Coming Soon to Blu-ray and Digital Steelbook is a film written and directed by Stephen King: Maximum Overdrive. The film stars Emilio Estevez (The Breakfast Club), Pat Hingle (Hang ‘Em High), and Laura Harrington (Paulie). Maximum Overdrive Synopsis Get ready for the ultimate battle of man vs. bloodthirsty machine in …
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The summer of 1986 was a respectable summer for movies. Top Gun dominated everything, Aliens was the first sequel that anyone ever even entertained the possibility of it being better than the original, and the Stephen King penned novella, “The Body,” was immortalized in film as Stand by Me. Rumor …
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Just in time for the release of release of It: Chapter Two, Tim League, the founder of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, has announced that the theater chain will be celebrating the master of horror, Stephen King, by screening a bunch of his films. According to League: “Kicking off with a month …
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Possessed vehicles and haunted vessels are nothing new in horror cinema. Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix) and Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) took us aboard a spaceship from Hell in Paul Anderson’s Event Horizon (1997). John Carpenter and Stephen King brought the world Christine in ’83, followed by King’s solo project, Maximum Overdrive, in …
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Genre sticklers, beware! Some movies are more genre fluid than others, and certain action movie scenes could fit into any horror movie. Here’s a list of 11 such movie scenes, arranged in order of bleakness! The criteria for list rank: 1. How many people a scene would hypothetically impact. The …
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I’ve written about Maximum Overdrive before, and I’m beginning to realize that I’m pretty obsessed with the film. I was lucky enough to remember when it came out, and witnessed firsthand the crazy trailer with the Halloween 3 music, the glowing Green Goblin eyes, and the crazy -ooking dude that …
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Stephen King recently turned 70. He clearly has no intention of slowing down or retiring from writing any time soon. He currently has several successful adaptations of his works. For the big screen, there’s Dark Tower and IT (see our review here). On smaller platforms, Audience Network’s Mr. Mercedes and Netflix’s …
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Thirty-one years ago on July 25, 1986, the cult classic Maximum Overdrive released in theaters. This classic is the only movie written by and directed by the Master of Horror Stephen King. The movie premise is simple: A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive …
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