Deadly Friend, like The Hand, is another film released from the Warner Bros. vault, and just like The Hand, its understandable why it was buried in the first place.
Deadly Hand is directed by Wes Craven and was released after Nightmare, and in between the Hills Have Eyes 2 and The Serpent and the Rainbow. The film is about a teenager who has built his own thinking robot named BB, voiced by Charles Fleischer who was also in A Nightmare On Elm Street and did the voice for Roger Rabbit. In this film however he sounds like a retarded gremlin. Seriously, BB sounds like a kid with down syndrome or something. Totally irritating but funny at the same time. Anyway BB dies and so does his new girl friend so he decides to put BB's computer brain in her head ala Dr. Frankenstein. The only problem is that she starts killing everyone that has done her wrong.
This film is seeped in 80s cheese. From the music to the sentiments of the characters. The film would have actually worked better as a teen thriller flick but instead has a few graphic gore scenes sending it into the R rating. The overall feel of the film seems confused. As if Wes wanted to make it scary but the producers wanted to make it fun. What comes out is a mishmash of ideas and feelings.
On the plus side an old lady played by the Goonies' Anne Ramsey gets her head exploded by a basketball thrown by the killer. Deadly Friend gets a 6/10 for that scene alone. Hilarious.
Gore - mild to medium
Nudity - none
Overall - 6/10
Deadly Hand is directed by Wes Craven and was released after Nightmare, and in between the Hills Have Eyes 2 and The Serpent and the Rainbow. The film is about a teenager who has built his own thinking robot named BB, voiced by Charles Fleischer who was also in A Nightmare On Elm Street and did the voice for Roger Rabbit. In this film however he sounds like a retarded gremlin. Seriously, BB sounds like a kid with down syndrome or something. Totally irritating but funny at the same time. Anyway BB dies and so does his new girl friend so he decides to put BB's computer brain in her head ala Dr. Frankenstein. The only problem is that she starts killing everyone that has done her wrong.
This film is seeped in 80s cheese. From the music to the sentiments of the characters. The film would have actually worked better as a teen thriller flick but instead has a few graphic gore scenes sending it into the R rating. The overall feel of the film seems confused. As if Wes wanted to make it scary but the producers wanted to make it fun. What comes out is a mishmash of ideas and feelings.
On the plus side an old lady played by the Goonies' Anne Ramsey gets her head exploded by a basketball thrown by the killer. Deadly Friend gets a 6/10 for that scene alone. Hilarious.
Gore - mild to medium
Nudity - none
Overall - 6/10
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