We love a good killer computer movie. This soulless, lifeless look is damn disturbing and entertaining. The fact that AI in the real world poses a real danger to the world at large only makes it a more exciting topic in fiction. Truly two of the greatest and most iconic sci-fi films ever made. Terminator And Blade Runner, focus around the bloodthirsty, tough as nails androids. Last time, Alex GarlandGreat From the car has an unrivaled Alicia Vikander like a humanoid robot ready to kill in order to achieve its own liberation. Even more last time M3GAN has made a lot of noise since its release in January, making a damn good profit in a month and getting the topic of artificial intelligence and killer computers back in everyone’s head.
This is largely because how eerily inhuman these bots are, which is what makes them so unsettling. 2001: Space OdysseyHAL of HAL, with its soft shimmering light, has a voice too calm and emotionless to be anything but terrifying. Western worldMan in black (Ed Harris or Yul Brynnerdepending on which version we’re talking about) has a complete lack of empathy, making him capable of pursuing actions. majority disturbing film with artificial intelligence, however? My money goes to Wes Craven1986 science fiction film Fatal Friend.
Creepy little robot becomes main character in Deadly Friend
Back in 1986, horror maestro Wes Craven continued his masterpiece. A Nightmare on Elm Street (forgetting, of course, about the cruel and since then rejected The hills have eyes part 2) with a strange figure about an R2D2-like robot (Charles Fleischer) with a desire to kill, and a young woman (Christie Swanson), whose brain is in her head. Although originally conceived as a romantic sci-fi thriller, deadly friend quickly became something else in the hands of studio executives who wanted Craven to do more of the magic that did elm street such a success. In other words, they wanted horror, nightmarish episodes, and perhaps most of all gore.
Moving to a new suburban cul-de-sac, boy genius PaulMatthew Labyorto) and his robotic slash creation friend BB, who circles around like a deranged mars rover, doing his best gremlins impression, quickly (and awkwardly) making new friends. There Tom (Michael Charret), a local paperboy, and Samantha (Swanson), a famous girl in the neighborhood with a drunk and abusive father (Richard Marcus). In his spare time, when he’s not flirting with Sam and playing ding-don-ditch with the witch and reclusive neighbor Elvira (Ann Ramsey), Paul explores the potential of computer chips in an attempt to bridge the gap between human consciousness and artificial intelligence.
After being chased by motorcycle hooligans, BB soon shows off some serious fighting skills, fighting as dirty as he can, capturing the gang leader (Andrey Roperto) by the crotch and giving him an old kung fu grip. Look, it’s undeniable that few killer robots are less believable than BB. It looks like some kind of evil Wall-E, or like a battle bot that some kid crudely welded in his garage. Watching him ride around with Paul kicking bullies’ asses, it’s easy to imagine something a little more carefree. From all this one could make some kind of stupid teen comedy, a story about a good old boy and his dog (robot).
That all changes about thirty minutes later, when, after a prank goes horribly wrong, BB gets blown away by that pathetic old bat Elvira and her beloved shotgun. Paul is understandably devastated by the smoldering wreckage of his only creation, but everything balances out. worst when Samantha is thrown down the stairs by her sadistic father and falls into an incurable coma. In an ill-advised act of scientific genius, Paul comes up with a scheme: to place a BB computer chip in Samantha’s dying brain and bring her back to “life”.
Deadly Friend is a blood-soaked B-movie with artificial intelligence and blood-curdling meaning
Spoiler alert: Paul’s plan is working. Fine, like. After getting his mother drunk to steal her car, Paul somehow manages to steal a freshly deceased corpse from the hospital and insert a computer chip into its brain. And just like that, Samantha is alive! Only something is wrong. Suddenly she is silent, moving slowly and with shadows in her eyes, like one of Romerozombie. Arms outstretched, BB-through-Samantha continues the gruesome killing spree, starting with Samantha’s father. Craven fans Nightmare films can rejoice in the deliciously over the top gore and violence that follows.
Soon, that rogue robot killer Elvira gets her due when BB/Samantha kills her with a basketball (you have to see it to believe it!) in one of the most hilarious and grotesque murders in Kraven’s filmography. Eventually, BB is released from the prison of her chunky robot body and uses Samantha as a vehicle for her sweet revenge. Shouldn’t Paul be horrified at the consequences of his disgusting creation? Well he doesn’t, at least not Really. He is more concerned with protecting the BB-Samantha hybrid than preventing future killings.
The real horror deadly friend, nevertheless, comes from a certain meaning hidden in its center. Paul sees no problem in resurrecting Samantha with the brain (and personality) of a child’s computer program designed only to replicate the human. He sees no problem in resuscitating her body without having the real Samantha inside it. All her thoughts, her features, the way she talks and feels, almost everything that makes Sam Sam, everything is lost. Paul never seems to care. He’s just glad she’s still physically there, even if the Sam that he has, Really just an animated body. Meaning? Paul never really cared for Samantha, or at least he never saw her as a whole person. He saw her as a body, an object, something desired.
At the beginning of the film, Paul pushes Tom towards Samantha, asking him if he knows about this mysterious neighbor. Tom sarcastically replies: “Who is Sam? Great boobs!” “You’re telling me,” Paul laughs back. His motives are clear from the start. Here is a smart, charming, deeply troubled girl who treats Paul with nothing but respect and love. For Paul, all this is trivial. Does she look good? Is she attractive? These are the questions Paul wants answered. After transferring BB’s “brain” into Samantha’s body, there was nothing left of a young woman behind those shiny, lifeless eyes. However, everything is fine with Paul, since everything that is important to him has remained intact. Genius or not, deep down he is a misogynist, and it is his motives deadly friend such goosebumps.
Source: Collider
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