Maximum Overdrive

Stephen King sous coke. C'est à la fois très mauvais et très spécial et, quand on y pense, c’est amusant. (05/01/2022)

Avez-vous déjà vu un camion de quinze tonnes (très discrètement :-)) s'approcher derrière sa future victime humaine ? Eh bien, vous avez maintenant une occasion unique. Une farce à usage unique, plutôt amusante et drôle, accompagnée de la musique d'AC/DC. (27/06/2011)

Stephen King was given the opportunity to film his own short story, Maximum Overdrive... And he went about it with obvious enthusiasm. While in the book only cars came to life, here, as the master himself said, everything from a lawnmower to a soda machine could come to life (a stunning scene, by the way). The result is an extremely wacky, morbidly black-humored mechanical variation on Hitchcock's The Birds, in which anything is possible and in which something happens from beginning to end. That "something" is also very King-like. Those who are familiar with the master's literary style will be delighted by his typical spectacular, almost apocalyptic moments, such as the opening sequence on the bridge (falling cars, flying melons...) or the little boy's ride through the town where everyone is dead. The soundtrack was also provided by AC/DC, so there's not much to talk about in that regard... I feel like giving a fifth star for the cameo appearance of the director/screenwriter/author. (08/07/2012)