D: Wes Craven
Warner Bros./Pan Arts Layton (Robert M.
Sherman)
USA 🇺🇸 1986
99 mins
Horror
W: Bruce Joel Rubin [based on the novel
'Friend' by Diana Henstell]
DP: Philip Lathrop
Ed: Michael Eliot
Mus: Charles Bernstein
Matthew Laborteaux (Paul Conway), Kristy
Swanson (Samantha Pringle), Michael Sharrett (Tom Toomey), Anne Twomey (Jeannie Conway), Anne Ramsay (Elvira Conway)
Silly but enjoyable variation on Frankenstein
about a teenage boffin who creates a robot with artificial intelligence. However, when his girlfriend Samantha is murdered, he implants the robots brain in her body and she
awakens to go on a murderous rampage for revenge.
As ridiculous as it is, the film is a great
deal of fun, with as much comedy as it has scares. The acting is truly terrible though, aside from Anne Ramsey as a cantankerous elderly neighbour who becomes the victim of the
film's most memorable death scene.
5/10