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Maximum Overdrive · 1986

Maximum Overdrive

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

Stephen King · 98 min · United States of America

HorrorActionScience Fiction

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.

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5.8

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Budget
US$10,000,000
Worldwide revenue
US$7,400,000
Production companies
DEG

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Filming
Carolina del Norte
Setting
Carolina del Norte

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