous" is certainly a stretch, Clare's use of the music box is treated the same way as an addiction. Even when she suspects that it might be causing others harm and is advised to get rid of it by June, she holds onto it and continues to make wishes, which makes her indifferent at best.
* WhatTheHellHero: June gives one to Clare after [[spoiler: Meredith's]] death.

* ItsAllYourFault: June says this word for word to Clare after [[spoiler: Meredith's]] death.

* {{Gluttony}}: Clare's use of the music box is treated the same way as an addiction. Even when she suspects that it might be causing others harm and is advised to get rid of it by June, she holds onto it and continues to make wishes.

** [[spoiler:Clare is almost hit by a car on her way to school at the start.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Thanks to the CruelTwistEnding,[[spoiler: Darcie not only gets relieved of her earlier comeuppance, she ends up mowing Clare down with her car (accidentally, but still) and the movie ends before we learn if she'll even face consequences for that]].

* TooDumbToLive: Most of the characters who die from the wishes end up dying from their own stupidity, such as standing on an unstable ladder while using a chainsaw to cut down a branch.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Clare is almost hit by a car on her way to school at the start.]]

* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:Clare asks everything to be undone... but is still killed. And worse, the box is still at large.]]

* GardeningVarietyWeapon: When Clare spots someone spying on her bedroom, she chases after them with rake. She then almost hits her father with it when he comes up behind her.

* HopeSpot: Twice: Once when [[spoiler: Clare uses her sixth wish to undo her mother's suicide]] and another when [[spoiler: Clare uses her last wish to go back to the day she found the box and have Ryan get rid of it. Too bad making her last wish still dooms her]].

** "I wish Darcie Chapman would just, like, go '''[[MakeThemRot rot]]'''."
** Also, [[spoiler:"I wish Paul would fall [[StalkerWithACrush madly]] in love with me."]]

* PunishedWithUgly: Darcie's face begins to rot after Clare's wish, which causes her to be horribly disfigured at first and threatens to destroy most of her face. The rotting later stops, but she becomes permanently disfigured and has lost all her good looks.

* StaircaseTumble: [[spoiler:June]] falls down the stairs at while fighting with Clare over the box. She is seen lying unmoving at the foot of the stairs, but it is not clear is she alive or dead.

* StalkingIsLove: Paul, under the influence of the wish box, falls madly in love with Clare. So madly that he starts breaking into her house and taking photos of her while she sleeps.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailer gives away [[spoiler: three]] death scenes in pretty full detail [[spoiler: like who's going to die and how]]. This while the deaths in the movie are ''supposed'' to be suspenseful.

* MissingMom: The trailers have not yet shown Clare's mother, only her father. [[spoiler: The movie reveals that she committed suicide after using the music box, but she briefly reappears when Clare uses her sixth wish to undo her death.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Most of the characters who die from the wishes end up dying from their own stupidity. Standing on an unstable ladder while using a chainsaw to cut down a branch?! [[WhatAnIdiot Really?!]]

* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Averted. Meredith who is a TwoferTokenMinority being half-Black/half-Korean and Gina who is Chinese [[spoiler: both die, but neither is the first plus their deaths are erased and both are BackFromTheDead at the end of the film]].

* JackassGenie: Zigzagged: Surprisingly, with the exception of Paul becoming too obsessed with Clare (even so, he never attempts to rape her), the wishes are all granted the way that the user wants them too (for example, when Clare wishes that her dad would stop embarrassing her, he simply did just that instead of dying so he could no longer do so, and when she wishes that she would be the most popular girl in school, her own popularity is simply boosted instead of the other students all dying or something.) However, for every wish that is granted, someone close to the wisher dies. There is also the fact that, when Clare wishes that her mom had never killed herself, the music box kills [[spoiler: her father]] of all people.

* LookBothWays: [[spoiler:Clare uses her last wish to travel back in time and prevent her father from finding the wish box. She gives the backpack containing the box to Ryan and tells him bury it without opening it. Relieved of her burdern, she turns and crosses the road to go to school without checking. And is immediately struck by Darcie's car and dies.]]

* AlphaBitch: Darcie Chapman. She tends to harass Claire, leading to her wishing that Darcie would rot.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: [[spoiler:Unless the car was practically ''blasting'' towards her, there is ''no way'' Claire would've been launched up ''several feet in the air'' when she got struck, ''let alone'' in that long of a parabola.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Claire's wish to go back in time to get rid of the box has the added effect of bringing back everyone who died previously. Too bad the CruelTwistEnding kicks in and Claire herself dies in their place.]]

* BodyHorror: Claire's first wish makes Darcie Chapman rot alive.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Claire was just a little girl when she witnessed her mother's suicide.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Paul, after he breaks into Claire's bedroom and she rejects him.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler: Darcie might be a bitch, but she's still horrified when she accidentally kills Claire with her car at the end.]]
* EvilDetectingDog: Claire's dog is shown snarling at the music box both when Clare gets it and when [[spoiler: her mother throws it into the garbage]].

* GardeningVarietyWeapon: When Claire spots someone spying on her bedroom, she chases after them with rake. She then almost hits her father with it when he comes up behind her.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Claire is almost hit by a car on her way to school at the start.]]
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: The demon possessing the music box. It spends the entire film inside the music box granting wishes, never speaking or appearing in person. Even when it [[spoiler: claims Claire's soul in the end]], the demon itself never appears in person. Despite being the driving evil force behind the story, it's more of a plot point than a character. The only time it displays any character is when it [[spoiler: breaks its rule of only killing people close to the owner to kill Gina before she can warn Ryan and Claire]].

* HopeSpot: Twice: Once when [[spoiler: Claire uses her sixth wish to undo her mother's suicide]] and another when [[spoiler: Claire uses her last wish to go back to the day she found the box and have Ryan get rid of it. Too bad making her last wish still dooms her]].

* JackassGenie: Zigzagged: Surprisingly, with the exception of Paul becoming too obsessed with Claire (even so, he never attempts to rape her), the wishes are all granted the way that the user wants them too (for example, when Claire wishes that her dad would stop embarrassing her, he simply did just that instead of dying so he could no longer do so, and when she wishes that she would be the most popular girl in school, her own popularity is simply boosted instead of the other students all dying or something.) However, for every wish that is granted, someone close to the wisher dies. There is also the fact that, when Claire wishes that her mom had never killed herself, the music box kills [[spoiler: her father]] of all people.

* LookBothWays: [[spoiler:Claire uses her last wish to travel back in time and prevent her father from finding the wish box. She gives the backpack containing the box to Ryan and tells him bury it without opening it. Relieved of her burdern, she turns and crosses the road to go to school without checking. And is immediately struck by Darcie's car and dies.]]

** Also, the moderately upbeat "Careful What You Wish For" by Wayfarers playing in the end credits, directly after [[spoiler: Claire's death]].

* ShoppingMontage: Claire treats her best friends Meredith and June to one after she comes into her inheritance.

* StaircaseTumble: [[spoiler:June]] falls down the stairs at while fighting with Claire over the box. She is seen lying unmoving at the foot of the stairs, but it is not clear is she alive or dead.

* StalkingIsLove: Paul, under the influence of the wish box, falls madly in love with Claire. So madly that he starts breaking into her house and taking photos of her while she sleeps.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Claire's father finds the music box in the garbage at the old estate and gives it to his daughter as a gift. A nice and thoughtful gesture to be sure, but in doing so, he unknowingly unleashes all of the carnage that is to follow.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: [[spoiler:Unless the car was practically ''blasting'' towards her, there is ''no way'' Claire would've been launched up ''several feet in the air'' when she got struck, ''let alone'' in that small of a parabola.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Most of the characters who die from the wishes end up dying from their own stupidity. Standing on a ladder while using a chainsaw to cut down a branch?! [[WhatAnIdiot Really?!]]