Andrew Divoff is quite amusing and good as the ancient Djinn (a genie by any other name) who is awakened from his prison inside a gemstone. He can only collect souls when a person makes a wish so he goes around getting wishes granted while chasing after the woman who let him out of the stone.

This leads to a ton of gooey, fairly impressive effects in this watchable time from Hellraiser sequel scribe Peter Atkins. Only real complaints are the familiar storyline and a pretty poor heroine.

Good horror ties here too as Wes Craven was executive producer, make-up effects man Kurtzman directs, the aforementioned Atkins scripts and it features appearances by Robert Englund, Kane Hodder and other genre favs. Not a bad mindless timewaster.

Followed by three sequels.

Directed By: Robert Kurtzman.
Written By: Peter Atkins.

Starring: Tammy Lauren, Andrew Divoff, Chris Lemmon, Wendy Benson.