After nice-boy Jamie is murdered by road racing, teen, thugs, a mysterious teen (Charlie Sheen) appears in town, as well as a rubber-suited figure in a super car that can’t be destroyed. As the new teen strikes up a relationship with Keri (Sherilyn Fenn), the super car has fatal road races with the murderers until only their leader (Nick Cassavetes) is left.
Quick Review: A combo of High Plains Drifter and The Crow, The Wraith is either a ghost story or an alien resurrection story. If it’s a ghost story, ghosts are a lot more interested in rubber space suits than moaning and chains. But they do still like mindless revenge, and it doesn’t get more mindless than this. Why do the thugs keep racing the super car? Everyone who does dies. Doesn’t that mean you probably shouldn’t? And why does the super car race at all when it just kills the murderers by ramming them? Why doesn’t it pop into town and run down all the bad guys on the first night? For that matter, why do none of the teens have parents? Why are the police absolutely useless against a few moronic teens? Why does Charlie Sheen wear tons of makeup? And why did they cast Nick Cassavetes as a teen when he appears ten to fifteen years too old? The car races are poorly done, the music is ’80s tunes that couldn’t get radio play, the dialog is over-the-top serious, and the drama is unintentionally funny. There are a few brief topless scenes if that’s enough to excite you (if so, I can suggest a hundred better films with more).