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{{quote|"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself." |'''[[Stephen King]]''' in the trailer.}}
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The movie centers around people trapped in a truck stop, surrounded by homicidal trucks and other vehicles who have gained sentience from radiation produced by a comet close to earth.
Yeah, it's one of those [[So Bad It's Good]] films, but at least the whole soundtrack is made of [[ACDC
Later King claimed that he was [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]
* [[America Saves the Day]]: Inverted as in the end it is a Soviet "weather satellite" which destroys the UFO hiding in the comet causing all the trouble.
* [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]]: Trucks, household appliances, you name it.
* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: Surprisingly the best example ever being Connie and Curtis. YMMV on Connie's [[The Scrappy|scrappy]] status aside, they spat almost every chance they get, but when the chips are down they really do care about one and other. Much of her words are more out of worry her husband may die. The best part being when Curt plans on rescuing the bible salesman, after an argument they kiss before he heads off. Connies words being the best example of the trope.
{{quote| '''Connie''': Don't you make me a widow on my wedding day.}}
* [[Bad Humor Truck]]: One of the vehicles.
* [[Big Brother Instinct|Big Brother and Sister Instinct]]: When Duncan gets run down, the only two showing concern for Deke is Billy and Brett. Especially when [[Brutal Honesty|Bubba harshly breaks the news of his father's death.]] Bill tries to comfort a grieving Deke, whilst Brett slaps Bubba in the face for his insensitivity.
{{quote|'''Brett:''' Just a little lesson in manners from the [[Ironic Echo|Road Twitch.]]}}
* [[Bond One-Liner]]:
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'''Bubba''': "That one's deported for sure!" }}
* [[Car Meets House]]
* [[Closed Circle]]: the truck stop
* [[Cool Mask]]: The [[Spider
* [[Creator Cameo]]: That was King at the ATM machine in the opening sequence.
* [[Death
* [[Everyone Knows Morse]]: When the military vehicle starts honking its horn, Deke recognizes that it's using morse code.
* [[Eye Scream]]: Duncan gets an eyeful of gasoline.
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* [[Groin Attack]]: One soda machine does this.
* [[Homicide Machines]]: The vending machine scene is one of the [[Groin Attack|most memorable]] instances of this.
* [[How Many Fingers?]]: Said to Duncan after he got gasoline into his eyes.
* [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It]]: As with the other Stephen King filmations.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted in the steamroller scene and played straight on Deke.
* [[Marionette Master]]: Stephen King [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/MaximumOverdrivePoster.jpg on one of the posters].
* [[More Dakka]]: Hendershot's gun collection in the truck stop's basement and at one point trucks call an armed military vehicle for assistance.
* [[Not So Above It All]]: The Bible Salesman. When Brett threatens to chop his hand off for feeling her up, he makes a remark about how he's [[Gosh Dang It to Heck|never heard women swearing when he was a boy.]] The second one of the Trucks mows down his car, the first words to come out of his mouth are [[Precision F-Strike|"COCKSUCKER!!!"]]. [[Up to Eleven|And it escalates from there]], till the Green Goblin Truck gets him.
* [[Plug N Play Technology]]: Kind of a weird partial example. There's no actual interfacing of differing technologies per se, but the weird alien radiation which animates the Earth's gadgets does endow those gadgets with some unexpected abilities -- such as the ability to see/sense humans, or to move independently even with no built-in means of locomotion. In the short story, at least, the "alien ray" was supernatural.
* [[Psycho Strings]]: A guitar variation of it plays whenever a machine attacks.
* [[Recycled in Space]]: ''Maximum Overdrive'' is [[Night of the Living Dead
* [[The Scourge of God]]: the creepy, lecherous Bible salesman.
* [[Sentient Vehicle]]
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