Deadly Friend

The contentions around this film’s post-production are a bit notorious. After a negative test screening full of Wes Craven’s fans, the studio looked at the film that Craven had created, a light-hearted tale of a young man, a young girl, and a robot, and decided that it wasn’t bloody enough for his fans. So, they forced him to go and shoot several new, very bloody scenes to insert into the film to give it the R-rating Craven’s fans expected. The original vision was lost, and only a compromise...