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Bookmark this pageThe Wraith (1986)
Director: Mike Marvin
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Gang of comic-strip killer car-thieves is led by lip-curling psycho Packard (Cassavetes). New kid in town Sheen is sometimes himself, sometimes a leathered-up RoboDredd available for chicken run assignments in his blacked-out turbo roadster. Sherilyn Fenn is Packard's girl 'or nobody's', but was previously the squeeze of a Packard victim and is starting to come on strong to Sheen, apparently or spasmodically the deceased boyfriend reincarnated. The town (comprising one house, a burger joint and no citizen who isn't a teenager or a cop) is overseen by Sheriff Randy Quaid, who displays all the reverence the script deserves. Best joke is having one of the thugs know a word like 'wraith'.Author: DO
Cast & crew
Director: Mike Marvin
Producer: John Kemeny
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn, Randy Quaid, Griffin O'Neal, Matthew Barry full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 92 mins
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