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Maximum Overdrive (1986)

Film · 1986 · 98 min · R · Horror · Action · Science Fiction

Imagine your worst nightmare...machines take over the world!

When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of murderous 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines…Or be killed by them.

Directed by Stephen King

Starring Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Yeardley Smith, John Short, Ellen McElduff, J.C. Quinn, Christopher Murney

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In cinemas25 July 1986
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First release anywhere13 July 1986

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