10 Awesome Horror Movie Villains With Stupid One Weakness
1. It's REALLY Easy To Screw With The Wishmaster
Produced by Wes Craven and directed by make-up effects wizard Robert Kurtzman, Wishmaster is about an ancient Djinn unleashed in modern Los Angeles who will grant the wish of anyone who asks - with some sort of twisted, usually fatal catch mixed in. He's like a really shady real estate agent who will, by law, disclose the gruesome murders that occurred in your future home, but leave out the bodies of Native Americans the housing community was founded upon.
He's released when the crate carrying the artifact in which he's imprisoned is dropped by a drunk crane operator and pawned on the street. Soon, he's a surprisingly suave Andrew Divoff, wandering the streets and granting three wishes to wealthy collectors of antiquities.
It's a pleasantly gory affair, with welcome cameos from horror legends such as Robert Englund and Tony Todd, but the Djinn's flaw is fairly easy to exploit - you just have to have a gifted tongue. That tongue belongs to reporter Alexandra Amberson (Tammy Lauren), who realizes that if your wish is specific enough, he has no choice but to grant it - a play on the old Monkey's Paw legend. So she simply wishes the crane operator was sober, undoing all the mayhem of the previous 90 minutes.