FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

John Doe I remember seeing this on what I think was the Sci-Fi channel a number of years ago. And I couldn't remember the name of the film for the life of me. It wasn't until a number of years later that i did find the film on a site (and this was without the help of IMDb!) Also I was going to get it online but it was too expensive, however when I was looking through DVDs at a pawn store i was desperately looking for this film and i look up and what was staring back at me in the front row? Yup this movie! :D I bought it immediately. Anyway onto the actual film lol...Deadly Friend is originally based on a 1985 novel written by Diana Henstell and was turned in a feature film directed by Wes Craven. It tells the story of a teen boy named Paul who has a friend named BB (he is a yellow robot who talks (sorta). He meets his next door neighbor Samantha who he has a crush on. When Samantha falls down the stairs from her drunk father and dies, Paul decides to put BB's microchip into her brain. Samantha is back alive again but is she still the same? If you like Horror and Science Fiction with interesting story lines, you will like this, and it has one of the most bloodiest deaths with a basketball. lol I give Deadly Friend a 7/10.

gavin6942 Paul is a new kid in town with a robot named "BB". He befriends Samantha (Kristy Swanson) and the three of them have a lot of good times together. That is, until Samantha's abusive father throws her down some stairs and kills her.Whether you like this movie or not really comes down to how seriously you take it. Kristy Swanson walking and swinging her arms like a robot? Pretty silly. The acting is rather spotty at times. Some of the science and plot do not really add up. Calling this a "B" movie might be giving it too much credit.There is a lot of dispute about what aspects were Craven, what came from the studio and what was from different producers. Craven did not want the movie to be as dark or gory as it became. Respectfully, I would have to disagree with Craven on that. The gore effects (especially the burned father) look incredible, and by far the highlight of the film is the death of the neighbor woman (death by basketball!).This is a fun picture that seems to have been largely forgotten. Of course it is does not reach the status of "Last House", "Nightmare" or "Scream", but there is a lot to like about this one.

Dave from Ottawa This is another horror thriller that simply isn't. Thrilling that is, nor horrific for that matter. A teenage Baron Frankenstein wannabee uses dubious and unconvincing science fiction robotics to resurrect his galpal- next-door but she goes out of control. Wow, an ill-conceived machine runs amok. What a novel idea! Yawn. Well-crafted suspense or a strong moody atmosphere would at least have made this film watchable, but alas Wes craven is no Alfred Hitchcock. There is very little here to like. The performances are stiff, the drama forced, the story predictable and the inevitable violent rampage is dull and non-compelling. There isn't even the dark, moody world of a proper horror movie. Everything in the movie is too bright, shiny and suburban, which could perhaps create an ironic context but it doesn't even manage that much. This is paint-by-numbers movie-making of the worst sort.Avoid. The average episode of Buffy is much more worthy of any viewer's time.

Scarecrow-88 It sure has been a while since I last watched Wes Craven's "Deadly Friend", but I had forgotten just how much fun it was. The plot is so absurd and has murder sequences so surreal, I was completely won over. A bright teenager who can create artificially intelligent robots and understands complex matters concerning the human brain, responds to a crisis rather extraordinarily..his girlfriend is killed by her lousy, cruel, drunk of a father(..he knocks her down the stairs causing a head trauma/cerebral hemorrhage)and the kid, Paul(Matthew Laborteaux)resurrects the girl, Samantha(Kristy Swanson)by implanting his robot's computer chip intelligence in her brain! This Frankensteinian maneuver unleashes a cavalcade of problems he attempts to juggle with little success. First, Paul's friend, newspaper boy Tom(Michael Sharrett), who helped him kidnap Sam's body from the hospital, is having a hard time accepting what they had done. Second, the computer chip that Paul inserted in Sam's brain, is controlling her..this is a major setback because robot BB was starting to evolve into an entity which made it's own decisions without his master's approval, and it seems Sam is following orders directed by BB. Third, certain targets are being systematically murdered such as a paranoid neighbor who doesn't like people, Elvira Parker(Anne Ramsey; Throw Mama from the Train/The Goonies), always pointing her double-barrel shotgun at folks, who was responsible for destroying BB and Harry Pringle(Richard Marcus), the louse who sent his daughter crashing down the stairs to her demise. Fourth, Paul is having a difficult time keeping Sam stashed away, and getting her to follow instructions is not an easy task. With Tom about to crack, his mom(Anne Tworney) always close to discovering Sam, and a body count, Paul's life spirals out of control and it will only be a matter of time before the secret's out.I like how Craven creates what looks like a television movie, only for the outbursts of violence to shock the viewer into silence such as the celebrated head explosion gag by the use of a basketball(..this is followed by a body hopping about without the head as blood squirts out)..how Samantha is all of a sudden equipped with superhuman strength, allowed to lift a grown man in the air after snapping his wrist back, crushing his throat while having him extended high off the ground. Or, when Samantha lifts a biker bully, picking on Paul, over her head, hurling him into a cop car's windshield. Craven includes an amusing nightmare sequence many might consider a homage to "A Nightmare on Elm Street" where Paul finds someone slithering underneath his bed sheets, only to find the charred visage of a victim whose head had been eviscerated in an incinerator. We also spend time with Paul's cute robot before it's blown to smithereens by mean old hag Elvira, and it's established here that it's got some malevolence in it's evolving programming(..right at the start, BB nearly chokes the life out of a thief planning to lift money from Paul's mother's purse), how it could cause harm if needed. The plot itself is laughable, no doubt, and it's hard not to giggle at the ending where Paul hasn't learned his lesson, reaping unpleasantly for his interference in the process of life and death, having created a monster he will not be able to contain.