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CrapScore 79, Premium Crap

Maximum Overdrive

“Imagine your worst nightmare...machines take over the world!”

Premium Crap. CrapScore 79, rated by 1 admin.

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Why it’s crap
Machines turn murderous and a truck-stop siege becomes an argument conducted through horns, engines and heavy metal. The premise is ludicrous, the characters are broad, and the film's commitment to vehicular hostility makes subtlety entirely unnecessary.

Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones

The club’s verdict

Acting
7.5/10
Plot
8.5/10
Effects
7/10
Dialogue
8/10
Rewatchability
8.5/10
  • “The machines have unionised, and negotiations are going badly.”

    @flabbergasted_jones, scored it 79

Synopsis and movie facts

When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of murderous 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines…Or be killed by them.

Released
1986
Directed by
Stephen King
Running time
98 min

Starring

  • Emilio Estevez as Bill Robinson
  • Pat Hingle as Hendershot
  • Laura Harrington as Brett
  • Yeardley Smith as Connie
  • John Short as Curt
  • Ellen McElduff as Wanda June
  • J.C. Quinn as Duncan
  • Christopher Murney as Camp Loman

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