Starring: Tammy Lauren, Andrew Divoff, Tony Todd, Robert Englund

Before there were algorithms predicting our desires, there was the Djinn—an ancient supernatural menace with a very particular talent: taking your wishes literally, and then making you regret the grammar.

Robert Kurtzman’s 1997 horror-fantasy Wishmaster is a wonderfully unhinged collision of mythology, practical effects, ’90s genre excess and the oldest lesson in supernatural storytelling: read the fine print before you ask for anything.

Featuring Andrew Divoff as the gleefully sinister Djinn, plus a parade of horror icons in gloriously unexpected cameos, Wishmaster turns the simple act of getting what you want into an elaborate blood-soaked game of semantic loopholes.