Amazon.co.uk: Maximum Overdrive [1986]: Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Stephen King: Video

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Maximum Overdrive [1986]
VHS ~ Emilio Estevez

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Actors: Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington
Directors: Stephen King
Format: Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
Language English
Classification:
Studio: 4 Front Video
VHS Release Date: 11 Sep 2000
Run Time: 94 minutes

Average Customer Review:

(9 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00004CJJ4
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,029 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
"I'm gonna scare the hell out of you" intones Stephen King in the trailer for his sole directorial effort, the much-maligned Maximum Overdrive. While the end result doesn't live up to that boast, this SF/horror tale isn't as awful as it's been described. King's script (based on his short story "Trucks") focuses on the patrons of a North Carolina truck stop, which comes under attack by a convoy of trucks and other machines animated by Earth's passage through the tail of a "rogue comet".

King's fans, tired of half-baked screen adaptations such as Cujo and Children of the Corn, expected a horror home run from Maximum Overdrive and instead got an old-fashioned drive-in movie filled with car crashes, cheapjack gore and fart jokes. Needless to say, they stayed away in droves; the film's failure helped ruin producer Dino De Laurentiis's DEG Films and forced King sheepishly to claim that he had created a modern-day Plan Nine from Outer Space. While the film is torpidly paced and often amateurishly acted, it's no worse than any direct-to-video thriller, and King's ear for dialogue occasionally shines through the gloom. Emilio Estevez and Pat Hingle register as a heroic cook and his black-hearted boss, respectively; the cast includes Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson's voice), Giancarlo Esposito and Marla Maples as a victim. --Paul Gaita, Amazon.com

Synopsis
Stephen King directs, for the first time, this story of a crazy night-mare world which is slowly being overpowered by domestic machines, lawn mowers, soda dispensers etc. Soon the attacks become serious, building to a last-ditch stand against a horde of massive trucks. Soundtrack features AC/DC.

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