History Film / MaximumOverdrive

* KnifeNut: In this case, an electric knife ''is'' the nut. When it gets close enough to a waitress, it cuts her arm.

-->'''[[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Nostalgia Critic]]''': [[spoiler:Oh, no, not the extraneous characters! They offerred so much in how little they offered!]]

* 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).
** In a throwaway line, a radio station reports that "some machines are waking up slower than others."

[[caption-width-right:299:[[Music/{{ACDC}} Who made who, who made you...]]]]

-> ''"Honey! Come over here, sugarbuns! This machine just called me an asshole!''

-> ''"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself."''
-->-- '''Creator/StephenKing''', apparently still in the middle of his mammoth cocaine bender, in the trailer.

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. The cast includes Creator/EmilioEstevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Creator/FrankieFaison, Creator/LeonRippy, and Creator/YeardleySmith.

* InfantImmortality: Averted in the attacks by the vending machine and the steamroller and played straight on Deke.

* BondOneLiner:
-->([[PreMortemOneLiner before taking out the Happy Toyz truck with Hendershot's rocket launcher]])
-->'''Bill''': [[GratuitousSpanish Adios]], [[PrecisionFStrike motherfucker!]]
** And earlier, during Hendershot's BigDamnHeroes moment after blowing up the garbage truck pursuing Bill, Brett, Connie and Curt:

-->-- '''Creator/StephenKing''' in the trailer.

* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: As with the other Stephen King films. A special case here, as he also directed the movie.

** How do the aliens [[AliensSpeakingEnglish know Morse Code and what an "asshole" is]]?

-->'''[[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Nostalgia Critic]]''': [[spoiler:Oh, no, not the extraneous characters! They off erred so much in how little they offered!]]

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Brett gives a hard one to Bubba after casually telling Deke that his father was among the earlier casualties.

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

* DumbassHasAPoint: Connie might be constantly whining and screeching at the top of her lungs, but she has a point about Curtis stranding them with everyone else at the Dixie Boy does them more harm than good, getting their cat (the ''only'' vehicle at that point in the movie that hadn't tried to kill anyone) destroyed.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: In stark contrast to [[DownerEnding the original short story]] it was based on, [[spoiler:the movie ends with Bill, Brett, Curtis, Connie, Deke, Handy (the driver of the Green Goblin truck) and a few others happily sailing off into the safety of an island, while the ''Soviets'' save the day firing down the UFO hiding near the comet causing all their troubles]].

** Brad leaves behind the rest of cast to take a ring from a corpse, and is then flattened by the Happy Toyz truck.

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. The cast includes Creator/EmilioEstevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Frankie Faison, Creator/LeonRippy, and Creator/YeardleySmith.

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. The cast includes Creator/EmilioEstevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, and Creator/YeardleySmith.

* DumbassHasAPoint: Connie might be [[MostAnnoyingSound constantly whining and screeching at the top of her lungs]], but she has a point about Curtis stranding them with everyone else at the Dixie Boy does them more harm than good, getting their cat (the ''only'' vehicle at that point in the movie that hadn't tried to kill anyone) destroyed.

* EveryCarIsAPinto: When the truck that was chasing Connie and Curt drives off the road, it catches fire in mid jump and explodes completely when it stops.

* BigDamnHeroes: Bubba shooting rockets at 2 18-wheelers who try to run down Brett, Billy, Connie and Curt.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The first solo death scene belongs to the black customer in the arcade room.