Deadly Friend (1986)
A lesser effort from director Wes Craven in that it's not as popular as say A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Hills Have Eyes and of course Scream, but Deadly Friend is still a whole lot of fun.
The film follows teenage computer genius Matthew Laborteaux, as he transplants a hard drive of a sadly destroyed robot (Think Johnny 5 levels of awesomeness) into the brain of his girlfriend, accidentally killed by her abusive father. Kristy Swanson plays the girl who then goes on a neighbourhood killing spree.
This seems like Craven's riff on both Frankenstein and the previous years Re-Animator with it's ideas and whilst it lacks a little in genuine scares there's a lot to enjoy here, especially one of the craziest kill sequences in 80's horror as Swanson does away with a nasty crone across the street using a basketball, and it all culminates in a wild finale in a morgue.
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