Deadly Friend
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| Deadly Friend | |
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 The movie poster for Deadly Friend. |
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| Directed by | Wes Craven |
| Produced by | Robert L. Crawford Patrick Kelley Robert M. Sherman |
| Written by | Diana Henstell Bruce Joel Rubin |
| Starring | Matthew Laborteaux Kristy Swanson |
| Music by | Charles Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Philip H. Lathop |
| Editing by | Michael Eliot |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | October 10, 1986 |
| Running time | 91 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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Deadly Friend is a 1986 sci-fi/horror movie. The film is based on the novel entitled Friend by Diana Henstell, who also is one of the writers of the film. Deadly Friend is directed by horror master Wes Craven.
[edit] Plot summary
Whiz kid Paul Conway and his mother, Jeannie, just moved into a new city and things are great. Paul is studying the brain at the local college and has a robot named BB, developed by him. Paul makes some new friends, Tom, and a girl named Samantha who lives next door to the Conways. They have a mean old lady, Elvira Parker, for a neighbor who isn't kind to strangers on her property. One night, Paul, Tom and Samantha open the lock on her gate and get in, BB gets shot by the old lady.
Samantha is a girl who has an abusive father, she is beaten on a lot by her father and one night, he causes her to be fatally wounded. The doctors tell Paul that she doen't have long to live. Paul gets Tom to work with him to help save Samantha. Paul puts the chip of BB's brain and surgically implants it into Samantha's brain. Samantha is activated by BB's remote control and is alive but later on she goes on a homicidal rampage. She kills people that have been mean. Because she has BB's memories, she is out of control. Can Paul save her in time before things get worse? Or will she die again?
Taglines: Some people are just better off dead.
If you're not afraid of the unknown...
There's no one alive who'll play with the girl next door.
Grab A Friend before someone in the audience grabs you!
Not all nightmares happen on Elm Street.
- Matthew Laborteaux ... Paul Conway
- Kristy Swanson ... Samantha
- Michael Sharrett ... Tom
- Anne Twomey ... Jeannie Conway
- Richard Marcus ... Harry
- Anne Ramsey ... Elvira Parker
- Lee Paul ... Sergeant Volchek
- Charles Fleischer ... BB (voice)
- Russ Marin ... Dr. Johanson
- Joel Hile ... Deputy
[edit] Differences between the book and movie
- In the book, the re-animated Samantha became more and more corpse-like as the story progressed.
- The book ends with Paul and Samantha falling off a bridge and drowning together; the film's ending, bafflingly, has Samantha turning into a robot.
