Fridge / The Wraith

• A man who's murdered horribly and comes back from the dead to pay vengeance upon his killers. You sure this isn't The Crow or High Plains Drifter?
  • The writer/director of the film has stated that High Plains Drifter was one of the films that ideas were borrowed from, and has acknowledged that The Crow borrowed ideas from The Wraith, him being amused at the lineage of ideas being use.
• Why is Jake not afraid to leave Billy the Turbo Interceptor? Because all of his challenges to the Packard Walsh gang either started at Big Kay's Burgers, while Billy was working the grill, or took place elsewhere while Billy was working and in all cases has at least a dozen witnesses to prove it. There's no way Billy could be accused of the murders, even if it becomes public that they were responsible for the murder of Billy's brother.
• Why does Billy realize, against all logic, that Jake is also Jamie, with only a small clue ^note  Billy addresses him as 'bro', and Jake says 'You said it, Billy'? Because the first time he saw Jake, he also saw the scars on his back and neck. While most people wouldn't know what kind of injuries Jamie suffered before his death, it's perfectly plausible that the wounds might have been evident on Jake's corpse in the autopsy, and as Jamie's brother Billy could know about it.
• The corpses of the Wraith’s victims are found to have the eyes missing. Eyes are said to be the windows to the soul, so it’s a likely sign the Wraith is claiming their souls as part of his vengeance.