Deadly Friend

A single mother named Jeannie Conway (Anne Twomey) and her 15 year old son Paul (Matthew Laborteaux) moves into a house with their yellow security robot named BB and are new to the town.
Paul suddenly befriends with a resident there by the name of Tom Toomey (Matthew Sharrett) as he shows Paul around the neighborhood but they run into a nasty old lady with a shotgun named Elvira Parker (Anne Ramsey) who doesn't like people walking on her property.

Paul befriends a neighbor by the name of Samantha Pringle (Kristy Swanson) as he and his mother discovers that her father named Harry (Richard Marcus) beats her and molests her yet doesn't take legal action as he is the only family member she has.

Well one day they decide to do a Halloween prank on mean old Elvira by ringing her doorbell. However BB seems to go out of control and approaches Elvira then is shot and destroyed but at least Paul still has Samantha to keep him company.

However, after a Thanksgiving dinner at the Toomey house, Harry beats Samantha for coming in late that she falls and hits her head leaving her in a coma and was rushed to a hopital then put on life support in the local hospital, but after a certain amount of time, they pulled the plug on her and she was dead.

Paul and Tom disguises themselves as hospital workers and takes Samantha's body over to Paul's local University so he can use BB's robot microchips in Sam's brain to resurrect her.
However, Paul realises like before BB was destroyed that he couldnt control him that Sam too is out of control as she becomes part of BB's mind and kills the people that caused harm to her but Paul tries and tries to have her under control and nothing seems to work.

The film looks brilliantly done for the first half of it as it's a teenage boy with his love for his new loving protective robot as you don't want anything to go wrong
Well the story is quite disturbing anbd sometimes hard to watch with the robot being destroyed and the abusive father too which was strongly done for an 80's horror flick but there's a nice twist that there's revenge involved for both of these matters.
However, the story starts to weaken and nothing much comes out of it afterwards with the half human half robot running away from the police in the streets.
Yet it was very Frankenstein like with what was all going on.

The acting is quite good for it's time and still stands out well. Lead actor Matthew Laborteaux is very adventurous as the kid that has his robot and uses them to resurrect his friend. He shows alot of dynamic action to his part and brings on tons of energy to it.
Kristy Swanson does well too as someone trying to be brave about being abused and molested by her father and really knew how to portray a robot well too being menacing and evil.
Anne Twomey is believeable as a single and supporting mother with good morals to her part bringing it all together for her role.
Anne Ramsey has a good supporting role in the film as a nasty old lady in which she usually played in films as you'd want to stay away from her.
Richard Marcus had a still and intimidating attitude as an abusive father which came across not too badly.

There's brain surgery being shown a couple times.
Mean old Elvira Parker's head explodes after a basketball is shot in her face.

Wes Craven does deliver alot of intense and disturbing stuff with this film as well as adding the odd Elm Street types of nightmares too.
He shows a nice beginning involving bit part actor as a thief trying to break into a car and a robot hand grabs his neck.
There's a nice scene with Matthew Labourteaux socialising with his robot as well as a good shot on Michael Sharrett riding by on his bike and wiping out. Then there's a great dialogue between him and Labourteaux talking about the robot.
Labourteux also showed nice chemistry dialogue between Kristy Swanson when they first meet.
There's a great moment with the three of them playing basketball and the robot looked funny trying to play too and throwing the ball high in the air as the camera shots looked good on it flying high in the air and then landing at a neighbors house.
We have a nightmare sequence with a good shot on Swanson sleeping in bed and then a creepy shot on supporting actor Richard Marcus looking over her about to molest her and she does well by reacting scared.
She looked good stabbing him with a broken flower glass vase and he cackles evilly and showing insane expressions.
We have a good shot on all three actors Laborteaux, Swanson and Sharrett creeping up at the mean old ladys house at night.
There's a good shot on the robot opening the combination lock to a gate and then Swanson slowly walking up to the house and really tripped out big time after ringing the doorbell and the alarms go off.
An excellent shot on the robot approaching the house towards supporting actress Anne Ramsey as she really knew how to be wicked by firing her shotgun and it looks disturbing that she destroys an innocent looking robot. A nice shot on Labourteux crying and acting devastated when this happens.
There's a good setting with Anne Twomey, Laborteaux and Swanson saying grace at a Thanksgiving dinner.
We have a good and chilling moment when Swanson enters her house looking around for her father and silently trying to not let him see her wherever he is which gives you the chills with good shots wherever she goes in the house and suddenly it looked good and suspenseful when Marcus grabs her and hits her which looked brutal and a good slow motion shooting on her falling down the stairs and bumping her head against a wall.
Laborteaux does well with his intensity trying to talk to Sharrett by going to the hospital with him.
Laborteaux is great when he loses it after that he finds out that it's too late to rescue his friend by having the plug pulled on her.
Laboreaux is wonderful when he looks surprised to see that Swanson his breathing after ressurrecting her and she does well by acting like a robot.
There's a nice shot on Marcus standing on top of the stairs leading to the basement where a fire is happening as well as good close up shots on his face wondering what the hell is going on.
There is a good shot on Swanson coming up from behind Marcus after he falls from the stairs with cold expressionless looks and her arms charging towards him and he reacts well at being frightened.
There's also a nice shot on Ramsey opening her curtains looking out and then a good shot on Swanson doing the same thing staring at her and Ramsey really showed a nice shocked and frightened expressions on her face.
We have a good moment on Ramsey looking around and a nice slow motion of a basketball bouncing her way.
Laborteaux is good trying to talk to Swanson up in an attic.
There's an effective moment with Swanson slowly walking towards Sharrett and he freaks out.
There's a great wrestling moment when Laborteaux tries to stop Sharrett for leaving his house to call the police along with a good punch in the nose too.
There's a nice shot of a window with a body double of Swanson's crashing through and attacking.
Great slow motion shot on the school doors opening while the school is on fire and Spacek walking out.
We see a good take on supporting actor Andrew Roperto cornering Laborteaux on his bike and beating him up.
A good shot on Swanson walking near a dark alleyway towards Roperto with cold expressionless looks and really knew how to act brutal towards him.
There's a touching moment with Swanson and Laborteaux acting caring towards one another but then the moment breaks when she is cornered by police officers in which Laborteaux really knew how to scream at them not to shoot.

We have plenty of adventureous keyboard playing by the likes of Charles Bernstein in which he really knew how to belt out the music as well as a funky score for the opening and ending credits.