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Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American horror film written and directed by Stephen King. [5] The film stars Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, and Yeardley Smith. The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King's short story "Trucks", which was included in the author's first collection of short stories, Night Shift, and ...
- $9 million
- AC/DC
- July 25, 1986
- Martha Schumacher
Jul 25, 1986 · Maximum Overdrive: Directed by Stephen King. With Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Yeardley Smith. A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.
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- Stephen King
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- Action, Comedy, Horror
Jul 25, 1986 · Stephen King | Maximum Overdrive. Works / Movies. Maximum Overdrive. Released. July 25th, 1986. Available Format (s) DVD / VHS. Director (s) Stephen King. Writer (s) Stephen King. Producer (s) De Laurentiis Entertainment Group. Distributor (s) De Laurentiis Entertainment Group. Based on the short story "Trucks" from the Night Shift collection.
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Sci-fi. Stephen King. Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 film based on the short story Trucks by Stephen King. The film was directed by King from a screenplay that he wrote himself. The film starred Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Christopher Murney, Yeardley Smith and J.C. Quinn as "Duncan".
Synopsis. When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
- 98 min
Jan 13, 2021 · Published Jan 13, 2021. Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive is well-known in the horror sphere as a thoroughly campy story about killer semi-trucks and the only cinematic adaptation of King’s work that he actually directed himself.