Monday, June 8, 2020

The Wraith (1986)

Rather odd 1980s car and rock nonsense. A gang of petrolheads led by Packard (Nick Casavettes) - truthfully other than Packard himself his gang is more a bunch of misfits - are terrorising the youth of an Arizona town. Then a mysterious stranger arrives, driving a hot black car and dressing like he escaped from a low-budget sci-fi terror. He takes the gang out one by one... usually in massive explosions which he somehow seems to return unscathed from.

There is another stranger in town too, Jake (Charlie Sheen). Packard's reluctant girl Keri (Sherilyn Fenn) is hot on Jake, much to Packard's disgust. But as his gang are wiped out one by one Packard has more on his mind... but is Jake the driver of the black car?

The film doesn't make much sense, plus the fact the mysterious killer car is indestructible takes a lot of the film's tension away. It is good mindless fun though, hot cars and girls with a mid-1980s rock soundtrack.