Every day Gabby visits her mom who’s in a coma. She reads to her and tells her what is going on in her life. She’s a writer with a three book deal and her literary agent Zach wants her to write a sequel to her first book. He’d like a trilogy but Gabby is fighting it.
She’s written a new book, but Zach says it’s too depressing and won’t sell. Gabby doesn’t understand new authors have to build a following and one successful book doesn’t mean anyone will buy her second, especially when it’s a downer. Also you can’t always write what you want if you expect to make a living writing.
Gabby comes up with in a new proposal about an urban myth, but Zach doesn’t care. She wants to write about the djinn due to a story about some college kids who died after contacting it. Her research will be to do the ritual and see if the djinn shows up. No time is spent thinking about what will happen to her if it does.
She invites Zach and says if there is no djinn, she’ll do his trilogy. but if there is a djinn, she gets to do her urban legend book. When Zach arrives, Gabby’s friend asks how he can be a literary agent since he’s so muscular. Her friend isn’t very bright.
In order to call the djinn, Gabby must repeat a phrase. In a questionable editing choice, Gabby repeats this phrase twelve times in one minute. And yes I did go back and count because I couldn’t believe it just kept going. As if we are not already wishing the djinn would smite her, she then mouths the phrase for a second minute. It’s pointlessly long. There is no tension building or anything other than a sincere wish from the viewer that the djinn bite Gabby’s head off as quickly as possible.
When the djinn appears, Zach leaves because he thinks Gabby is pulling a trick so she can write about urban legends. The others are confused and Gabby is completely freaked out. Later that night the djinn start popping in to see people from the ritual to ask for their wish. Did Gabby explain she was researching this due to the other group dying after meeting the djinn? Because everyone starts making wishes, other than her boyfriend Landon who realizes this is a bad idea.
Oh and Gabby’s mom is out of her coma and absolutely fine. Landon is convinced Gabby used her wish because her mom has no atrophy. Gabby says how dare you. Of course we know this isn’t going to go well for anyone and their wishes will all go wrong.
My biggest question about this movie is why is a literary agent thinking of taking on actors?
Ridiculous dialogue
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| Gabby using her laptop on her comatose mothers bed |
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| Why is Todd’s self portrait historical? |
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| The closed caption on this scene made me laugh |
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