Maximum Overdrive (DVD) Reviews

Director: Stephen King Producer: Martha Schumacher Writer: Stephen King Stars: Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, J.C. Quinn, Christopher Murney Music performed by AC/DC Note: this is a review on the movie only, mainly because I watched this on VHS video and there are no extras on the video, although ...  Read the complete review

Stephen King is a great, if not the greatest horror writer alive today, but when it comes to the film adaptations of his books, I've always felt that they've been hit or miss. Thankfully Maximum Overdrive is not as bad as some people (and critics) wanted me to believe, and despite a few failing is beyond doubt a hit. Based in North ...  Read the complete review

There is undoubtably no other author quite so abused and misused by the movie industry than Stephen King. His books are regular visitors to the very highest reaches of the best-sellers lists, sell and delight millions across the globe(they bore me these days incidentally, but that's besides the point) and yet have been consistently made into ...  Read the complete review

With this movie, Stephen King's directorial debut, the author siad he wanted to make a trash B-movie. And boy, did he succeed! Based loosely on his short story Trucks, the has Earth passing through the tail of a comet. A side effect of this is that machines develop a mind of their own and decide to kill everyone! From a killer coke vending ...  Read the complete review