

Deadly Friend
There's no one alive who'll play with the girl next door.
When tragedy strikes his remarkable robot and the beautiful girl next door, lonely teenage genius Paul tries to save them by pushing technology beyond its known limits into a terrifying new realm.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $9M
- Language
- English
- child abuse
- artificial intelligence (a.i.)
- based on novel or book
- resurrection
- revenge
- robot
- exploding head
- alcoholic
- brawl
- circuit board
- paranoiac
- android horror
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR10 Oct 1986
BrazilBR
- Digital / OTT18HBO Max29 Sept 2021
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1612 Feb 1987
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Deadly Friend was released on 10 October 1986.
Audience reviews
1- W6/10
Wuchak
8/15/2022
**_Underwhelming Craven film that meshes sci-fi, teenage romance and horror_** A boy genius specializing in brain research and robotics (Matthew Laborteaux) moves to the town of Welling with his mother (Anne Twomey) where he starts an apprenticeship at the university. He befriends a paper boy and romances an abused neighbor girl (Michael Sharrett and Kristy Swanson respectively). When tragedy strikes, he uses his …
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