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Film: Maximum Overdrive

"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself."
Stephen King in the trailer.

Maximum Overdrive is a horror film written and directed by Stephen King based on his short story "Trucks" from the Night Shift collection. The same short story was later adapted into a Made-for-TV Movie in 1997.

The movie centers around people trapped in a truck stop, surrounded by homicidal trucks and other vehicles who have gained sentience from radiation produced by a comet close to earth.

Yeah, it's one of those So Bad, It's Good films, but at least the whole soundtrack is made of AC/DC music.

Later King claimed that he was coked out of his mind while making this film.


This film contains examples of:


The Long WalkWorks By Stephen KingMisery
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