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Stephen King's directorial début, and only movie as director. After seeing Maximum Overdrive, it's best that he has since stuck to writing. Based loosely on his own short story Trucks, after the Earth passes through the tail of a comet, electrical objects come to life and quickly turn killers. It stars Emilio Estevez, who along with King was nominated for a Golden Raspberry, for the movie. Even King himself described this literal car crash of a sci-fi horror as a "moron movie", as he put his director's chair into storage forever. Rumour is that King was coked-up throughout the whole production of this camp classic.
The movie is a "take your brain out" masterpiece of mayhem. No one is spared in what is just an excuse for blowing shit up to an AC/DC soundtrack. And let's be fair, there's nothing wrong with that. King's favourite band, AC/DC's classic album Who Made Who was released to coincide with the movie release. The album featured what are now AC/DC standards, such as the title track Who Made Who and Hells Bells. |
The real star of the movie isn't any of the human actors, it's the machines. In particular the funny rather than scary Happy Toyz Co., semi-trailer with the huge Green Goblin face attached to the grill.
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In a movie that contains scene after scene of machines going haywire, and stuff blowing up, you'd expect there to be some accidents. And Maximum Overdrive had its fair share. One involved the director of photography losing an eye, after being sprayed by splinters of wood, after a lawnmower went rogue. He later sued King for damages. The whole movie is littered with goofs and gaffs. In fact IMDb lists 43 goofs on its website.
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