In 1986, horror overlord Stephen King released his directorial film debut with Maximum Overdrive, a campy, ninety-eight minute schlock-fest starring Emilio Estevez as heroic diner cook Bill Robinson.
Based on King’s short story Trucks, the plot involves an errant comet kickstarting a radiation storm on Earth – stay with us here – that instantly imbues all machines with malevolent consciousness. Possessed of murderous intent, the machines turn against humankind and next thing you know, we’re in a truck stop in North Carolina where Estevez and a band of plucky survivors attempt to hold off a gang of homicidal trucks.
