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Deadly Friend (1986)
Topic Started: Apr 9 2013, 11:41 PM (819 Views)
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Paul is a new kid in town with a robot named "BB". He befriends Samantha and the three of them have a lot of good times together. That is, until Samantha's abusive father throws her down some stairs and kills her. In an effort to save her life, Paul implants BB's computer brain into Samantha's human brain.
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Feb 26 2017, 03:00 AM
Hey guys, check this out:
https://www.change.org/p/warner-bros-home-entertainment-release-deadly-friend-director-s-cut-on-blu-ray-dvd

This is a petition for Warner Bros. to consider releasing Wes Craven's original vision for Deadly Friend on home video.

Wes and writer Bruce Joel Rubin originally envisioned the film to be more of a PG-rated supernatural sci-fi drama-thriller with a tragic & macabre love story at its center. Wes wanted to prove that he could do more than just horror. That was until WB screened the film to a test audience consisted of Craven's fan base; The response was negative, criticizing the lack of violence and gore seen in other Craven films, and it was when WB found out about Craven's popularity as a horror director. Thus WB demanded rewrites and reshoots to make the film more like a blatant slasher film, much to Wes's disappointment and frustration.

Though the petition may not come out successful, but if you are a die-hard Wes Craven fan and feel the need to repay him in some generous way, then maybe consider signing it, as I once did... For Wes. ;)
I don't think we'll ever get to see this version, sadly. Sorry, Wes. (rip)
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I'm in the middle of finishing this movie right now, thanks to TCM, of all places, I'm just not liking the rest of the picture as much as I did the first half. I should say third, rather. Once
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I feel the movie goes off track and never comes back, which is sad. Especially considering this could have been a great new direction for Craven's career; even though we might have never gotten Scream, which would have been an even bigger loss.

I'm fine with
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Now I really want to see Craven's original vision for this flick.

It has touches of Steven Spielberg's E.T. and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Part of me wishes Spielberg worked with Craven on this movie in almost the same way he worked with Tobe Hooper on Poltergeist. I say almost because I would still want this to be a Wes Craven movie, if you know what I mean. (troll)

The only other part that bothers me right now is the fact that
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Yea, it makes me wonder how this would've turned out had the asshole suits at Warner let Craven finish the film the way he envisioned it. Sure, we may not have gotten other great films that he did make, most notably Scream, but I think it would've boosted him to the big leagues and proved he was more than just being stuck in the horror genre. One of my other "What-If's" is if he had actually also directed Superman IV, that would've been cool to see him do a superhero movie.

But sadly, it's just a "What-If?" scenario, we can only dream big. :-/

And yes, that final shot was the stupidest idea to have ever come from a studio executive, but as Bruce Joel Rubin put it, you don't tell the executive at Warner Bros. that his idea stinks.
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He did do a superhero movie though. Not Superman, but Swamp Thing.
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