Maximum Overdrive

A truck-stop cook and a hitchhiker flee big rigs demonized by a rogue comet.

Release Date: 2006-11-07, Rating R (Restricted),

DVDs. 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."

Maximum Overdrive - Dvd - Stephen King,leon Rippy,john Brasington,j. Don Ferguson,marla Maples,barry Bell,bob Gunter,frankie R. Faison,martin Tucker,richard Chapman Jr.,jack Canon,holter Graham,ned Austin,bob Gooden,bill Huggins, giancarlo Esposito,patrick Miller,r. Pickett Bugg,ellen Mcelduff,j.c. Quinn,emilio Estevez,pat Hingle,laura Harrington, yeardley Smith,john Short - Heroic Mission, technology Run Amok

Horror - general DVD - Writer-director Stephen King falls short in his debut at the helm with Maximum Overdrive, an absurd tale about a radiation storm that somehow animates machines across the world, causing them to turn on their makers. The film focuses on a group of survivors held captive at the Dixie Boy Diner by a group of bad-tempered semis. Led by Emilio Estevez, the diner-goers do their impression of Ten Little Indians, waiting their turn until each gets bumped off one by one. There are holes in the plot big enough for the semis to drive through; for example, why don't the trucks run over the diner at the start of the film rather than wait for ninety minutes? Maximum Overdrive's only distinction is that it is, without question, one of the worst films released in the '80s. - Maximum Overdrive (DVD)

Release Date: 2004-09-07, Rating R (Restricted),