Title · no scrobbles indexed yet
Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American science fiction action horror film written and directed by Stephen King in his only directorial effort. The film stars Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, John Short, Yeardley Smith and Christopher Murney. The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King's short story "Trucks", which was included in the author's first collection of short stories, Night Shift,…
The first scrobble for this title is still propagating, but a community review is already indexed below.
Longform community posts about this title
Reputation of Stephen King as one of the most popular and successful writers of our time is in many ways built and maintained on the screen adaptations of his work, which at times seem too big in number to count. With so many of his texts being brought to the screen, it was somewhat inevitable that King would one day dabble in such job himself. His directorial debut, 1986 science fiction horror film *Maximum Overdri…More
No comments yet — be the first.
I'll be getting to the winners of the 90's sci-fi contest soon so don't anyone worry about that. For the time being I want to talk about a film that deservedly was panned by critics across the board, has terrible scores on all the major review sites, and honestly, is a really terribly made film. However, it's so absurd and poorly made that this actually makes it a joy to watch for the kind of person that enjoys find…More
Ok, there was a time where people thought that the only thing you had to do was talk about how you were going to make a Stephen King movie and well, everyone would go and see it. This movie was NEARLY proof that this would always work but well, didn't quite make it. They lost over a million dollars because wow, this movie is quite possibly the worst movie ever. \ *sexy AF* I don't know about you but when i look at t…More
There's a rumour that Steven King was coked out of his gord when he made this movie, and watching it you kind of get that impression. I'm still only an hour into the movie... the premise is typical King in which weird things happen to odd people in unique places. In this case a comet brings trucks to life and they start killing people. The people freak out but still have time to make poop jokes while in the sewers.…More
Ciao carissimi Steemians! Vi presento un film non molto recente che quando lo vidi per la prima volta mi piacque tantissimo, soprattutto per la colonna sonora interamente composta dagli AC/DC con le loro maggiori Hit, tra le quali “Who Made Who”, “Hells Bells” e “You Shook Me All Night Long” E' l'unica esperienza come regista di Stephen King, tratto da un racconto breve intitolato “Camion”. Gli AC/DC sono anche il g…More
Maximum Overdrive (1986) *Directed by Stephen King* Plot: Strange things begin to happen when planet Earth is cruising alongside some mysterious galactic green gas. Now all of the electronics have taken on a life of their own and have one thing on their mind... KILL! The story focuses on a group stranded at a truck stop in the middle of no where surrounded by rogue semi-trucks. They'll have to work together to survi…More