Maximum Overdrive


Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American science fiction action horror film written and directed by Stephen King. The film stars Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, and a young Yeardley Smith. The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on Kings short story Trucks, which was included in Kings first collection of short stories, Night Shift.

As the Earth passes through the tail of a comet, previously inanimate objects ranging from weapons to electric signs to electronics to vehicles to lawnmowers to an electric knife start to show a murderous life of their own. In a pretitle scene, a man King in a cameo tries to withdraw money from an ATM, but it instead calls him an asshole, and he whines to his wife Kings real life wife Tabitha. Chaos soon begins as machines of all kinds come to life and begin assaulting humans a drawbridge inexplicably raises during heavy traffic, resulting in multiple accidents, most notably the black ACDC van and a watermelon truck while at a Little League game, a vending machine kills the coach by firing canned soda pointblank into his groin and then to his skull a driverless steamroller flattens one of the fleeing children.The carnage spreads as humans and even pets are brutally killed by lawnmowers, chainsaws, electric hair dryers, pocket radios, and RC cars. At a roadside truck stop just outside Wilmington, North Carolina, a waitress is injured by an electric knife and arcade machines in the back room electrocute another victim. Employee and exconvict Bill Robinson begins to suspect something is wrong when suddenly marauding big rig trucks, led by a black semitruck sporting a giant Green Goblin mask on its grille, run down two individuals and trap the rest of the civilians inside the truck stops diner. ........

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