Really funny movie. The ones rating this as bad is missing the entire point :)
Good cheesy fun! I enjoyed this way more than i probably should of done :D
Oh wow did I thoroughly enjoy that. Brings me back to my childhood!
I absolutely love this movie! Any time I see it streaming we watch it again. It’s bad, in a good way!
Cheesy AF but I laughed a lot and the music is great. It's worth a watch.
Woof! Wow this was bad
A guilty pleasure most at home on late night cable TV, repeated (uncensored) viewings diminish some of its charm. It’s raw, coked-out Stephen King. The soundtrack remains timeless.
Seems like the '80s blessed us with a million trash bag exploitation movies like this one. Set in a hayseed truck stop on the eve of a week-long comet encounter, whose ensuing green aurora causes various mechanical devices to gain sentience and seek human victims, Maximum Overdrive is an obvious slab of VHS rental bait, sold more on the wacky concept and flashy cover art than the meat of the film itself. Stephen King wrote AND directed, his first (and so far only) credit behind the camera, although he was admittedly trapped in a powdery white haze at the time and rumors assert that frequent set visitor George A. Romero actually ghost-directed most of it. All the best parts are of the chunky, gore-wet variety, so the shoe does fit.
Overdrive's first half-hour is where it should begin and end; a hilarious stretch of hopelessly idiotic ideas and setups that sent me back to the days of sneaky, low-volume, late-night HBO marathons during my youth. Seven-year-old Sean would've alternately covered his eyes and goggled, dry-mouthed, at scenes depicting an evil soda dispenser, a rampaging steam roller, an electric knife gone rogue or a sinister wall clock, connected to a mangled corpse by way of a long, bloody trail. How did a clock kill somebody? Why did it hang itself back on the hook after it was finished? Such concerns are better left unanswered, I guess, because I still had an awful lot of them when Emilio Estevez and company finally escaped their captivity to kick off the credit roll.
AC/DC's accompanying soundtrack is both a hit and a miss; the tunes set this film apart from its contemporaries and lend it a coolness factor that's still fresh thirty-odd years later, but they're also bluntly shoehorned in because King was a fan and have absolutely nothing to do with the proceedings.
If you happen to catch it on cable, I suppose there are worse ways to burn a few minutes, but skip the second and third acts.
I've always loved this movie but why didn't the comet take over Curtis and Connie's car?
We do not negotiate with TIRrorists.
One of the most infamous films of the ‘80s, Maximum Overdrive is wildly entertaining. Written and directed by Stephen King, when an astrological phenomenon causes machines to rise up and attack mankind, a group of survivors take refuge at a truck station. It’s a really exciting concept that allows for a lot of crazy scenes of machines running amuck. And, AC/DC rocks the shit out of this movie with their soundtrack, which includes such hits as “Who Made Who,” “You Shook Me All Night Long,” and “Hells Bells.” Though it’s incredibly cheesy and over-the-top, Maximum Overdrive delivers a ton of dumb fun.
Good Lord, what a glorious train wreck. Nobody seems to be trying hard on this one. The end result is hilariously bad.
Hands down the most assinine attempt of a horror flick ever, but it doesn't matter. Maximum Overdrive has the best damn soundtrack of any movie ever, so the lines and acting can be as cheesy as the blue cheese your grandmother tortured you with as a kid, I will still re-watch it just for the fact that the music makes me so damn happy.
AC/DC + cheesy 80s horror = a damn win in my book
To be a little serious at the end here...
Maximum Overdrive is NOT a good movie. It's more a comedy than a horror flick...which probably wasn't the intention. It has some of the cheesiest lines ever written, and the acting is bad. Though...It's still an above average watch... AC/DC remember!!!!
Shout by carra77BlockedParent2017-03-22T02:48:25Z
One of my favourite movies, what's not to like?