Nightmare Weekend  (1986)
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(Foreign Titles)
Tagline(s):A Weekend of Relentless Terror ... Who Will Survive?
 When modern technology gets out of human control.
 Two Days And Nights Of Relentless Terror. Who Will Survive?
Nomination Year: 2022
SYNOPSIS: 

Created in the early days of home computers, and it shows. Here's the plot, near as I can make it. Dr. Brake has developed some sort of weird device that takes a personal item from an animal (or person, though he wanted to limit tests to animals) and turns it into a kind of self-aware metal sphere/pill that rolls and flies around, eventually jumping in the animal's (or person's) mouth to rewrite its DNA, causing profound behavioral changes. Brake's assistant, Julie Clingstone, has the hots for him...and is also evil: She has been conducting dangerous human trials and has sold this tech to a mysterious benefactor.

Meanwhile, Brake's daughter Jessica is super thirsty and determined to get laid, so has started hanging out with the bad boys down at the local saloon. She also has an pet AI daddy built her, in the form of a creepy Kukla-like puppet named George that gives her advice and connects to the (nascent) Internet to remote-control machinery when she needs saving. You can't make this stuff up.

While Brake is away, Julie has invited three college girs up to the isolated mansion for the (nightmare) weekend and uses them as guinea pigs to conduct ever more dangerous and debauched tests, until the whole thing becomes an acid trip: Naked pouncing, spider-kissing, self-mutilations...the works. She reveals her true colors and tries to steal the tech, but is eventually foiled by her ex-lover (now Jessica's) and Jessica herself.

The weekend I watched this was definitely justificaiton for the title.

Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
"Alas, Poor Yorick"
Attempted Rapist's Head Explodes
Um..Yeah. So...okay, George is a puppet/AI who can apparently protect Jessica from afar by controlling machines and by siccing the doc's new tech on her would-be rapist. And he kind of explodes.
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Worst Science
Get the Ball Filled with Synthetic Neurons
So, apparently this device takes something personal and converts it to an autonomous ball filled with DNA-rewriting "synthetic neurons." And don't let the bio-meter go above 50%. Yeah.
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"Let's Up The Rating To 'R'"
She Swallows
The girl is a bit coy -- until Julie spikes her with one of the spheres turned up to 100%, which jumps down her throat. Then she turns into a wanton sexual tigress unable to think of anything else.
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Directors
Director Claim to Fame
Henri Sala Basically, a director of a few dozen French pornos. And this. AKA "Karl Orion," "H. Sala," "Sand Sunsea" (oh, brother), and "Ken Warren." 
Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
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