Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington

A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.

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57% liked it

12,325 ratings

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18% liked it

11 critics

R, 1 hr. 37 min.

Directed by: Stephen King

Release Date: July 25, 1986

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DVD Release Date: April 10, 2001

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  • October 6, 2009
    I really cannot understand why this movie has such a bad overall rating. According to me a movie doesn't have to have a great plot or so to be appealing. First of all I like the movie for the soundtrack by AC/DC. Actually, I learned to know the music of them by watching this movi...( read more)e. The 'Who made Who' theme song conducts the beginning of the movie excellent when a traffic bridge is starting to open beyond human control. The same goes for the other songs in the movie - they really add. Secondly I like the movie for the humor in it. It's not a comedy but some scenes made me laugh - like the bible sales man who gets mad when his car is hit by a truck and he runs outside the roadhouse - cursing like hell; the truck hits him into a sewer and his shoes stay behind. Or the beginning of the movie in which you see a guy withdrawing money from an ATM and on the screen the message appears 'you're an *sshole'. 'Sugar buns, this thing is calling me an *sshole !' If you watch closely you might also notice just before this scene a digital clock on the building on which the time changes into F*CK YOU. Maybe I'm just simple but I like the movie. Better than some not understandable romantic drama if you'd ask me.
  • September 24, 2009
    A cheesy but fun 80's horror/action film. Adapted from a Stephen King story and directed by the man himself! A guilty pleasure.
  • August 10, 2008
    Haven't seen this one in a while, but i have good memories of it. That Green goblin truck is hard to forget when you see it as a kid.
  • May 12, 2008
    One of the few Stephen King movies i like. Not as scarey as most horror movies. So not scarey i wouldn't classify it as horror..lol
  • August 13, 2007
    pull the plug on this disaster please!
  • October 30, 2009
    Stephen King's only directorial effort. And it shows. Even an AC/DC soundtrack can not save this one.
  • October 14, 2009
    I don't know about anyone else, but this film creeped me out. I remember when I was about 10 and my step-dad and I were watching this. He went to the kitchen to make us snacks and I followed, since it was on commercial; he touched the oven and pretended to get electrocuted. Me be...( read more)ing on my movie high, I freaked the hell out. Everytime I watch Maximum Overdrive I think of that memory. I miss that guy. But, AC/DC gloriously graces this film with their inhuman music, as well. I love it. Stephen King picked the perfect tracks to play from them. Hearing the score now when the machines claim a victim, it doesn't have that jolt like it used to. But, I'm rating it for how I felt when I was younger. A few scenes I thought were great was the private plane mowed into the roof of a schoolbus, the dead attendant at the gas station, and the bulldozer running over one of the kids on the baseball field. Stephen King has a gem in Maximum Overdrive.
  • October 2, 2009
    Alrighty then,
    the storyline seems odd, but intriguing.
  • September 28, 2009
    bring it on joker truck lol
    lawnmowers on a rampage funny as
  • September 18, 2009
    Pas le meilleur Stephen King....

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  • goodfinger922
    February 26, 2009
    I really liked this movie. It was fun watching them film it. The nite shot of the ice cream truck on Carolina Bch Rd next to Cribbs Auto Sales. And the final scene at snows cut at Carolina Bch. And then I ended up getting the face they blew up in the end of the movie. I rebuilt the ears and the jaw and sold it to a video store in Ohio. And I got to have dinner with Pat Hingle at Carolina Bch N.C.
  • Deidersbrat11
    September 22, 2007
    Just really bloody... didn't quite scare me. but it was still a creepy movie.. i loved it.
  • MrsJackHarkenss
    June 13, 2007
    This was a creepy friggin movie!!! I watched it when I was 8 or 9 and it scared the crap outta me!
  • punkytina
    October 7, 2006
    this is based on the short strory 'trucks' yeah? well i did like the novella?/short story but thought the film was a bit daft but its still one of stephen kings stories so i gotta say its damn good

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