Boy, when you stop and think about it, the 1980's were chock full of movie robots. I mean you had Short Circuit, Batteries Not Included, Chopping Mall, Terminator, Robocop, I mean the list just goes on and on. Anyway, the robot trend in the 80's apparently got so big that horror movie juggernaut Wes Craven decided he needed to cash in on the craze and make himself a robot movie.
This brings us to Deadly Friend, Wes Craven's horror movie featuring a robot. More specifically it feature's a robot's brain fused with the brain of a dead girl. This of course leads to her having a split personality, superhuman strength, and various other robot powers. She of course uses these powers to brutally murder people with basketballs and furnaces.
Essentially the plot follows a young robotics/human anatomy genius who has built his own robot and then later uses the remains of said robot to revive his dead friend. The friend then rampages and is eventually killed. The movie just gets more and more absurd as it goes, but why shouldn't it? It's an 80's horror movie.
Plot's not important here, what is important is the amazing deal the actress who played Sam(the revived robot girl) got out of this movie. I don't know what she was paid, but for most of the movie she has virtually no speaking part, walks around like a zombie doing the Vulcan salute, wears raccoon makeup, and kills people.
I guess what got me is that Paul, our protagonist, kidnapped Sam's body from the hospital, then performed an illegal and immoral surgery on her which turned her into a murderous monster, he then hid her from the police even after he knew she had committed murder. My point here is this: at the end of the film, Paul is not in jail, and we're supposed to just accept this.
Deadly Friend gets 4 out of 5 basketballs, probably for having a kick-ass ending.
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