Maximum Overdrive isn't one of the truly worst adaptations. It was later adapted as Trucks (a 1997 TV-movie) and that was far worse. I don't think it's a great movie, but at least it's entertaining.
It's interesting that John Carpenter said about Christine that what he found hardest was to make the car scary. I wonder if to a degree this was a problem for King too when he did Maximum Overdrive. The most prominent truck in the film has a Green Goblin face on the front, as if they wanted to give it more of a personality and make it more distinct. I don't feel it really works well though, it just seems to add to the overall comedic atmosphere. It's hard to think he really intended this movie to be seriously scary - even if he says so in the trailer. Like other movie-adaptations he was directly involved in, like Creepshow or Sleepwalkers, you keep feeling comedy was as much on his mind as horror. They're so over-the-top, although the advertising campaigns still try to sell them as being really scary.
In Germany it's called Rhea-M, after the name of the comet the earth passed through the tail of.
The German blu-ray has quite some extras:
It's interesting that John Carpenter said about Christine that what he found hardest was to make the car scary. I wonder if to a degree this was a problem for King too when he did Maximum Overdrive. The most prominent truck in the film has a Green Goblin face on the front, as if they wanted to give it more of a personality and make it more distinct. I don't feel it really works well though, it just seems to add to the overall comedic atmosphere. It's hard to think he really intended this movie to be seriously scary - even if he says so in the trailer. Like other movie-adaptations he was directly involved in, like Creepshow or Sleepwalkers, you keep feeling comedy was as much on his mind as horror. They're so over-the-top, although the advertising campaigns still try to sell them as being really scary.
In Germany it's called Rhea-M, after the name of the comet the earth passed through the tail of.
The German blu-ray has quite some extras: