Wish Upon is a 2017 American supernatural horror film, directed by John R. Leonetti, written by Barbara Marshall, and starring Joey King, Ki Hong Lee, Sydney Park, Shannon Purser, Sherilyn Fenn, Elisabeth Rohm, and Ryan Phillippe.

Clare Shannon, a seventeen-year-old high school outcast, is haunted by the memory of her mother's suicide that she witnessed as a young child.

Clare makes a second wish that a popular boy named Paul would fall madly in love with her and he does (so much so he starts to stalk her).

Consequently, friendly neighbor Mrs. Deluca perishes as her hair gets caught in the kitchen waste disposal, breaking her neck.

Clare goes to school and asks Ryan to bury the box for her, kisses him, then walks into the street and is killed when she's accidentally hit by Darcie's car, the Yaoguai having claimed her soul and ending up just like her mom.

Director John R. Leonetti summarized Wish Upon as different from similar "The Monkey's Paw"-esque stories for the depth of the character Clare, particularly her tough childhood and the inability to stop using the music box even as she realizes what it really does.

[5] During filming, the scene of Jonathan in his car with a flat tire was pulled "right out of our ass" to serve as a diversion to Meredith's elevator death.

[6] In August 2016, Joey King was cast in the film's lead role,[8] and on November 9, 2016, Ki Hong Lee was announced to have also joined.

[10] Shot on an Arri Alexa at 3.4K resolution, Wish Upon was directed by Leonetti to look natural, departing from the stylized visual aesthetics of other horror films.

The website's consensus reads: "Wish Upon is neither scary nor original, but its fundamental flaws as a horror movie may make it destination viewing for after-midnight camp genre enthusiasts.

"[22] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 32 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

[23] Andrew Barker of Variety wrote, "By any normal standards, teen horror flick Wish Upon is a pretty bad movie.

"[24] The Observer's Simran Hans gave it 2/5 stars, writing, "Fashioning itself as a teen horror, Wish Upon is far too tame for most actual adolescents".

[25] Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph wrote, "Wish Upon tries to put a millennial spin on the premise, but fumbles everything it sets out to do so extravagantly, the film itself feels like the result of some kind of diabolical, chimpanzee-fingered pact."

"[27] Emily Yoshida of Vulture called the film "a deeply silly midsummer lark that makes up for the fact that it's about nothing by being incredibly entertaining.

"[28] The San Francisco Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub called it "a summer movie that delivers a lowest-common-denominator good time, and mostly succeeds", and gave it 2/4 stars.