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  Review by Patrick Pryor ★★★★

  + Cartoon dad punk named Skank who rocks out to Billy Idol.

  + Burger flipping and roller skating montage set to "Addicted to Love."

  + Charlie Sheen as a creepy coke addled mannequin bad boy who wears a denim vest with no shirt while riding his hog.

  + Clint Howard GOING FOR IT as a bouffant haired nerd who referees drag races.

  + A creepy hot springs love making scene where the camera captures Charlie sheen moaning in a fit of pleasure with Sherilyn Fenn as "Hold on Blue Eyes" blares.

  Come to think of it, the entire soundtrack is an over the top, butt rock jammer that feels totally incongruous with the ghost story revenge tale unfolding onscreen. Fast and fierce and outta control and filled with mush mouthed alien dialogue about jumping up goober's asses and sunning on rocks. WHERE HAS THIS MOVIE BEEN ALL MY LIFE?

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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★ 2

  I have the feeling that Charlie Sheen would fuck my girlfriend regardless if I’m dead or alive.

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  Review by VIVE_le_FILTH ★★★½ 10

  "You're nothing but Road Pirates!"

  Packard Walsh and his gang of road pirates rule the highway and you know Packard's one badass mutherfucker when Charlie Sheen is the good guy, but Charlie is outer of this world and not because of the drugs (this time!) but because Charlie's character is The Wraith back from the dead to get vengeance on Packard for his untimely death and stealing the love of his life, 80's Sherilyn Fenn (nice!)

  
  "You don't want to see what I've just seen - asswipe!"

  The 80's Fast and the Furious or maybe more like Roadhouse on wheels but with way more switchblades and dead bodies or maybe neither? Just can't decide but the one thing I do…

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  Review by c h r i s ★★★★ 4

  A Callisto fav. 

  illegal street car racing, a sun-kissed Sherilyn Fenn, bad motorcycles boys; be still my beating heart. teenage toxic love and possession gone wrong when new boy sets eyes on the leader of a town motorcycle gangs love interest, when her boyfriend is ruthlessly killed out of jealousy and rage, an alien-like baddie with an all leather bodysuit and killing machine of a car-The Wraith-sets out for sweet sweet sweet revenge on the cold-blooded gang, one by one. 
  ITS. SO. FUCKING. COOL.
  The soundtrack never stops putting up hits. Clint Howard’s Eraserhead hair never moves. if you can ignore the clusterfuck of a cheesy mess this sci-fi racing movie is you’ll have a ton of fun with the explosive car chases and just looking at Sherilyn.

  easily one of the coolest 80s movies I’ve seen in awhile and Nick Cassavetes is so tall.

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★ 10

  A film with many oddities, but the one that stuck with me was Nick's unnaturally youthful and heartthrob look; I certainly wasn't expecting Young Cassavettes to play the leading man in a film of this genre. Plus it was also weird to see Sheen in this kind of movie, and Ozzy Osbourne did an original song for this. Wild!

  I wouldn't call this picture "excellent," but it is certainly intriguing. Although not thrilling, the racing sequences are enjoyable. The eccentric cast of individuals can be anywhere from mildly entertaining to completely cringeworthy. The acting isn't great, but Nick Sheen, Fenn, and Randy Quaid, especially the former, steal the show. In spite of the fact that the movie's special effects haven't…

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  Review by JosephK ★★★★

  A wraith, man. A ghost! A evil spirit and it ain't cool

  Solid 80s sci-fi trash. Car chases, Charlie Sheen, people calling cars tits and a great soundtrack. How could you not enjoy it

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  Review by pd187 ★★★★ 1

  i still have no idea what the wraith is... 4 stars

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  Review by starkwedder ★★★★★ 6

  Is this a movie or some kind of music festival 🎎😄? Because there are so many songs in this movie. 😍❤️.

  A December to remember 🎄 🎄

  Well, I'm telling you what I'm going to do now: I'm going to open my Spotify and hear this movie's soundtrack. 😎 Damn, what a cool soundtrack that movie has! They put Ozzy Osbourne's secret loser too. This movie is purely a vibe, man.

  Great movie! This movie has that 80s party vibe 🥳. There's a scene in this movie where Jake Casey (Charlie Steen) screws up Patrick Walsh (Nick Cassavetes) and rides his car to the sky 😄. That scene is completely insane, man.

  Overall, it's a pretty fun goofiness movie. 😍👌

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  Review by Dan Abel ★★★

  "Roadblocks won't stop something that can't be stopped."

  Packard, AKA Pack, is the leader of a gang of car racing thugs that terrorizes a small desert town in Arizona. Their M.O. is to force people into drag races with their car on their line to chop them up for profit. After pack kills a man for sleeping with his girlfriend, a mysterious being appears in an indestructible custom car. A being that flips the script on the gang, taking them down one by one. A being known as The Wraith.

  Today was the final game of the NFL regular season and my Buffalo Bills beat the New England Patriots. I just got home from the bar so I wanted to…

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  Review by BeardofTsu ★★★★

  Roadblocks won't stop somethin' that can't be stopped.

  
  From the twisted mind that bought you Hamburger: The Motion Picture comes THE WRAITH! What the even fuck is this? I have no fuckin' idea! What is THE WRAITH? WHO IS THE WRAITH? All good questions that I would like to say are answered by the end of the film but I'd be lying. Street scum, hot babes on skates, street racing, Clint Howard with big hair and with a soundtrack that SLAPS hard! Whatever this thing is it just oozes with awesome coolness, it would be worth dying if my spirit somehow transferred into the body of Charlie Sheen and I got to drive that cool car! Wouldn't even mind him…

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  Review by Bob McCully ★★★½ 12

  Holy Hell, This is the most 80's movie to ever 80's!
  Bangs so hard it'll leave tire marks on your face!

  Yet another yarn pulled from the "What Even IS This Movie?" universe as there's a clear bad guy/good guy dichotomy and the Head Honcho Bad Guy "Packard" has one clear objective: Keri Johnson.
  She is his babe and no one can even look at her!
  Which is hard not to do because it's Sherilyn Fenn and she looks like she was out in the sun a little too long, like a wee bit sun-kissed, so Packard, GET REAL BUDDY!
  Fortunately in rolls a mysterious hot Black Turbo to save the day, a killer car that's ready to take on…

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  Review by belial_carboni ★★★★ 2

  The Wraith is high octane 80s fun in the sun that will make you run jump and dance with joy. Cheesy futuristic FX, blazing metal tunes, teenage antics, Clint Howard and endless car chases and explosions. You better buckle up because your brain will be travelling 200 miles per hour through entertainment land population you!

  80s motorcycle helmet wearing villian/heroes are my favourite and the Wraith rocks this look like no other. Mysterious, campy and electrifying the Wraith electrocuted my heart. Kinda wish it was Kevin Bacon under that helmet instead but whatcha gonna do right? At least sheen wasn't "winning" back then. That shit was embarrassing. Bacon is always winning but he doesn't brag about it know what I mean?