It's not a remake of Maximum Overdrive, it's an unmake - what that film should have been.
Trucks is based pretty closely on the short story, which is one of King's best in his Nightshift collection.
The action is constant. It never lets up. And for a TV movie, there seems a lot of explosions, or budget in other words. Apart from The Car (1977), or Killdozer (1974), it's a unique movie - well, trinique - being the only films of vehicular possession that I recall. Woops I forgot Christine (1983). Quadnique.
A few times it snaps reality, when, I think, adding ideas King maybe didn't.
It was a relief and pleasure seeing the ideas King developed faithfully appear as the movie progressed, making me remember the story I read ages ago. The acting, especially at-times-terror-stricken Timothy Busfield, and character, is de-fine.
And about the people who can't believe it, or the intriguing and various hard trying attempts at explanation, which added more fun, depth, and reality to the black magic of the story, I think of what Stephen King said when he heard of people who can't believe in these stories:
I feel a kind of sadness.
Now if they just unmake The Mangler in the same way, which was the best story in that book...
Trucks is based pretty closely on the short story, which is one of King's best in his Nightshift collection.
The action is constant. It never lets up. And for a TV movie, there seems a lot of explosions, or budget in other words. Apart from The Car (1977), or Killdozer (1974), it's a unique movie - well, trinique - being the only films of vehicular possession that I recall. Woops I forgot Christine (1983). Quadnique.
A few times it snaps reality, when, I think, adding ideas King maybe didn't.
It was a relief and pleasure seeing the ideas King developed faithfully appear as the movie progressed, making me remember the story I read ages ago. The acting, especially at-times-terror-stricken Timothy Busfield, and character, is de-fine.
And about the people who can't believe it, or the intriguing and various hard trying attempts at explanation, which added more fun, depth, and reality to the black magic of the story, I think of what Stephen King said when he heard of people who can't believe in these stories:
I feel a kind of sadness.
Now if they just unmake The Mangler in the same way, which was the best story in that book...