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A year before giving her class the lowdown about FERRIS BEULLER'S DAY OFF and around five years until losing her adorable baby fat for the deliberately camp-filled BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, Kristy Swanson starred in another Classic Monster-inspired b-movie directed by Wes Craven, a horror-genre director having so much silly fun here it seems he hadn't yet realized A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET had blown up on video...
Thank God because DEADLY FRIEND, a modern take on the FRANKENSTEIN tale, packs one helluva wallop, particularly a basketball beheading so pivotal and scene-stealing it should be backed by celebratory fireworks...
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Matthew Labyorteaux and Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
The real star is Matthew Labyorteaux, and with the swift 90-minute runtime his brainy and vulnerable suburban new-kid never develops past being the creator of the rudimentary robot taking down the neighborhood bully...
But the LITTLE HOUSE star does a fine job as a different kind of Dr. Frankenstein: a young grad student guest-lecturing in the same University class he's taking, and with a dependable single mom in Anne Twomey, the future looks bright...
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So with his equally nerdy yet whiny thus doomed best friend in Michael Sharrett, Wes Craven's DEADLY FRIEND is part sci-fi thriller while the last half... after Swanson goes from literal girl-next-door to reanimated blue-mascara-eyed monster in her creator's basement... is a body count kill fest...
That includes Swanson's abusive father, making her Samantha a killer worth rooting for till the inevitable tables turn, by which time the audience (along with Anne Ramsey's head) have already had a smashing time.
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Matthew Labyorteaux and Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Anne Twomey in DEADLY FRIEND and Matthew Labyorteaux |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND and Matthew Labyorteaux |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND and Matthew Labyorteaux |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND and Matthew Labyorteaux |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Matthew Labyorteaux and Michael Sharrett in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Matthew Labyorteaux and Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Matthew Labyorteaux in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Matthew Labyorteaux and Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Kristy Swanson in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Anne Twomey in DEADLY FRIEND |
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Matthew Labyorteaux in DEADLY FRIEND |
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