Movies Like Deadly Friend

If you liked Deadly Friend (1986), a horror and science fiction movie directed by Wes Craven, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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Subservience (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and science fiction
With his wife out sick, a struggling father brings home a lifelike AI, only to have his self-aware new help want everything her new family has to offer... Like the affection of her owner and she'll kill to get it.
2
Soulm8te (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also horror and science fiction
After a ruthless tech giant acquires a small robotics company, a grieving engineer is tasked with testing their new AI companion. But when he attempts to reprogram her to be a truly sentient soulmate, she develops…
3
Afraid (2024)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction
Curtis Pike and his family are selected to test a new home device: a digital assistant called AIA. AIA observes the family's behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can – and will – make sure nothing…
4
M3GAN (2022)
★ 7/10Also science fiction and horror
A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she…
5
Death Machine (1995)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and science fiction
Chaank Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting machine which is part human - part machine. So far, the Hardman project has been unreliable and has killed a number of innocent people. The genius behind…
6
Upgrade (2018)
★ 7.5/10Also science fiction
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now…
7
Child's Play (2019)
★ 6/10Also horror and science fiction
Karen, a single mother, gifts her son Andy a Buddi doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature. A contemporary re-imagining of the 1988 horror classic.
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Chappie (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he…
9
Demon Seed (1977)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.
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Wifelike (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction
A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the…
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Companion (2025)
★ 7/10Also horror and science fiction
During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover…
12
The Terminator (1984)
★ 7.7/10Also science fiction
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st…
13
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
★ 8.2/10Also science fiction
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from…
14
Terminator Salvation (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as…
15
Monsters of Man (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing…
16
Tau (2018)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and horror
Held captive in a futuristic smart house, a woman hopes to escape by befriending the A.I. program that controls the house.
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M3GAN 2.0 (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction
After the underlying tech for M3GAN is stolen and misused by a powerful defense contractor to create a military-grade weapon known as Amelia, M3GAN's creator Gemma realizes that the only option is to resurrect M3GAN…
18
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered…
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The Long Walk (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction and horror
In a dystopian America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.
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Morgan (2016)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and science fiction
A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.