Deadly Friend (1986)

Purely Joyful Movie!

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Teenage boy, just relocated to a new town with his single mom to attend the university on scholarship, immediately attracts attention: he's a science genius who has built his own robot, a combination best friend/bodyguard named BB. But there's trouble in the neighborhood: the old lady across the street wields a shotgun, while the scary man next door abuses his daughter. Perplexing thriller from director Wes Craven begins promisingly--sort of like a '70s Disney movie with an attitude--but the tone of the picture starts to falter right about the time the beaten girl has a nightmare in which she stabs her father and his blood squirts her in the face. The second-half of the movie--which, fatally, does not include BB--follows in this schlocky vein (apparently dictated by the studio after the original cut was met with negative test screenings). Genre buffs might enjoy the descent into murder and mayhem and reanimation (it is a horror movie, after all), but the film's early strengths are eventually lost. Talented screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin, adapting Diana Henstell's novel "Friend", must have been heartsick to see this project get away from both himself and Craven. The solid cast gives it a noble try but can't salvage the wreckage. *1/2 from ****

I've been wanting to see this movie for the longest time now but I've only been able to see it just recently.After all this time I must say I'm disappointed.Deadly Friend started off good but after robot BB was destroyed the movie went downhill.Robot BB was like a version of Johnny 5 that started Short Circuit-ing (Ha Ha Ha, I made myself laugh) I was really hoping BB was going to be rebuilt but..... Nope.After Robot BB's brain was implanted in Samantha, I was interested in seeing where this was going but I started losing interest as well.It just was NOT the same anymore.The Elvira kill scene has to be 1 of the worst kill scenes I've ever seen.It was definitely different but stupid & the final end scene has to be 1 of the worst endings I've ever seen.If Deadly Friend was remade then I hope it's Wes Craven directing again & this time, I hope he'll be able to direct it exactly the way he wants

The everyday story of one boy and his robot moving to a new house and making new friends and enemies.But seeing as this is Wes Craven, something sinister is bound to happen. with a basket ball!It's an odd choice of movie for Craven, seeing that he had just made one of the most iconic horror movies of all time two years earlier, but there is still a lot of fun to be had.I had no idea what the main plot device was, I just knew it was a Craven film I had never heard of, so I thought the first act was about a killer robot, and that 'BB' would become more sinister as the film progressed.Then Kristy Swanson, gets thrown down the stairs, and then we are back in full Craven mode, with a little eighties cheese thrown in.The performances are okay, Paul spends the film looking sweaty, Swanson is good, but the Darryl Hannah eye make up thing doesn't look like your decaying. And for some reason, Paul's friend just keeps fainting.The basketball scene is truly amazing, and depending on how you are feeling, you will either laugh or just groan.It's a very hard to find movie, but if you do find it, and love all things eighties, this will suit you.And it's a guarantee this will never be remade..

beautiful film. As to the usual one, the usual negative comments which talk about a classical film some years 80 which everyone does not like it to the nostalgic ones are met.Sure Heros that this film had to have a judgment in this site. In fact reviewers' good part has put a high vote to the previous episodes. Because this contrast? I know the reason. Since assumptive reviewers' good part favorably sees the past and as the past is "better" than the present they have given several credit to the preceding episodes being still the last episode more explosive and spectacular. At this point should reject also the old episodes but there are here two weights and two measure.In fact also cinema masterpieces have been criticized and denigrated. Good part some reviewers of this site belong to the very bad reviewers. Better think separately with its head. I was sure that the god fun old episode did not like it. Who has to be withdrawn is not george lucas but the last reviewer SAMPAT GO AWAY. Cary Guffey