Mike Marvin

A marauding gang of car-racing delinquents terrorize the residents of a small town, until a mysterious, otherworldly stranger arrives to challenge the ruthless roadsters.

Harkin (Patrick Houser) picks up a hitchhiker (Tracy N. Smith) heading to a Lake Tahoe ski resort. Once there, Harkin joins up with a party-loving group of skiers led by Dan (David Naughton), a New Yorker. When the mix of young men and women are not shaking down into couples, attention focuses on the competition with the world ski champ Rudi Garmischt (John Patrick Reger) -- eventually leading to a spectacular sequence of skiing artistry down the snowy slopes, a tour-de-force that rivals scenes from the Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me.

It's all about skin and skiing. Our hero is pure as the driven snow and the best freestyle skier around -- a shoo-in to be the first American to win the world-freestyle title in several years. But he has some stiff competition from a nasty Austrian.

Jake is killed by neighbourhood thugs, and returns as a mystical figure (The Wraith) to gain revenge.