The Wraith (1986) Poster

(1986)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A man and a woman are in a bed kissing; the woman's naked breasts are fully visible.
  • A man and a woman are bathing in a river and they start to kiss and caress each other, and one of the woman's breasts is briefly visible.
  • A couple are briefly seen having sex in a flashback, and the woman's breasts are briefly visible.

Violence & Gore

  • A car falls over a cliff of a mountain, and is seen crashing and exploding.
  • A young man holds a flip knife by the blade, and cuts himself by gripping onto it. Blood is seen dripping out of his hand, and tries to make his girlfriend taste it.
  • A couple gets surrounded by a gang. The girl gets grabbed by a gang, but doesn't get assaulted.
  • A black figure shoots everything in a garage with a shotgun.
  • Car explosions occur.
  • During a chase sequence where a gang chases a boy and a girl on a motorbike, one of them accidentally shoots one of the wheels of their car and they crash.
  • The violence is overall moderate.
  • A car drives into a garage and the whole garage explodes into pieces and endless fire and smoke.
  • A boy slaps his ex-girlfriend.
  • A few flashbacks to a couple having sex being interrupted by a group of thugs; the man is slashed and stabbed several times in the back and killed, then his body is dumped in a trunk of a car and pushed off a cliff. Some blood is seen.
  • A few violent car crashes, including two which fall off a cliff and explode, another rolls several times, and another violently explodes, and one car crashes into a chop shop which also violently explodes.
  • A man punches another on his face a few times and then kicks him when he's on the ground, and he bleeds from the mouth.

Profanity

  • "Shit" and "bitch" are used fairly menu times, and the slur "faggot" is uttered at least twice, among other profanities.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Cigarette smoking throughout the movie, and one character likes to get high on automotive fluids (brake fluid, WD40, etc.)

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Scenes of corpses with their eyeballs missing can be intense.
  • Some scenes show a young man getting tortured. It is all seen with red lighting making it more intense and shocking.
  • A black car is seen driving around many times throughout the film. It also shows a figure in black.
  • A mysterious black figure comes in a garage and shoots everything with a shotgun.
  • Packard is very abusive to everyone including his girlfriend Keri.
  • The car is seen to disappear with white mist showing off as the police witness it.
  • A boy and a girl in a motorbike get chased by a car gang.
  • A gang talk aggressively and have rebellious presence to them. They are threatening, and very menacing.
  • The last 20 minutes is non-stop intense with car chasing and crashing.
  • Most of the auto chases/crashes may be very intense.
  • Some of the night scenes make the Wraith look a little frightening since he's supposed to be a ghost of some kind

Spoilers

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • During the ending of the film, Jake gives the Turbo Interceptor to Billy before driving off on his motorbike. Soon after, Billy realises that Jake was his dead brother Jamie and that he'll probably never see him again and starts crying for him to come back. This scene is incredibly sad.

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