Deadly Friend

Deadly Friend is a 1986 film about the new kid in town who, after his friend is killed by her abusive father, attempts to save her by implanting robotic microchips into her brain.
 * Directed by Wes Craven. Written by Bruce Joel Rubin, based on the 1985 novel Friend by Diana Henstell.

She can't live without you.taglines

Tom Toomey

 * Hey, she's dead? Hey, what the hell are you doing, you didn't say anything about a dead body, we were supposed to save her life!

Dialogue

 * Paul Conway: [Elvira rolls the basketball inside her house] Hey, you can't do that.
 * Elvira Parker: Oh yes, I can. My property. My house. My ball.
 * Tom: What a witch!


 * Samantha Pringle: [Samantha has a nosebleed] Do you have some ice?
 * Jeannie Conway: Oh my God. Come on in. Sit down. Paul, get some ice. [to Samantha] Hold your head back, back. [to Paul] Hurry. [to Samantha] What happened?
 * Samantha Pringle: Nothing. I just get them sometimes.
 * Paul Conway: Here you go.
 * Jeannie Conway: Listen, sweetheart, this may be butting in where I don't belong, but don't you think someone should say something?
 * Samantha Pringle: For what, a nosebleed? Come on, I've had them since I was a kid. Ice will take care of it. I just forgot to fill the tray.
 * Jeannie Conway: Oh, Sam, I don't like this.
 * Samantha Pringle: I hate them.
 * Jeannie Conway: C'mon you know what I mean. It's criminal. He could go to jail.
 * Samantha Pringle: He's my father. Sometimes I want to roll a truck over his face but he's still my father.


 * Samantha Pringle: Daddy? Are you in my room?
 * Harry Pringle: [Harry grabs her from behind] Where have you been?
 * [he slaps her]
 * Samantha Pringle: I was studying Daddy, I had homework.
 * Harry Pringle: You lying little bitch!
 * [he hits her and she falls down the stairs and hits her head]
 * Harry Pringle: Okay, come on, now. None of this shit. You get the hell up. Samantha. I'm not joking. You wanna know what real trouble is? I mean it. You get the hell up and get in your room.


 * Paul Conway: [yelling at Tom as they're getting ready to flee the hospital, with Sam's body, in the VW bus] Goddammit! There's still a chance! Things we can do! We've gotta' go now - sit down!
 * Tom Toomey: I want out. I mean it... I'm gonna' throw up.
 * Paul Conway: Throw up later.
 * [they speed off]


 * Tom Toomey: [as Paul starts to operate on Sam's brain] Are you sure you know what you're doing?
 * Paul Conway: How do you think I built BB? I studied brain physiology and cognitive theory till it's coming out of my ears. I have ideas no one's ever thought of.
 * Tom Toomey: I'll buy that.


 * Neighbor: Old man Pringle and Mrs. Parker, both dead. His face was burned off.
 * Paul Conway: Elvira Parker?
 * Neighbor: Yeah, I heard somebody say she called the police. Said she saw Sam in her bedroom window. From what I hear, Elvira's head's all over the walls in there.


 * [Sam emerges into an evil version of BB and chokes Paul to his death, talking in a evil, whispering voice]
 * Samantha Pringle: Paul. Come with me, Paul.
 * Paul Conway: [screaming] NOOOOOOOO!
 * [Sam snaps Paul's neck]
 * Samantha Pringle: BB.

Taglines

 * She can't live without you.
 * Some people are just better off dead.
 * If you're not afraid of the unknown...
 * There's no one alive who'll play with the girl next door!
 * Grab A Friend before someone in the audience grabs you!
 * Not all nightmares happen on Elm Street.

Cast

 * Matthew Laborteaux - Paul Conway
 * Michael Sharrett - Tom Toomey
 * Anne Twomey - Jeannie Conway
 * Charles Fleischer - BB (voice)
 * Kristy Swanson - Samantha Pringle
 * Richard Marcus - Harry Pringle
 * Anne Ramsey - Elvira Parker
 * Lee Paul - Sergeant Volchek
 * Russ Marin - Dr. Johanson (final film role)