9 More Horror Movie Wishes That Went Horribly Wrong

9. Colour Out Of Space: Wishing To Leave The Farm

This film has earned a bit of a reputation as another bonkers Nic Cage flick, similar to 2018’s Mandy. But this sci-fi horror has so much more going for it that than that, including a wish that arguably sets the whole plot rolling along its path of Lovecraftian madness.

In the opening scene, Wiccan daughter Lavinia (played by Madeleine Arthur) wishes for her mother’s cancer to be eradicated by appealing to otherworldly and higher powers. Oh, and she happens to use the Necronomicon.

This fictional staple of Lovecraft’s world never has anything good come from it – just ask Ash from the Evil Dead movies, he’ll tell you!

The meteorite that then crashes onto the idyllic alpaca farm is arguably summoned by Lavinia’s meddling with forces she doesn’t understand, but she doesn’t stop there!

When things get increasingly worse for the family, Lavinia again decides to draw on her trusty little book of evil and destruction to wish to be taken out of this mess and leave the farm. A bit of incantation here, bit of self mutilation for a blood sacrifice there, and the deal is sealed.

At the end of the film, Lavinia’s family are dead and she becomes fully absorbed into the entity from the meteorite itself, vanishing into the aether. So she did leave the farm as she wished to… just not as she had planned.