I would actually call this a blueprint about how movie makers get screwed by the studios and how bad censors are when it comes to certain things in movies.
It's a great little story about a genius young man named Paul (Matthew Labyortwaux) who moves into a new neighborhood with his mother and befriends a beautiful girl named Samantha (Kristy Swanson).
Both Paul and his mother suspect she is being abused by her father, and one day he goes too far and kills her. Paul is beside himself and he takes a robot brain chip and implants it in Samantha's brain.
With this she comes back to life and seeks revenge on everyone who was cruel to her and to Paul. Samantha has some unique kills including the infamous basketball scene. More on that in a bit.
You can tell that there was a lot of tampering with this movie as it teeters between being a straight horror film and a twisted tale of Paul and Samantha loving each other. Upon initial release, director Wes Craven made the film as a bizarre love story and when screened for test audiences, it was panned.
Warner Brothers hated it and ordered more gore and horror. Craven disliked the idea and disowned the movie. Then to top everything off, the movie went to the MPAA 13 times before it was approved after re-editing and such.
The uncut version I have includes the extended basketball scene where Samantha kills a gun toting old woman named Elvira (Anne Ramsey) by throwing a basketball at her head and with such force it explodes the woman entire head and her body walks around the room spurting blood everywhere. It's a scene not soon forgotten.
I enjoyed this film and you might enjoy it as well if you haven't seen it. Swanson has always been a favorite of mine, so maybe I'm partial to it because of her.
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