Maximum Overdrive

And then a fire starts in Buddy's car and blows the entire garage to hell.

The whole place goes up like the truck stop at the end of Maximum Overdrive.

Kind of makes me wonder if Stephen King saw that and was like, I'm going to make a movie and I'm going to do an even bigger explosion.

And someone was like, that's a great idea.

Yeah, yeah.

I think that...

Maximum Overdrive is an unbelievably fucking stupid movie, but it is saved by the outrageousness of the premise.

That movie is silly as hell.

A lot of movies filmed in Wilmington, which we've touched base before.

One of our best episodes up to date, Maximum Overdrive.

Yes.

the movie Trick or Treat, which we'll be covering.

What the hell happened here?

So, maximum overdrive.

Synopsis goes.

When Earth passes through the tail of a mysterious comet, machines around the world suddenly come to life and turn violently against humanity.

Actually, this is kind of like an important title in our entire series because this is the first and only instance where Stephen King wrote and directed a film.

And I do explicitly remember...

Like a teaser from the VHS era where you saw Maximum Overdrive being teased.

And Stephen King shows up on screen himself like, sometimes when you want to have something done right, you have to do it yourself.

Stephen King did not like the movie of The Shining, which, I mean, considering the movie versions of his books that he did like, I think Stephen King is a very bad judge of movie adaptations of his own work.

I mean, if you ever saw Maximum Overdrive, which was the movie that King directed... uh you know i didn't know it's like it's like a killer it's a killer semi-truck or something i think you know what else it does is in it uh it's it is terrible but but terrible in an entertaining way um you know and and yeah he complained about that he you know there are and and for a while there for a while there it's like um the the benchmark of of of of being a movie director for a lot of the 80s was how good how good how good a stephen king movie you could make and you had some of the best directors out there i mean obviously kubrick with the shining david cronenberg with the with the dead zone um rob reiner with misery and and stand by me oh misery's so

good

and it's like every it's like every every good director had at one point or another had to take a shot at a King movie and see what they could make of it.