Maximum Overdrive
Imagine your worst nightmare...machines take over the world!
Film19861h 38m
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- Director
- Stephen King
- Language
- English
- Released
- 1986-07-13
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
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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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