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The Music Box is the main antagonist of the 2017 supernatural horror film Wish Upon. It is a cursed Chinese music box that grants seven wishes to its owner at the cost of killing off those closest to the owner and later the owner themself once the seventh wish is made.

Biography[]

Origins[]

The box originates from ancient China, the object of value owned by the family of Lu Mei. In 1919, when China was infected by an outbreak of the bubonic plague, Mei was the only survivor in an experiment to quarantine the infected inside train cars with no food or water. For seven days and nights, Mei prayed at a temple.

On the seventh night, Mei was visited by a yokai that possessed the box and granted her wishes. The seven following days brought destruction upon her enemies, but at the cost of killing her most cherished loved ones, including her husband and infant son. Mei soon killed herself out of grief, while the music box lingered on for further generations to discover.

Wish Upon[]

In the present day, the box was found in a dumpster by Johnathon Shannon who gave it to his daughter Claire as an early birthday gift. One of the inscriptions Claire deciphers on the box is "Seven Wishes" and believes it to grant wishes. Indeed it does, but every time Claire makes a wish, one of her friends/family is killed. Whenever Claire makes a wish, some time passes before the music box opens on its own and plays ominous music, closing once death occurs as a symbolic way to imply stealing their soul.

As Claire keeps using wishes, she slowly loses her sanity and continues using the box despite knowing it is killing her loved ones, ignoring Ryan and Gina's warnings from the other ciphers on the music box warning that the after the seventh wish, the Yaoguai will claim the soul of the box’s owner.

Eventually, Claire breaks down from all of the unwanted attention she is receiving and loses her friends, with her current wishes undone when June steals the box. After reclaiming it by pushing June down the stairs, Claire wishes her mother to come back to life. She then rummages through her mother's paintings and finds one of the music box, concluding that it was what led to her committing suicide ten years ago.

Once her dad pays the price for her sixth wish, Claire uses the seventh and last wish to revert time back to when she first obtained the music box. She gives it to Ryan and orders him to bury it. As he walks away, Claire believes all is well before being struck and killed by Darcie's car, thus fulfilling the balance of reversing time by killing her and claiming her soul. The music box can be heard playing as a crowd gathers around Claire's lifeless body.

In the mid-credits scene, as Ryan prepares to bury the music box, he looks at it with presumed second thoughts, hence starting the death cycle all over again.

List of Wishes[]

Number Wish Outcome Victim
#1 For Darcie Chapman to rot. Darcie is sent to the hospital with necrotizing fasciitis. Max - Eaten by rats.
#2 For Paul Middlebrook to fall madly in love with Claire Shannon. Paul becomes obsessed with Claire, up to the point of stalking her. August Shannon - Drowned in a bathtub after smacking his head against the faucet.
#3 For Claire to obtain August's fortune. August's fortune is passed to Claire. Mrs. Deluca - Neck snapped after her hair is caught in a sink disposal.
#4 For Jonhathan Shannon (Claire's father) to stop being a dumpster diver. Johnathan becomes a musician. Gina Hsu - Impaled on the horn of a demon statue.
#5 For Claire's popularity to rise. Claire becomes the most popular student at school. Meredith McNeil - Falls to her death from an elevator malfunction.
#6 For Johanna Shannon (Claire's mother) to never have committed suicide. Johanna comes back to life. Johnathan Shannon - Decapitated by chainsaw.
#7 For everything to revert to the day Claire obtained the music box. Time resets back to the day Claire obtained the music box. Claire Shannon - Struct by Darcie's car.
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