Samantha Pringle

Samantha "Sam" Pringle, also called "The Deadly Friend", is young dying girl who was turned into a revived, yet riled killing machine because of the computer chip of a remote-controlled robot named BB implanted in her brain by her friend Paul Conway who tried to save her, and she is the main antagonist of both the 1985 sci-fi/horror novel Friend by Diana Henstell and its 1986 sci-fi/horror film adaption Deadly Friend directed by Wes Craven.

She was portrayed by Kristy Swanson.

She was fatally injured when Harry Pringle throws her down a flight of stairs; she dies in the hospital after her life-support equipment is turned off. Paul Conway brings her back to life by implanting a robotic "brain" inside her brain, and she dies once again when Sergeant Volchek shoots her in the chest as she rushes to attack him. Her body is shown afterwards in the morgue when Matthew comes back to try to resurrect her again, before the robot emerges from her body.