thesar-2 Great Sheen, this is heavy!Two-thirds through this movie, I got frustrated. "What the HELL is a 'Wraith?'" I asked myself and was about to stop this to Google it when one of the numerous movie expositions told me what it was. Oh, okay. Now, it all makes sense.It was to capitalize on Back to the Future's success a year earlier, Charlie Sheen's character from Ferris Bueller's Day Off from that year's summer and, well, 80s boobs'n'sci-fi. Well done.Actually, the only thing well-done was me hating this gang tremendously, some awesome racing POV's and making me regret living in Arizona. I guess I should be honored or flattered they targeted the Arizona desert towns/roads for this film's setting. Nope. The desert has always depressed me enormously and aside from the awesome racing segments, I was equally depressed seeing the backdrop of the dead desert behind the cars.I digress. Arizonian assholes obsess over the wrong cool cat and they mysteriously die one by one. Was it something they did in the past, and in the many unnecessary flashbacks, that causes their current predicament? The movie was totally 80s and very hard to watch for such incredibly goofy characters. I even got the impression they weren't acting. After all, the lead, Charlie Sheen, soon wouldn't be, either.***Final thoughts: You want a real Arizona horror? Or fun horror movie based in the 48th state? Send in the P's: Piranha 3D and Psycho. That's right: the "Remake" and the "Original," respectively. Those do AZ right.

videorama-759-859391 Back when Sheen was making a name for himself, this cute little action pic came out. The movie that rides on too little, is a simple revenge tale about a wraith (ghost) apparently a car that Sheen is driving that picks off our baddies, the first one being Ryan O Neal's son. It can vanish like that or suddenly appear, but it does exist. Thick haired, Nick Cassavetes, a very versatile actor, is just the guy you need to play the head baddie, Packard Walsh, and he does it well, while the one goofy looking guy, with the glasses, I'll never forget. Packard likes to race people for their cars, even if the drivers are disinclined. One driver had got fresh with his girl, so he killed him, in a quite nasty scene, hence the revenge, that follows in the mysterious form of Sheen. Hot property, Sherilyn Fenn, one of the film's attributes, especially in red bikini wear, catches the eye of Sheen, the new kind of dorky boy, in town. Worked it out yet, yeah, she's Cassavete's girl, so that really doesn't really sit well with him, so now I've guessed you'd made out the climax. Sorry. Even though there's not much that makes up the film, that watching these faded stars, early in the prime, is enough to carry it along, but that's all it is, an unimpressive yet well acted time passer. Cassavetes had also acted in a film earlier, where the black car was also the star.

SnoopyStyle Packard Walsh (Nick Cassavetes) and his gang terrorize an Arizona town and force drivers to drag race for their cars. Jake Kesey (Charlie Sheen) is new in town riding in on his bike. He catches the eye of Keri Johnson (Sherilyn Fenn) who is the possessive Packard's girlfriend. She used to be Jamie Hankins' girl before he was killed by Packard. Jake befriends Jamie's brother Billy (Matthew Barry). He slowly takes out Packard's gang as The gun-toting Wraith driving his ghost car. His car is reborn every time it is destroyed. Sheriff Loomis (Randy Quaid) helplessly investigates.With the roller skating burger joint waitresses and the old fashion gang drag races, this has a cheesy derivative 50s feel. It's kind of fun but kind of bad. Charlie Sheen is doing a likable bad boy hero. Sherilyn Fenn looks hot in her bikini. Nick Cassavetes is a forgettable brute. Clint Howard is memorable as the bespectacled gearhead Rughead. This is a cheesy cult movie but limited other than the cool idea.

tomgillespie2002 So we find ourselves again in the heady, glossy '80's. A film that would delight any 10 year old; special, fast, shiny cars in high-speed races on Arizona desert roads. What more could a boy ask for? Well, in the case of The Wraith, we also have a supernatural avenging spirit.A gang of leather-clad "punks" lead by mullet-wearing Parkard (Nick Cassavettes), 'bothers' teenage drivers, and forces them to race for the possession of their cars. And they don't play fair. Packard is obsessed with Keri (Sherilyn Fenn), and believes that she belongs to him. We are offered glimpses of backstory in an incident where she was caught with Jamie Hankins, and the gang murder him. At the same time that Jake (Charlie Sheen) arrives in town, a visible apparition of possible alien origin arrives in a futuristic-looking sports car: A wraith with the intent of avenging his death (yes, he is the spirit of Jamie; revenge is his motivation). What proceeds is a series of repetitive kills, as the wraith races with the gang and blows their car (but not their bodies) to smithereens. In a different decade, this post-Knight Rider-like ghost-revenge flick, could have been less, well, 1980's. it focuses more on the fast-car elements, and less on the spiritual nature of post-death revenge. It's not a bad film, just very predictable and as I previously mentioned repetitive. There are hammy turns by Randy Quaid (Sheriff Loomis), and Eraserhead- haired geek, Rughead, by nerd regular Clint Howard. This adds nothing to the film, except for decade-cliché. The film bizarrely had a poster that was directly descended from the Back to the Future (1985) promotions (i.e. a figure exiting a vehicle with bright-white light emitting from the drivers door). The wraith itself is clearly lifted from the Japanese Manga character introduced in 1985, The Bio Booster Guyver (which was also turned into a Hollywood film in 1991). The costume almost identical.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com