History YMMV / TheWraith

* HilariousInHindsight: Stan Bush has a song in a movie about cars with special abilities. Now where have we [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie seen that before?]]

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
** Jake and Keri's scenes together whenever [[CrazyJealousGuy Packard isn't watching them.]] The most prominent being:
** Her offering him directions to Crawford Dam and even at one point willing to ride with him to show him the way.
** Offering to see him after her shift at Big Kay's where Billy Works.
** Him picking her up after said work and protecting her from Skank and Gutterboy's Cuda. Earning him a kiss from her.
** Their romantic moment in Willow River.
--> '''Keri:''' I like you.
--> [[spoiler: [[MoodWhiplash -Jake flashes back to the night of Jamie's murder.-]] ]]
--> '''Jake:''' I love you.
** [[spoiler: Jake revealing himself to not only being the Wraith, but the reincarnated Jamie Hankins and taking her out of Arizona.]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: You got Music/OzzyOsbourne, [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie Stan Bush]], Music/MotleyCrue and Music/BillyIdol among many 80s metal musicians in the soundtrack. And then there's the synth score by Michael Hoenig and J. Peter Robinson, performed entirely on a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synclavier New England Digital Synclavier]] synthesizer.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: It has a cult following in Japan, with the film being considered a solid American take on a {{toku}}satsu anti-hero story. The Wraith's design would go on to even be a partial inspiration for the character VRV Master in ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger''.

* CompleteMonster: [[{{Greed}} John Carrol]] is the son of a wealthy man [[InheritanceMurder trying to get his dad's inheritance]]. Taking advantage of Dad's fear of the dead rising to kill him, Joe pays off a magician to teach him how to puppeteer a corpse so he can {{gaslight|ing}} the man into signing everything to him. On the day of his plan, he [[HeKnowsTooMuch has the magician killed to cover up his method]], ordering two other people investigating the crime to be killed. He then carries out his plan, laughing when his father [[FrightDeathtrap dies of fright]].

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Has a cult following in Japan. With the film being considered a solid American take on a {{toku}}satsu anti-hero story. The Wraith's design would go on to even be a partial inspiration for the character VRV Master in ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger''.

* ShoutOut: Skank the extreme stoner's real name being Maurice may be a reference to The Music/SteveMillerBand's song "The Joker".

** Tim Freehan's "Where's The Fire?" is pretty awesome to the point where it serves as a musical bookend to the film.

** Tim Freehan's "Where's The Fire?" is pretty awesome to the point where it serves as a musical bookends.

** Tim Freehan's "Where's The Fire?" is pretty awesome to the point where it serves as a musical Bookends.