I absolutely LOVED The Wraith growing up. Seeing that shit on the local channel's Saturday Night Movie Premier....that custom Chrysler car....young ass Charlie Sheen was Mr Steal Your Girl.....the racing scenes and hardcore death scenes?....
man then later seeing it uncut on cable...
"Wait, there were titties in this movie?" Haha
This last scene is absolutely terrible acting wise....but damn I love it, "Jake,....Jake,.......Jamie!" Haha
A bit of trivia
Charlie Sheen took this gig during a brief window before Platoon....some stories say he was only on set a day others just a few days, which is why there was "Jamie" at the beginning and all the "Wraiths" are stunt doubles.....the whole thing was shot in like 26 days.
The Wraith (1986)
According to Charlie Sheen when he appeared on Jay Leno's Garage - "I shot this in a pit stop on the way to the Philippines to film 'Platoon,'" Sheen said of "The Wraith." "Oliver Stone went and saw it in the movie theater and called me so angrily afterwards," Sheen recalls, as Stone was genuinely worried that "Wraith" was going to soil peoples' opinions of "Platoon."
The Wraith (1986) - According to Charlie Sheen when he appeared on Jay Leno's Garage - "I shot this in a pit stop on the way to the Philippines to film Platoon (1986), Sheen said of The Wraith. "Oliver Stone went and saw it in the movie theater and called me so angrily afterwards," Sheen...
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Oh that car was a concept version of a real race car....cost $1.3 milly had some super expensive body/paint job and an experimental 4 cylinder engine that got up to 190 mph
Did I mention I LOVED this movie?!