The Wraith (1986)

Leighton: ** Sabine: ***
NetFlix Rental

Sabine felt I had been monopolizing the NetFlix rentals, so she gave me a list of some 80s movies that she has fond memories of. Of the five or six on the list only this one is available on DVD. Charlie Sheen, back when he actually was pretty good looking (as opposed to the "rode hard and put away wet" look he has on Two and a Half Men), is back from the grave with a mystical car avenging his death against the gang of crazy car racers/thieves who killed him. Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks) is the girl the gang leader obsesses over (and killed Charlie Sheen over). Randy Quaid (Independence Day, Vacation) is the local sherrif. You probably won't have heard of anybody else in the movie. It's sort of like The Crow without the goth atmosphere or rock/industrial soundtrack or a crow. And with lots of road racing and a bad 80s soundtrack. Sabine liked it more than me since she had seen it before and remembered liking it before. I didn't think it was horrible. Heck, it had Clint Howard looking kind of like a lovechild of Egon from Ghostbusters and Eraserhead. How can you not like that?

(Fun Trivia: Both The Wraith and The Crow have crazy homicidal gang member characters named Skank. Coincidence or homage? You decide.)