Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2001) Online

I'm going to be frank. When I first saw Wishmaster back in 1997, I was greatly impressed. Here was a brave little film that: a) Stayed away from the teen horror genre (hiring hip teens to be butchered left and right) and hired unknowns. b) Was an homage to the splatterfests that haunted the screens from the late 70s to the early 90s (including the Freddy, Jason, and Pinhead films) c) Had some interesting cameos by some of the biggest horror stars, including Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees), and Tony Todd (Candyman). All you needed was Doug Bradley (Pinhead) and Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface) and you would have a full house! d) Introduced us to a frightening screen villain that joined the ranks of the classics: the Djinn.

What made the Djinn so eerie was his cruel wish-making and, of course, the voice and presence of Andrew Divoff.

When I first heard that they made Wishmaster 3 and Wishmaster 4 together and with a new actor as the Djinn, I was a bit disappointed. How could they replace the best actor to play the Djinn? It's like replacing Doug Bradley and Robert Englund and having Pinhead and Freddy played by Ewan McGregor and Seann William Scott. And when I finally saw Wishmaster 3, my worst fear had come true. I thought that Wishmaster 2 was pretty bad enough, especially with the Djinn design change, but when I saw this one, I was so insulted by it, I started thinking that Wishmaster 2 was a masterpiece.

I had a few main problems with the film.

A) The lame wishes. If the wish was grotesque, it was ridiculous. The exploding heart, grotesque. The professor being ravaged by the demon women, ridiculous.

B) The acting. The actors are talented people, but they acted like they didn't even WANT to be in the movie. A.J. Cook (talented, but bad material), Tobias Mehler (good actor, bad projects (especially that Godforsaken Carrie remake!!!), and Jason Connery (who doesn't seem to have as great an acting capability as his father) just never seem to be believable.

C) The Djinn himself. With Andrew Divoff, even in the most ridiculous scenes imaginable, he always found a way to make the Djinn dark and scary. With John Novak filling his shoes, he's degenerated the Djinn into a second-class jokester (think of Freddy in the later sequels).

D) St. Michael being the Djinn's nemesis? Does this even need to be talked about?

If you want to rent a good horror film, rent either Jeepers Creepers, the original Wishmaster, or Jason X (not 100% horror, but it's much more entertaining), or go to the theaters and see The Ring, Final Destination 2, or Darkness Falls. Just avoid Wishmaster 3: The Sword of Justice (or Beyond the Gates of Hell, whetever the Hell they decide to call it this week) like the plague!

this movie is a disgrace to the Wishmaster series it falls into the new age teen thrillers unlike the first two that were purely and simplely horror without even bothering with teen relationships. Andrew Divoff will always be the Wishmaster to me.

what this movie needs is a good screenplay, but no they stuck with this piece of crap. on a review i did before on the movie ripper(good=7/10), i said a movie needed to be bloody, gory and fun, they got the blood and gore they just need fun, and that ruined the whole movie, and it's sad because i'm a fan of a.j. cook and horror movies, this just didn't work, sorry a.j. but i must tell the people to skip it.

Bad=4/10 (sorry a.j.)

For the third time, the evil Wishmaster return with more evil and grotesque to wreck the life of more innocents. This time, his victim is a beautiful, innocent and studious teenage girl named Diana Collins who accidentally opened up the Djinn from his tomb and released him. After the freedom, the Djinn went into a murderous frenzy though her college campus and he is trying to find Diana to fulfill her three wishes. Whilst Diana is in the run, she must endeavor to prevent the Djinn and complete the heavy task to free the entire world from Hell's wrath. Really, really lame. Wishmaster was a pretty decent horror film, but part two was garbage and this...Well, words fail me. The acting is atrocious! John Novak is terrible as the Djinn! How he's starred in so many films I don't know. The gore is plentiful but unconvincing (Done by SOTA effects, there kind of like a poor man's KNB FX. They also did the effects for 'Amityville: Dollhouse')and the Wishmaster himself is looking as fake as ever. A very bad, unwatchable film. Proof that you don't have to go to film school in order to make movies. 1/10.

First of all,Wishmaster 1 and 2 were great movies,but Wishmaster 3 sucks ass!The one thing I didnt like about this movie,was that they ruined the whole concept of the Djinn,his make-up looks like it was from a low budget horror movie that came from the sixties or something.Another thing that they messed up on,was the Djinn's voice,it doesnt sound original anymore,it just sounds like a classic devil voice.When you look back to Wishmaster 1,you'll see that the plot is original,and that it was a masterpiece,but in part 3,the story is cheap and corny.In the first movie,the main character was smart,she used the three wishes to destroy the Djinn,in this one,they have to impale him with a sword from heaven in order to kill him,but really,that doesnt work at all!!The acting was very very crappy,none of the actors give any felling to the movie whatsoever.It seems like the director wanted to spice up the movie by adding lots of blood and gore,but really,all the gore effects look really bad,the scene where the Djinn slices off the professer's face,looks very crappy.I should also mention that the special effects was a joke.I'm serious about this,the movie made me depressed for a short period of time.I hate this movie with all my heart. I wish that every single copy of Wishmaster 3 would just banish into a crap filled sewer.I give this movie a 0 out of 10,I hate it that much.

I thought WISHMASTER was really, really good...especially since Andrew Divoff did such an amazing job...WISHMASTER 2 wasn't much but DIVOFF still made it very entertaining. I can't tell you how awful Wishmaster 3 is...It's not Divoff and the new Wishmaster isn't scary or even intimidating. The story sucks...Watch the first one again...it's not even worth the rental price.

Now after seeing the first 2 'Wishmaster' movies, I had high expectations for this movie. Apparently, they were too high...what hurts this movie, is that it's a total 360 turn from the first 2 movies. What this movie tries to be is a 'Scream' & a "I Know What You Did Last Summer" movie...which isn't saying too much, since they were mere silly movies, than horror movies. Too many just average actors & no pazzazz to it. Jason Connery as the human form of the Djinn isn't convincing. Andrew Divoff, who played the first Djinn character, was great. Such evilness to him. If you're a fan of the first movies, go see it, but don't expect a horror movie.

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I saw this the other day with a friend of mine. He HATED it. Despised it. There was just something about the Wishmaster that rubbed him the wrong way. I think he may have been too goofy for him. The ending was pretty weak too. I didn't think "Wishmaster 3" was that bad. But I was shouted down with "WOW! That movie sucked! I wish it away!" I had to protect the movie before it was thrown against the wall.

The Wishmaster is released from his prison and goes about being all the demon he can be. He prowls around a college campus looking for the girl who let him out. If he can grant her wishes, the world will be destroyed. Of course it will.

The Wishmaster doesn't play fair with his wishes. No matter what you wish for, you will pay dearly. Even the most innocuous wish will result in an extremely painful death. You can wish for a cute puppy and a little dog will spring out of nowhere and lunge for your throat. But he's so cute! Even if the Wishmaster doesn't ask for a wish and you're just standing around mumbling to yourself, "I wish I had some more money", a gold bar will land on your skull. Didn't see that coming did ya?!

Maybe the movie is trying to say we should stop wishing our lives away. We daydream of a better life and the Wishmaster gives us a fatal reality check. I kind of liked the Wishmaster and his unfair Death Wishes. It worked for me.

The first two were some of the best horror I have seen but this one....UGH...I wish I had a wish cause then I would rewind time and stop myself from renting it! The "Djinn" in this one doesnt even sound evil! Costumes are not worth mentioning and the setting....OMG how much worse can one film get! It has ruined the whole bloody series! The Djinn in the first and second ones sounded so satanic I was glued to my seat but this new guy is pure sh*t...Also the special effects and gore can be easily equaled by any childrens cartoon or movie. I mean come on it was 2001 and thats ALL they could come up with??? I've seen more realistic effects created by my 6 year old cousin in his backgarden with a sparkler! And he didnt have a budget of a film company! If the 4th one is like this someone please kill me!

Diana Collins (A.J.Cook – ‘Final Destination 2') unwittingly awakes the malicious Djinn (John Novak) who quickly assumes the identity of college professor Joel Barash (Jason Connery). The Djinn then enters a cat and mouse game with Diana in a bid to persuade her to make three wishes and thus condemning the world to an eternity of suffering.

This second sequel is the first movie in the series not to feature Andrew Divoff in the role of the Djinn. Instead, two people play the role, Connery plays the Djinn in human form and Novak assumes the character of the Djinn in demon form. Connery, to his credit, was not as bad a choice as I had first suspected. He managed to portray the Djinn with almost the right air of malevolence. However, Connery's near-powerful performance was let down by the performances of the rest of the cast. Even A.J. Cook, who put in a fairly good performance two years later in ‘Final Destination 2', really failed to impress as she came off as dry, unenthusiastic and generally monotonous.

The movie itself started off reasonably well enough but eventually degenerated into a tedious and overly dragging example of bad horror filmmaking. The plot became very predictable and the screenplay just did not flow well and left the film with continuous moments of pointless, and forced, dialogue. On top of this the script seemed to show little tangency with the previous instalments and, as with ‘Wishmaster 2', the `rules' of how the Djinn can interact with humans was changed. Also added were some unnecessary and (in many cases) ludicrous plot twists that made ‘Wishmaster 3' all that more difficult to watch. There was however some impressive (and plentiful) gore effects, though these were overshadowed by the overuse of cheap looking and unnecessary CGI. Chris Angel's direction was also of a very low standard as it showed little inspiration or creativity. In fact, the scenes stolen from the previous two instalments were robbed of any darkness that was evident in the other movies.

Overall this is a very poor movie and only just on the same level as the previous instalment. Up to now I have not been a fan of the ‘Wishmaster' franchise, and this movie has done nothing to change my mind. Fans of the original might enjoy this more than I did, though many may not be very accepting of the new Djinn. This movie is not one I would recommend and probably only worth watching if nothing else is on TV. Uninspired, poorly directed and generally dull. My rating for ‘Wishmaster 3: Devil Stone' – 3.5/10.

The fist movie i saw at the cinema and enjoyed the second wasnt as good but the excellent Andrew Divoff made it still worth watching.this third movie does not have the star of the first two movies.its like having freddy played by someone other that Robert Englund.Jason Connery is no match for Divoff.I dare say that Divoff didnt like the script,i know i didnt.the acting was lame the fx even worse.i own the first two on dvd but this rubbish will not grace my dvd shelf.

This movie was a real disappointment. Without the presence of Andrew Divoff playing the Djinn, every other good aspect of the previous two movies seem to have left with him. There sincerely isn't anything good I can say about this movie. The plot is full of holes, the acting is very, very bad and the special effects, well, let's say they're even worse than the acting. Moreover, it's boring, boy is it bo-ring.

My advice is to leave this one on the shelf and watch the first two movies instead, they really can't be compared to this stinker.

Avoid! 1/10

Once again The Wishmaster returns but this time Andrew Divoff does not . Instead he is replace by John Novak who is just terrible in the role . He comes across as a fat idiot in make up . The Djin's human form is played by Jason Connery who isn't bad but he lacks the charm and wickedness of Andrew Divoff.

The Special effects are a notch better than those found in part 2 but they are nowhere near as good as those of the first movie .

Another problem with this film is the writting . The dialogue is just terrible .

All things considered this is a rather poor sequel . Not recommended !

Ok I can understand that the movie being different than the first 2 is a little disappointing but I also would like to point out a few things, First....who said it was the same Djin as in the first 2?? Is there not more than one Djin in the history? I came to this conclusion when this gem came out of a box that dated back to the persian empire...If they couldn't get Andrew Divoff to play the Djin again than this is a good way of getting around that... Ok now for the bashing...very campy 80's style movie...shows a lot of tits which the first 2 did nothing of. Bad acting from all concerned in the movie, and there was no emotional tie that connected me to the characters. Only problem I have with the different Djins is this....when researching the legends how can each person only come up with the legend of the Djin they are fighting. I just watched the lecture he gave on the Djins and the Trojan war and am pleased with how he mentioned more than one which proves my point of him not being the Djin from the orginals. So in conclusion...bad acting...not too bad story.

This installment just didn't do it for me. The wonderfully rich, well-researched story line has gone to h3ll in a hand basket. The acting quality is not up to par and I find the whole production to be quite disappointing as a whole.

It rips off Hellraiser with the "puzzle box" and a plethora of other movies. I really found the Djinn's constant metamorphosis to be unsettling and just wrong. He looks different in each and every installment. That's messed up.

And the fake accents throughout this production are BAD; obviously fake, and they don't seem to care. Sex is used as a sorry substitution for a good story (something used as a distraction device by lesser directors and those lacking in talent and creativity) and the effects were better in "Howard the Duck," than in this.

The invocation of the Archangel Michael renders this one a rip off of the movie Michael, as well, which done around the same time, and the flaming sword is really idiotic. I was very disappointed in this installment. I enjoyed the first, but as usual, the third movie in the set just reeks of bad acting, horrid direction and a total change in cast members. Apparently they thought that by keeping the Djinn mainly in his Djinn form, we would not notice the disappearance of Michael Divoff. You can sure tell that Wes Craven did not produce more than the first of these awful movies. That, and the obvious mainstream socioreligious connotations just ruined this whole series for me.

Actually, Howard the Duck was a much better movie!

It gets a 1.0/10 from...

the Fiend :.

First of all this was a different djinn. He wasn't the same one that was in the first two movies.they had more than one djinn.all of the djinns wasn't the same.

CAUTION: SPOILERS!!!!!!!! This movie is about 12 steps down from the first one. First of all, I don't care what anyone says, the actor who plays the Djinn in this one, John Novak is totally NOT intimidating at all!!!!! In the behind the scenes extras on Wishmaster 1, Director Robert Kurtzman specifically says that he wanted to stay away from a story that revolved around teenagers and 20 somethings who were merely cannon fodder for the Djinn to go through like Kleenex. So as you can imagine, I was saddened to see that the setting is on a college campus, and that the story revolves around young 20 somethings. They basically did the complete opposite of what made the first movie so awesome!! Plus, the Djinn barely appears in his true form at all through this sleeping pill of a film. The story also takes an unexpected, yet unfortunate turn when the waker, A.J.(Diana Collins), wishes for the spirit of the archangel Michael (no I'm not making this up) to come and help her defeat the Djinn. MY GOD, I wish they had never made this movie!!!!!!!!!

I haven't seen the first couple WISHMASTERS -- apparently they play rather close to the traditional notion of the "supernatural wish that takes an unexpected turn" kind of thing. It's essentially a morality tale. Here, though, the wishes are pretty pro-forma, as are the nasty twists: just an excuse to show a lot of gore. Not a bad amount of gore, at that: the director makes wise use of his budget.

The plot is obvious, the solution to the problem pretty easy to spot early on. The characters are all annoying crybabies, especially the men. There's too many fake scares. The Wishmaster ill-advisedly becomes Sean Connery's son sometime during the proceedings, generally not a good idea as Jason Connery looks like a prematurely balding college professor, not a Demon From Hell. There's some nudity, though, which is good.

Generally not worth paying much for, but if you find it for a couple of dollars, the way I did, you might be amused by it.

This was the first Wishmaster film I watched on TV and I liked it, it actually got me into the Wishmaster films. I like Andrew Divoff's performance as the Djinn because he gives him a real creepiness while John Novak gives the Djinn a Freddy type character but I still like it.

The only disappointment was that we don't see the Djinn as much as the previous films but it still doesn't make a really bad film. Jason Connery tries hard to live up to the Djinn's performance when his in human form.

Wishmaster 4 is slightly better than Wishmaster 3 but check this one out if you're looking for something to watch on a night.

it's said that they decided to delivery a 2000s teenager movie with it's worst in it. were are all the good gore and jokes? the actor that replaced the Djinn is real bad. we just continue to watch this hoping that the end it's going to be, at least, nice. and the other actors don't help in it. actually, the Djinn isn't the central character of the movie. they changed everything that was good and replaced for some "Scream" s#it version.

Sean Connery's son, Jason Connery, stars in this third film in the Wishmaster franchise about an evil wish granting genie (or Djinn). The first sequel was surprisingly entertaining with a story about the Djinn wreaking havoc in a prison. This third sequel about the Djinn once again getting released and again trying to start the end of the world is less fun. This entry is set on college campus, but really doesn't offer much. The special effects are weak, the black humor seems to be absent, and worst of all Andrew Divoff is missing as the evil Wishmaster. You're best off skipping this sequel.

Alright, I watched the first and second Wishmaster and I enjoyed both movies.

Let's be honest, those are not great movies, and technically not good, but enjoyable: cheesy on many levels, stereotypical of b-series horror movies with a dash of comedy, on the wholesome, enjoyable, not good.

But this pile of... well, brown matter that would definitely attract dung beetles and flies galore was just awful...

The problem of many B-series as of late, say for the past 20 years, is the obvious influence that Buffy or Charmed had on some directors or writers, drowning the horror-comedy aspect (why did you have to go with that angel OR THOSE VOICES FOR THE TWO ADVERSARIES or that stupid sword fight), which is bad, m'kayyyyy. Second, changing the make-up and look of the Djinn, making it look... Faker then the two previous movies, how is that even possible. Not to mention how they try to make the story seem serious which is *buzzer sound* NOPE, THIS IS NOT THE WAY, that's a huge buzz-kill. It's a B-movie, it's supposed to be slightly ridicule, cheesy and hardly believable which is then redeemed by the villain, him killing his audience with cracks, literally and main protagonist. But trying to turn it into something to be taken seriously, character wise and story wise in a bad setting, is baaaad, m'kay?! Especially when there's bad directing, bad acting, low budget and bad effects/make-up: If it's not cheesy, it's even lower then porn.

It felt like watching Hellraiser Hellworld or that other one: Revelations. In fact, here's another thing that really ticks me off, WHY THE HELL (see what I did there? hell, *chuckles*) MUST IT BE A FREAKING FEMALE PROTAGONIST IN ALL THESE HORROR TITLES, WHYYYY!?! AND THE BAD ACTING DRAMATIC WHINY WINONA RYDER TYPE WITH LESS EMOTION!? Why a high school, a college, teenagers or a suburb, why not in freaking SPACE or in Las Vegas or even Rome!? Anyways, I could go on explaining how this movie goes wrong so many times in so many ways, I'll just say this, if you enjoyed the movie, good on you, I don't know how you do it. If you want to spare yourself the torture of watching this or the fast-forward-fest, skipping through all the bad only the get... well, not even a scrap of good, don't watch, go watch the first and/or second one then skip on that one, HECK, after seeing the fourth which I won't bother to write a critic about, just walk straight on by and avoid both the turd (see what I did there, 3rd, turd... anyways) and the fourth. Spare yourself, run for your life.

After finding a sacred jewel, a troubled college student learns she has unleashed a powerful Djinn who begins to terrorize her friends around campus to get her to free other enslaved beings like him and forces her to stop him.

This turned out to be quite a decent if slightly flawed effort. One of the better aspects here is the fact that, despite the rather limited amount of action here this one still manages to remain pretty interesting throughout here by keeping up a solid, workable pace that keeps things moving along. The discovery is made quite early on and it's a short time after when the true threat of his deceiving is revealed which makes his threat somewhat constant around them so that keeps the first half going pretty smoothly with the different displays of his possession on both her friends and students which makes these quite fun with all the temptations to his new identity going over their heads. Those play into the fact that the second half is built a lot more on the chase established from these scenes as the race to her him under control and stop tormenting her friends, and the action scenes here which includes the church ambush with its resulting spiritually-charged battle, the battle in the dorms and finally the big car chase which all plays together into some fun times throughout here. These here do manage to help this out and overcome its flaws but there are still a few prominent ones here. The most notable one here is the fact that there's so little interest in the threat generated here despite the fact that the creature is trying to overthrow the world yet it never really gives that off in how relaxed they are towards his taunting behavior towards them and how long the whole thing takes to sink in for the group to believe. It may actually have gone over better if the Djinn had any real motivating factor here, as all he does is go after the friends when he has a connection with her and could find her immediately so playing around how lamely he does here just doesn't come off well. The last area here that's quite weak is the finale, which is way too abrupt and doesn't really resolve any of the story lines featured, even her back- story that wit was setting up from the start. Otherwise, there's not a whole lot really wrong here and it's much better than expected.

Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language, Brief Nudity, and a brief sex scene.

Considering I haven't watched the previous movies and don't watch many old time horrors this movie was great.

The storyline was good and kept you thinking throughout the whole movie but was also pretty predictable which occurs in most movies now anyway.

The Gore and the graphics were good considering it was made quite a few years ago and isn't as horrifying as say ghost ship but still good graphics.

The movie jumped strait into the story line with not much back story but it worked for this movie and was very glad I didn't need to watch the previous movies to understand what was going on.

Overall very excited to watch number 4 and will defiantly give older movies a chance in the future.

Divoff is out and our new Djinn loses his charisma, sense of humor, and imagination. You felt as though Divoff's Djinn could come up with the weirdest deaths, these ones are pretty basic. One man asks for the two women he most desires to love him. They end up just scratching him to death. It confused me. One great opportunity has a guy say "Blow me!" We all know what our previous Djinn would have done. Here however Djinn takes into consideration budgetary concerns and how much effort will have to be put into the effect. At least this time the protagonist is more likable, but we don't see these films for the leading lady. It's similar, run of the mill stuff, but less gory and less fun.