Maximum Overdrive

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Language * No Sexual Situations * No Nudity * Not Particularly Gory *</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1986/Color/97 Min./KLV-TV & Karl-Lorimar Video & De Laurentis Training Group, Inc. & DEG/Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.............Stephen King</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Stephen King</B></div> <div> <B>Music................AC/DC</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........Martha Schumacher</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Martha Schumacher</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects by Dean Gates and Steven Galich </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Bill Robinson..Emilio Estevez</B></div> <div> <B>Henderschott...Pat Hingle</B></div> <div> <B>Brett..........Laura Harrington</B></div> <div> <B>Connie.........Yeardley Smith</B></div> <div> <B>Wanda June.....Ellen McElduff</B></div> <div> <B>Duncan.........J.C. Quinn</B></div> <div> <B>Curt...........John Short</B></div> <div> <B>Loman..........Chris Murney</B></div> <div> <B>Deke...........Holter Graham</B></div> <div> <B>Hardey.........Frankie Faison</B></div> <div> <B>Joe............Pat Miller</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: What to say? First, the rock music blares pretty much constantly through the film.  If you take the film as a kind of extended heavy metal rock video, it is just boring, however, taken as a horror movie it's something less. A few scenes of mayhem such as the pileup on the bridge might allow you to focus your eyes for a few moments. The pettiness of a few of the machine attacks might lead us to think that there will be some humor in the film but that too fades. As the machines menace group after anonymous group, even the M-TV fans will wilt. If you take it as a horror movie, science fiction movie, or action movie, it is just impossible. Perhaps the trucks forever circling are supposed to evoke some surreal, Ianesconian effect. If so, it succeeds--you will surely turn off the video or go and get a sandwich or search out the solace of alcohol. What is with the Vichy thing? Like so much in this film, it is simply left hanging, as we move on to the next tedious scene. There is nothing scary or interesting about machines attacking humans. Obviously, King has some phobias that the rest of us don't share. Gee, we wonder why King never again got the directing bug after this one. That a rookie director is responsible for this is obvious, that it came from the pen of the world's preeminent horror writer barely believable, were it not for his nagging habit of prortraying animated machinery. Stephen, bubby, no more possessed cars or trucks! Write it down and remember it.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: The Earth passes through the tail of Rhea-M, a rogue comet for 8 days. In Wilmington, North Carolina, electrical devices begin using strong language and acting on their own. Havoc is wreaked on the populous. Bill (Estevez) slings hash at a trucker joint where the pinball and Coke machines are acting up. Robinson is an ex-con and Henderschott uses the fact to exploit him and the other employees who he hires from the pen. Soon the machines begin attacking with deadly intelligence. When the trucks by the truckstop get into gear, there's no leaving for the group. Henderschott does happen to have a sizable arsenal in the basement, and the trucks are held off with bazookas. A mounted machine gun shows up and after gunning down a few people to get the message across, the truck stop becomes the local Vichy France--the humans filling the tanks for the murderous trucks which arrive at a steady flow. What will our heroes do? Can they make it to the safety of the sea? Of course, given that motor boats are machines, and airplanes can dive into a boat out at sea, it is not clear how they will be helped by this stratagem. </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>