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1986 Certificate 18
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A nightmare world of machines are taking over the Earth. At first the problems seem minor as gas pumps stop pumping fuel, video games flash and beep uncontrollably, and soda machines spit change and soda pop wildly. However, when the carnage begins, a small group of people make a last stand against a horde of massive 18-.. Read more

Starring Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Christopher Murvey
Director Stephen King
Genres Horror

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Maximum Overdrive

A nightmare world of machines are taking over the Earth. At first the problems seem minor as gas pumps stop pumping fuel, video games flash and beep uncontrollably, and soda machines spit change and soda pop wildly. However, when the carnage begins, a small group of people make a last stand against a horde of massive 18-wheelers. A comic horror flick from Stephen King, based on his short story "Trucks."

Starring Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Christopher Murvey, Yeardley Smith
Director Stephen King
Studio MOMENTUM PICTURES
Run time DVD: 1 hr 34 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Horror
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 08 Sep 2003
Production year: 1986
Format DVD

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    …but minimum credibility, as horror maestro Stephen King decided his neon-lit prose needed his equally neon-lit direction. He makes a courageous debut with this story about machinery in a North Carolina small town coming to lethal life and besieging a group headed by Emilio Estevez and Pat Hingle. The trouble is that writer King should have explained to director King that you must not outpace your audience's interest, however well you manage the action. Then again, when you're a mega-bestselling author, you forget the little things. But those little things grow into bigger ones that devour any good intentions King might have started out with.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • "...[The] entire film looks good, highlighted by Armando Nannuzzi's crisp cinematography...[The] Heavy metal score by AC/DC fits like a glove..."

    • Variety
    • Posted 11 Mar 2005

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  • 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Are You Dead?

    This film is the best example I have seen of a movie being so bad that it's actually entertaining. Everything is terrible - the acting, the dialogue, the effects, the lighting. There are so many unintentionaly hilarious moments that it's just great. Check out the bit in the tunnel, where the lighting is moving every direction other than where the torch is pointing, and the bit where the waitress runs outside to tell the trucks 'We made you'. Oh, and listen out for when the newly wed bride asks her husband 'Are you dead'. Great stuff.

      • A customer from Staffordshire
      • Posted 11 May 2004 21:51

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Killer Trucks and a Killer Soundtrack!

    I love this film for two main reasons Its a Stephen King Film and AC/DC did the soundtrack for it! (I'm a fan of both)

    Ok some of the acting may be a bit dodgy but Maybe King wanted it that way as he actualy directed the movie himself (and also appeared in it as the guy at the cashpoint)

    Basicly the movie is about all electronic and mechanical machines from Trucks to electric carving knives and vending machines going crazy and trying to kill humans and a group of humans at a truck stop trying to survive

    Trucks and Blood and rock and roll what more could you want!

      • Martin Wood from Essex England
      • Posted 31 Mar 2005 20:58

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