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- Billy - Played by Emilio Estevez; this came out in the same year when he later wrote, directed, and starred in "Wisdom," which was about as huge a hit as this one; here he plays the hero; an employee at the Dixie Boy Truck Stop; spends a lot of the movie flirting with Brett and has an embarrassing make-out scene with her.
- Brett - Slutty, but cute girl; hitchhiking with the Bible Salesman; ends up in the Dixie Boy Truck Stop where she falls for Billy.
- Curt and Connie - The most annoying newlywed couple ever; Connie is played by Yeardley Smith, the voice of "Lisa" on "The Simpsons;" sadly, the two aren't offed in the film.
- Hendershot - He's the guy who plays the commissioner in the "Batman" films; real prick; owns the Dixie Boy Truck Stop; shot up by a military vehicle with a machine gun attached to it.
- Wanda - Bitchy waitress; blown away by the military vehicle.
- Joe - Half-witted mechanic at Dixie Boy Truck Stop; blown away by military vehicle.
- Duncan - Mechanic at the Dixie Boy Truck Stop; father of Deke; splattered by gas; crushed by a truck.
- Deke - Duncan's son; gets revenge for his dads death by putting some bullets in a drive-thru operating machine.
- Bible Salesman - Goofball, horny religious freak who's trying to sell some bibles and takes hitchhiker Brett along with him who he often feels up; we never find out if he lives or dies.
- Game Room Raider - played by Giancarlo Esposito, an actor who'd later make it big in parts in "The Usual Suspects," "Nothing To Lose," and the TV show "Homicide;" some homeboy in the Dixie Boy game room, stealing all the change from arcade machines and the coffee/cigarettes in the vendors; electrocuted by an arcade machine.
- Happy Toyz Truck - Lead evil truck that has a big, green joker face on the front; blown up by Billy.
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Stephen King had big problems with filmmakers, who'd often "ruin" his great books/stories with all the terrible adaptations of his short stories and books coming out, so what does he do? Writes and directs his own, which got hailed as King's worst film ever, though I think "Graveyard Shift" and "Mangler" were the worst ones. I really enjoyed this one however. It's a real stinker if you are expecting good horror and a decent film, but otherwise, if you're looking for a fun, ridiculous, campy b-movie to watch with the friends to crack up at, you're sure to enjoy this one.
The plot revolves around a comet that flies around earth and causes all the electrical devices to go haywire. From trucks, soda can machines, lawnmowers, sprinklers; the devices have been wiping everyone out, leaving most of the electrical devices ruling the world. It focuses in a small town with a bunch of idiots, Wilmington, over at the Dixie Boy Truck Stop, where a group of goofballs try to make it alive by dawn before they are wiped out by the vehicles and different mechanical devices.
There are a few problems with the movie; the pace doesn't move fast and the film runs out of steam in the last half hour, but otherwise, this is a great b-movie that provides a 98 minute laughfest. Make sure though that you avoid the TV version "Trucks," a pretty lousy version. |
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- All the people in Wilmington, North Carolina are annoying, blabber mouth idiots.
- Stephen King, the man himself, can make bad adaptations as well.
- Never give the finger to comet-powered vehicles.
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- 1 min - Does the earth look a little misshaped to you?
- 1 min - Here's a hilarious cameo with the man himself, Stephen King.
- 4 mins - Here's the great drawbridge sequence. Notice the young, athletic couple; the girlfriend wearing the headband is none other than Marla Maples Trump, making her star-making screen debut.
- 14 mins - Here's the painful soda can attack scene.
- 15 mins - OUCH, kid crushed by the steamroller.
- 19 mins - Oh no, here's the whining Curt and Connie.
- 22 mins - Don't you think Curt and Connie's car would've turned on them from the comet?
- 23 mins - What happened to the black marks that were on Curtis' right cheek when he fled from the vehicle attack?
- 30 mins - If you slo-mo Duncan's gruesome encounter with the truck, notice that Duncan is actually a dummy being held on some sort of stick device to hold still. Also notice how huge Duncan's head looks before it explodes and that the "feet" have been knocked off, but in the next shot you see him dead, he's just covered in some blood and he's in one piece.
- 40 mins - How'd the truck explode all of a sudden before even hitting the ground?
- 47 mins - Is it really necessary for us to have to listen to Joe taking a dump?
- 51 mins - Here's the ridiculously silly gratuitous make-out scene.
- 54 mins - This is the classic Wanda goes berserk scene.
- 73 mins - They killed Wanda, finally!
- 93 mins - Heres Emilio, trying his best impersonation of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- 94 mins - Geez, do we really need to hear Connie whining more?
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- Stephen King at an ATM: "Honey, come on over here sugarbuns. This machine just called me an a**hole!"
- Wanda: "Well, this thing was working fine just a few minutes ago and now I can't get peep turkey off this thing!"
- Curt: "I think I just loaded my pants!"
- Wanda: "We made youuuuuu!"
- Billy, doing his Schwarzenegger impersonation: "Adios motherf*cker!"
- Connie: "Honey, you're bleeding like a stuck pig!"
- Bible Salesman: "Get me out of this pit, or else Jesus will kill you!"
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| | Audio clips in wav format | SOUNDS | Starving actors speak out | |
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| File | Dialog |  | maximumover1.wav
| Brett: "And if you don't get your hand off my leg, you're going to be wiping your ass with a hook the next time you take a dump."
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| Hendershot: "You do what I said with that body?"
Fatboy: "Got him downstairs, sure. Pretty crispy, Mr. Hendershot; what happened?"
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| Connie: "Look out!" (SCREAMS)
Curt: "I think I just loaded my pants..."
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| Wanda: "You can't, we made you!"
| | Theme Song | Listen to a clip from the soundtrack. | |
| Click for a larger image | IMAGES | Scenes from the movie | |
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| The "Coke Machine of Death" doing its grisly work. This vending company used to be a supplier of tennis ball machines, or something. (Reaching, reaching...)
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Reply #17. Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM by Jay Ritchie
I loved this move.I could not stop laughed about the
pop-machine for so long.I realy like the steemroler part
only it would have bin more funy if it happend to
somewon who deserved it like Mr.Hendershot,the creepy salesmen or my Jr.High principal.AC/DC did a good
music-track but than agan thay always ROCK!
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Reply #18. Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by James Perry
I read the short story and was disappointed in the movie translation. However, when one does NOT expect Gone With The Wind one can have much more fun with a film like this. Campy, cheezy, should've been riffed by Mike (or Joel) and the bots!
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Reply #19. Posted on June 29, 2003, 12:29:59 PM by Skynet
I really like the movie I like the mask on the truck!!!! :)
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Reply #20. Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by TheGreatWasabi
Come on dudes, this movie is priceless. The violence is so fake and gratuitous that you can't help but laugh. The cameo by Stephen King was pretty good. I got a kick out of some guy being killed by a clock. The movie wasn't supposed to be serious! It's a comedy diguised as a horror flick. The AC/DC tunes were an added bonus. I agree, the steamroller and the pop machine were sheer genius. ^_^
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Reply #21. Posted on November 22, 2003, 09:41:57 PM by derek
Truly one of the most misguided movies ever made. But, in a strange way, oddly compelling.Kinda like watching neighbors fight, you know you shouldnt, you know its wrong, but you just cant help yourself. As a movie, its a piece of crap. As a guilty pleasure, A MASTERPIECE!!!!!
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Reply #22. Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by moviecollector
I love this classic. Great soundtrack by AC/DC. This is a true bad classic from the 80's.
'Who made me!'
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Reply #23. Posted on March 07, 2004, 01:17:51 PM by Brine
Truly a classic among great horror movies. I truly fell in love with the violence and suspense of this movie, and yet it was such a low quality it provided comedy at the same time. Surely one of the movies i can watch over and over again.
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Reply #24. Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM by janine
I love this movie....My fav of all time...
Not to mention AC/DC Music
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