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**In a throwaway line, a radio station reports that "some machines are waking up slower than others."
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The boy who just arrived knows Morse code.
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* ArtisticLicense: This movie requires some MST3KMantra ("It's just a show") due to a lack of {{Consistency}} in exactly ''what'' is a machine that can come to life. Some mechanical items should be "alive" but aren't (like cars and the mechanical parts of the aresenal of weapons), and some things that really shouldn't be alive are (the vehicle pedals, the valve on the gas truck, the swivel for the small military car's machine gun).

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* ArtisticLicense: This movie requires some MST3KMantra ("It's just a show") due to a lack of {{Consistency}} in exactly ''what'' is a machine that can come to life. Some mechanical items should be "alive" but aren't (like cars and the mechanical parts of the aresenal of weapons), and some things that really shouldn't be alive are (the vehicle pedals, side-view mirror moving, the valve on the gas refill truck, the swivel for the small military car's machine gun).
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* ArtisticLicense: This movie requires some MST3KMantra ("It's just a show") due to a lack of {{Consistency}} in what is a machine that can come to life. Some mechanical items should be "alive" but aren't (like cars and the mechanical parts of the aresenal of weapons), and some things that really shouldn't be alive are (the vehicle pedals, the valve on the gas truck, the swivel for the small military car's machine gun).

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* ArtisticLicense: This movie requires some MST3KMantra ("It's just a show") due to a lack of {{Consistency}} in what exactly ''what'' is a machine that can come to life. Some mechanical items should be "alive" but aren't (like cars and the mechanical parts of the aresenal of weapons), and some things that really shouldn't be alive are (the vehicle pedals, the valve on the gas truck, the swivel for the small military car's machine gun).
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* ArtisticLicense: This movie requires some MST3KMantra ("It's just a show") due to a lack of {{Consistency}} in what is a machine that can come to life. Some mechanical items should be "alive" but aren't (like cars and the mechanical parts of the aresenal of weapons), and some things that really shouldn't be alive are (the vehicle pedals, the valve on the gas truck, the swivel for the small military car's machine gun).
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* SceneryGorn: At one point, Deke slowly rides his bicycle through the streets of a neighborhood littered with bloody, butchered corpses. Even with the [[SoundtrackDissonance incongruous rock soundtrack]], it's one of the more effective and properly disturbing parts of the film.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: [[invoked]] Subverted - Stephen King claims it ''was''.
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* VengefulVendingMachine:
** A man is [[GroinAttack struck first in the nuts]] and [[TapOnTheHead then on the forehead]] by soda cans that shoot violently out of a vending machine. It's unclear, but likely, that he dies from the second blow.
** In the beginning, there is a scene where a [[CreatorCameo cameoing]] Creator/StephenKing gets called an asshole by an ATM.

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* ClosedCircle: the truck stop

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* ClosedCircle: the The truck stopstop.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Italy, the film was titled ''Brivido'' ("Shiver").
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[[caption-width-right:270:[[EarWorm Who made who / who made you....]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:270:[[EarWorm Who [[caption-width-right:270:Who made who / who, who made you....]]]]
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* TheCameo: Bandmembers of AC/DC appear briefly on a boat in the bridge scene.
** [[CreatorCameo Stephen King]] appears briefly as the man using ATM machine in the opening.



* PopStarComposer: Soundtack in its entirety is made from Music/{{ACDC}} songs.



* RecycledTrailerMusic: The trailer uses "Chariots of Pumpkins" from ''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch''.



--> "This machine just called me an asshole!"

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--> "This -->This machine just called me an asshole!"asshole!


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* ShoutOut: The light aircraft flying recon for the trucks is [[Film/ApocalypseNow playing "Flight of the Valkyries" on its radio.]]

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'''''Maximum Overdrive''''' is a horror film written and directed by Creator/StephenKing based on his short story "{{Trucks}}" from the ''NightShift'' collection. The same short story was later adapted into a MadeForTVMovie in 1997.

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'''''Maximum Overdrive''''' is a horror film written and directed by Creator/StephenKing based on his short story "{{Trucks}}" from the ''NightShift'' ''Literature/NightShift'' collection. The same short story was later adapted into a MadeForTVMovie in 1997.



-->'''Bill''': "Adios, motherfucker!"
-->'''Bubba''': "That one's deported for sure!"
* {{Camp}}

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-->'''Bill''': "Adios, motherfucker!"
Adios, motherfucker!
-->'''Bubba''': "That That one's deported for sure!"
* {{Camp}}
sure!



* MoreDakka: Hendershot's gun collection in the truck stop's basement and at one point trucks call an armed military vehicle for assistance.

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* MoreDakka: Hendershot's gun collection in the truck stop's basement and at one point serves this puprpose for the protagonists.
** At one point, the
trucks call an armed military vehicle for assistance.



* {{Recycled In SPACE}}: ''Maximum Overdrive'' is [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead George A. Romero's]] [[Film/DawnOfTheDead Zombie]] [[Film/DayOfTheDead trilogy]] WITH TRUCKS!!
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Happy Toyz truck's Green Goblin mask can have its eyes glow red.
* TheScourgeOfGod: The creepy, lecherous Bible salesman.

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* {{Recycled In SPACE}}: RecycledInSPACE: ''Maximum Overdrive'' is [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead George A. Romero's]] [[Film/DawnOfTheDead Zombie]] [[Film/DayOfTheDead trilogy]] WITH TRUCKS!!
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Happy Toyz truck's Green Goblin mask can have its eyes glow red.
* TheScourgeOfGod: The creepy, lecherous Bible salesman.
red glowing eyes.



* SquashedFlat: With a steamroller no less.

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* SquashedFlat: With One of the junior baseball player is flattened by a steamroller no less.steamroller.
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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: '''WE! MADE! YOU!'''

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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: '''WE! "WE! MADE! YOU!'''YOU!"

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* TheScourgeOfGod: the creepy, lecherous Bible salesman.

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* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Happy Toyz truck's Green Goblin mask can have its eyes glow red.
* TheScourgeOfGod: the The creepy, lecherous Bible salesman.
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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: '''WE! MADE! YOU!'''
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* AmericaSavesTheDay: Inverted as in the end it is a Soviet "weather satellite" which destroys the UFO hiding in the comet causing all the trouble.

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* AmericaSavesTheDay: Inverted as in the end it end. [[spoiler:It is a Soviet "weather satellite" which destroys the UFO hiding in the comet causing all the trouble.]]
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* {{Camp}}
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-> "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself."
->-- '''Creator/StephenKing''' in the trailer.

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-> "If ''"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself."
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'''Creator/StephenKing''' in the trailer.
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* CoolMask: The [[SpiderMan Green Goblin]] mask on the Kidz Toyz truck.

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* CoolMask: The [[SpiderMan Green Goblin]] GreenGoblin mask on the Kidz Toyz truck.
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Later King claimed that he was [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs coked out of his mind while making this film]].

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Later King claimed that he was [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs coked out of his mind while making this film]].
film]]. This explains ''a lot.''
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-> "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself."
->-- '''StephenKing''' in the trailer.

'''''Maximum Overdrive''''' is a horror film written and directed by StephenKing based on his short story "{{Trucks}}" from the ''NightShift'' collection. The same short story was later adapted into a MadeForTVMovie in 1997.

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-> "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself."
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->-- '''StephenKing''' '''Creator/StephenKing''' in the trailer.

'''''Maximum Overdrive''''' is a horror film written and directed by StephenKing Creator/StephenKing based on his short story "{{Trucks}}" from the ''NightShift'' collection. The same short story was later adapted into a MadeForTVMovie in 1997.



* UpToEleven: In an MTV spot advertising the film's release, King said he asked cinema houses to play the sound as loud as possible when showing his film Maximum Overdrive—so it would be the loudest movie ever.

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* UpToEleven: In an MTV spot advertising the film's release, King said he asked cinema houses to play the sound as loud as possible when showing his film Maximum Overdrive—so it would be the loudest movie ever.
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* SelfDeprecation: Combined with CreatorCameo.
--> "This machine just called me an asshole!"
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->-- Stephen King in the trailer.

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->-- Stephen King '''StephenKing''' in the trailer.
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* {{Recycled In SPACE}}: ''Maximum Overdrive'' is [[NightOfTheLivingDead George A. Romero's]] [[DawnOfTheDead Zombie]] [[DayOfTheDead trilogy]] WITH TRUCKS!!

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* {{Recycled In SPACE}}: ''Maximum Overdrive'' is [[NightOfTheLivingDead [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead George A. Romero's]] [[DawnOfTheDead [[Film/DawnOfTheDead Zombie]] [[DayOfTheDead [[Film/DayOfTheDead trilogy]] WITH TRUCKS!!
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->-- Stephen King in the trailer, [[AdaptationDecay rather ironically]].

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->-- Stephen King in the trailer, [[AdaptationDecay rather ironically]].
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* CreatorCameo: That was King at the ATM machine in the opening sequence.
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* GroinAttack: One soda machine does this.
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* AmericaSavesTheDay: Inverted as it is a Soviet "satellite" which destroys the comet causing all the trouble in the end.

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* AmericaSavesTheDay: Inverted as in the end it is a Soviet "satellite" "weather satellite" which destroys the UFO hiding in the comet causing all the trouble in the end.trouble.

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