History Film / MaximumOverdrive

** Why does their "Alien Ray" affect trucks, but not cars?

King later admitted that he was [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs coked out of his mind while making this film]]. This explains ''a lot.''

--> '''Wanda June:''' You can't WE MADE YOU!!! WHERE'S YOUR SENSE OF LOYALTY YOU PUKING THINGS!!! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WE!!! MADE!!! YOU!!!]]

* 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-— so it would be the loudest movie ever.

-->'''Wanda:''' WHERE'S YOUR SENSE OF LOYALTY YOU PUKEY THINGS!? WE - MADE - YOU!

** Rumor says that Creator/GeorgeARomero actually ''threw up'' at this scene when invited to a test screening.

** Rumor says that George A. Romero actually ''threw up'' at this scene when invited to a test screening.

The movie centers around people trapped in the Dixie Boy truck stop outside Wilmington, North Carolina, surrounded by homicidal trucks and other machines which have become [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever animate and dangerous]] from radiation produced by a comet close to earth.

Later King admitted that he was [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs coked out of his mind while making this film]]. This explains ''a lot.''

** The soda vending machine in this movie is shown shooting out cans of soda as projectiles at the Little League coach and then across the field at the kids. In real life, the machinery inside soda and snack machines are only capable of dropping products down into a chute, not shooting them at high velocity across a field. Even if a soda machine was to dispense all the sodas at once, it would only cause a pile-up and possible jam at the very worst.

** The soda vending machine in this movie is shown shooting out cans of soda as projectiles at the Little League couch and then across the field at the kids. In real life, the machinery inside soda and snack machines are only capable of dropping products down into a chute, not shooting them at high velocity across a field. Even if a soda machine was to dispense all the sodas at once, it would only cause a pile-up and possible jam at the very worst.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The attempt at DoingInTheWizard by having aliens being behind everything ends up [[VoodooShark raising more questions then it answers]]:

* ArtisticLicense: This movie requires some MST3KMantra ("It's just a show") due to a lack of {{Consistency}} in exactly ''what'' machines can come to life. Some mechanical items should be "alive" but aren't (like cars and the mechanical parts of the arsenal of weapons), and some things that really shouldn't be alive are (the 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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Later King claimed that he was [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs coked out of his mind while making this film]]. This explains ''a lot.''

The movie centers around people trapped in the Dixie Boy truck stop outside Wilmington, North Carolina, surrounded by homicidal trucks and other machines which have become [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever animate and dangerousl]] from radiation produced by a comet close to earth.

* ParodyRetcon: After the movie was released, King claimed he had [[IMeantToDoThat intended]] to film a modern BMovie.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Italy, the film was titled ''Brivido'' ("Shiver").

* StealthParody[=/=]ParodyRetcon: After the movie was released, King claimed he had [[IMeantToDoThat intended]] to film a modern BMovie.

The movie centers around people trapped in the Dixie Boy truck stop outside Wilmington, North Carolina, surrounded by homicidal trucks and other vehicles who have [[SentientVehicle gained sentience]] from radiation produced by a comet close to earth.

* PlugNPlayTechnology: Kind of a weird partial example. There's no actual interfacing of differing technologies per se, but the weird alien radiation which animates the Earth's gadgets does endow those gadgets with some unexpected abilities -- such as the ability to see/sense humans, or to move independently even with no built-in means of locomotion. In the short story, at least, the "alien ray" was supernatural.

** [[CreatorCameo Stephen King]] appears briefly as the man using the ATM machine in the opening.

''Maximum Overdrive'' is a 1986 horror film written and directed by Creator/StephenKing based on his short story "Literature/{{Trucks}}" from the ''Literature/NightShift'' collection (other stories from which were adapted into ''Film/CatsEye'', which was also produced by Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis). The same short story was later adapted into a MadeForTVMovie in 1997.

'''''Maximum Overdrive''''' is a horror film written and directed by Creator/StephenKing based on his short story "Literature/{{Trucks}}" from the ''Literature/NightShift'' collection (other stories from which were adapted into ''Film/CatsEye'', which was also produced by Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis). The same short story was later adapted into a MadeForTVMovie in 1997.

''Maximum Overdrive'' is a horror film written and directed by Creator/StephenKing based on his short story "Literature/{{Trucks}}" from the ''Literature/NightShift'' collection (other stories from which were adapted into ''Film/CatsEye'', which was also produced by Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis). The same short story was later adapted into a MadeForTVMovie in 1997.

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-->(before taking out the Happy Toyz truck with Hendershot's rocket launcher)
-->'''Bill''': Adios, motherfucker!

* ChainsawGood: As Deke rides his bike through the suburbs, man with a chainsaw stuck on his throat can be briefly seen.

* CorruptHick: Bubba Hendershot runs a truck stop that mostly employs people on parole allowing him to force them to work more hours then he has to pay them for. If they refuse, then he can get his friend who is on the state patrol to arrest them and send them back to jail. Billy theorizes that Bubba also sells guns on the side when his gun cache is found.

* DestinationDefenestration: During the bridge scene, one poor sod is shown flying through a windshield.

* PsychoStrings: Used a lot early on whenever a machine strikes, later used for some JumpScare moments.

** A man is [[GroinAttack struck twice 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.

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