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Maximum Overdrive (1986) More at IMDbPro »

• During the scene with the ferry bridge, a van can be seen with the AC/DC band's logo. AC/DC performed the soundtrack for the movie.
  
  
• The head on the main truck is based on that of Marvel Comics' Green Goblin.
  
  
• Director Cameo: [Stephen King] man at whom the ATM swears.
  
  
• The "Dixie Boy" truck stop was a set constructed 10 miles outside of Wilmington, North Carolina. It was convincing enough that several truckers tried to stop in, and eventually the producers had to put announcements in local papers saying that the "Dixie Boy" was just a movie set.
  
  
• The Dixie Boy Truck Stop was indeed a real Truck Stop in Columbus County, North Carolina. The Truck Stop was torn down in the late-1980s
  
  
• An accident occurred on 31 July 1985 during shooting in a suburb of Wilmington, North Carolina where a radio-controlled lawnmower used in a scene went out of control and struck a block of wood used as a camera support, shooting out wood splinters which injured the director of photography Armando Nannuzzi; as a result, he lost an eye. Nannuzzi sued Stephen King on February 18, 1987 for $18 million in damages. The suit was settled out of court.
  
  
• If you listen closely you can hear the ice cream truck's tune is "King of the Road".
  
  
• While shooting the scene where the steamroller rampages across the baseball diamond, Stephen King requested that the SFX department place a bag of fake blood near the dummy of a young player who would be run over by it. The desired effect would be that a smear of blood would appear on the steamroller and be re-smeared on the grass over and over, like a printing press. While filming the scene, however, the bag of blood exploded too soon and sprayed everywhere, making it appear as if the boy's head had also exploded. King was thrilled with the results, but censors demanded the shot be cut.
  
  
• AC/DC was selected to make the music for the movie by Stephen King himself.
  
  
• The trailer for this film used the John Carpenter/Alan Howarth score from Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982).
  
  
• While filming the scene where the ice cream truck flips over the stunt didn't go according to plan. A telephone-pole size beam of wood was placed inside so it would flip end over end but it only flipped once and slid on its roof, right into the camera. Gene Poole, dolly grip on the film, pulled the cameraman out of the way at the last second.
  
  
• The Happy Toyz truck is a 1981 Western Star 4800 (supposedly).
  
  
• In the movie trailer, Stephen King said he decided to direct the film himself after writing several because he wanted to see Stephen King done right. "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself."
  
  
• When all the chaos has started, there is a scene of some people on a boat. These are actually members of AC/DC.
  
  
• In the game room of DIXIE BOY truck stop, they had a Bally Night Rider pinball game, and a Williams Pokerino (also had a few video games: A Cinematronics Star Castle, Atari Tempest Cocktail and a Konami Time Pilot '84 in a Stern cabinet). Fairly early on in the movie, the Night Rider playfield glass smashes itself, and very late in the movie, for a split second, you can see the games being plowed into by a semi truck.
  
  
• Camp and Curtis' cars never becomes sentient. Possibly because occupied vehicles won't.
  
  
• Stephen King later admitted that he was "coked out of my mind" the entire time he was making this picture and didn't know what he was doing. He remarked that he'd like to try directing again someday, this time sober.
  
  

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