Today's entry could have easily been called Stephen King on Stephen King, Stephen King the short stories writer and for the first time ever Stephen King, the movie director. Let's admit it, movie directors were always interested in turning King's horror best sellers into best selling flicks, and boy some guys did it brilliantly (as Brian de Palma's Carrie) and some others failed miserably, destroying many of Stephen King's greatest books, so our boy, Mr. King himself decided to take the matter into his own creative hands. Budget? hahaha everyone wanted to have signed Stephen King in the 80's!!! so he had no trouble at all setting the rules for his movie making debut: Choosing the actors, the writers, the special effects guys and even the amazing music soundtrack played entirely by Stephen King's favorite rock band AC/DC.
The man, the legend, the evil himself, Mr. Stephen King.
Some of the special effects.
Take all of the above mentioned ingredients and voila you have a masterpiece everyone wants to...oh wait! the movie failed miserably!! yeah, even with Mr. King's hands on it, it just didn't score, so King was told not to give up his daily job haha. Anyways here at Spam-Alternative we all know what makes a movie an entertaining piece of art or, an entertaining piece of crap, your choice of course; I for one think Maximum Overdrive is a must watch for 80's horror flicks.
a Truck Fatality!
Watch out with your Beaver!
Back in the day, 1986 to be accurate, Emilio Estévez was probably one of the most promising young actors to work with, so yeah, King got him the main role, and boy he delivers a pretty good job, making a believable strong character. The rest of the cast does deliver a good job as well, so why in the hell would King's debut film fail? I don't fucking know, and I don't fucking care movies are not meant to be legendary lessons, they're just meant to be fucking funny, and for the fuckers who want to fucking have fucking fun, I say let's fucking enjoy this motherfucking ride based on a short story written by Mr. King called "Trucks".
Optimus Prime gone wild.
I want more pots human shit!
The story is pretty simple, some strange energy flowing from a comet coming near our planet sort of screw things up for three days, and yeah, the fucking machines built to serve us, come to life to fuck us up good. So, the machines turn against our fleshy asses and start killing people all over the world. Mankind prevails, and we have a band of nobodies ready to deal with the business. The machines are lead by a Happy Toys Truck (Toys 'r' Us parody?) with the Green Gobling face as the truck front fender. If King paid the rights to Marvel Comics is beyond me. The soundtrack is another awesome feature of the movie, no fag fucking 80's pop music, just rock and roll as Satan told us to. AC/DC blows our asses up with a great compilation of some of their most powerful tunes, featuring "Who Made Who" a track about the issue depicted in the movie: Machinges messing with us? or us messing with machines?
Run Bitch run!!
This kid is screwing my chance of shagging you lady.
Kids, a common element in 80's flicks.
overall I rate this movie 10 stars out of 10. Everything here is great, the music, the special effects, the actors, the trucks, and the script telling us one day machines could rise and anal fucked us up for good, so please no A.I. we don't want any Terminators here.
Watch it and shag your ladies good after the movie is over. Here's is the movie trailer for you, my loyal freaks:
fuck, this was quite a drunk review, see you on the next motherfucking fucking review of another fucking classic, fuck yeah!
Oh! I forgot AC/DC made its own videoclip for this flick, hail Satan!
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