Is The Wraith actually good?

The Wraith sits in the 42.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 42.7% of them.

How does The Wraith compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Wraith lands in the 40.5% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is The Wraith's score based on?

125 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Wraith's score.

1986

global pct

42.7

Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s

The Wraith

Name: The Wraith
Genre: Action, Horror, Romance
Released: 1986

Scored from 125 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

42.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

40.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

32.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

125 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A mysterious stranger arrives in a small Arizona town on a futuristic black sports car, challenging a violent gang of road pirates led by Packard Walsh to a series of high-stakes street races. As the gang members die one by one in the aftermath of each race, the local sheriff investigates while a young woman tied to the gang's dark past is drawn to the newcomer.

Released in 1986, The Wraith is an action, horror and romance film.

125 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 126 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.