Maximum Overdrive

  • Theatrical - Wide 1986-07-25
Box Office Gross: $7,400,000
Running Time: 98 minutes
Language: English
Production Company: DEG
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8/10

Synopsis

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... See more set out to defeat the killer machines…Or be killed by them.

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