Stephen King film adaptations are hit or miss, from the highs of IT (take your pick) to the lows of The Lawnmower Man. The 1986 cult classic Maximum Overdrive is in the latter category. Well, well ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unlike King, Maximum Overdrive star Yeardley Smith remembers the movie's chaotic production during a hot North Carolina summer ...

Maximum Overdrive just hit Netflix. It’s Stephen King’s rowdy 1986 take on his short story Trucks, and still the only movie ...

There is very little wowwww in Maximum Overdrive, but it is not as bad as its reputation. What King said in the trailer, though, didn’t do anything to help manage expectations. Previous King films had ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before Yeardley Smith was known as the voice of Lisa Simpson on "The Simpsons," she starred in the movie "Maximum Overdrive." The ...

Let me take you back to 1986. Then, with dead serious eyes, King raises his finger, points at you, and declares, “I’m going to scare the hell out of you. And that’s a promise.” But, like King in that ...

Listen up, mother trucker! Lionsgate is back with yet another movie that has been elevated to nostalgic greatness with the honor of a Vestron Video collector’s edition Blu-ray. This time, we’re ...

Maximum Overdrive is a horror sci-fi film written and directed by Stephen King, loosely based on his own short story “Trucks”. The story takes place in a world which has been hit by a mysterious comet ...

Maximum Overdrive won’t ever go down in Hollywood’s history books as the best adaptation of a Stephen King story. But in some ways, it might be the legendary author’s most personal piece of cinematic ...