Trucks

1997

Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 29% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 3.9/10 10 4108 4.1K

man vs machine truck based on short story

Plot summary

A group of seemingly humanistic trucks takeover a truck stop and starts killing everything in sight. The remaining townsfolk must band together and come up with a way to murder the inanimate objects, a seemingly difficult task considering the abnormal circumstances.

Director

Chris Thomson Photo
Chris Thomson

Top cast

Timothy Busfield Photo
Timothy Busfield as Ray
Rick Skene Photo
Rick Skene as Trucker Pete
Brendan Fletcher Photo
Brendan Fletcher as Logan
Terence Kelly Photo
Terence Kelly as ill-fated Mailman
480p.BluRay
838.68 MB
720*480
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
N/A
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by williamj-2 4 / 10

Pointless remake which contains funniest movie death ever!

Why bother re-making 'Maximum Overdrive'? This is just another of the universe's imponderables, but stick with this movie, your patience will be rewarded with what must be the funniest movie death ever: a gormless mailman is battered to death by a Tonka toy, and the gore sprays like raspberry jam from a doughnut. In the cast is the marvellous Brendan Fletcher, one of the finest actors of his generation, and again the question recurs:WHY WHY WHY?
Reviewed by bababear 3 / 10

A Remake with a Purpose

TRUCKS was made just over a decade after MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE. Now, most remakes seem pointless. But this is an exception. It definitely has a purpose.It reminds us just how much nasty fun MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE was.This was made with a small budget, so the special effects consist primarily of huge trucks driving in circles and honking their horns.The original film had so many nifty touches. Writer/Director Stephen King had a great cameo as a bewildered bank customer confronted with a foul mouthed ATM. A Little League team was attacked by a bulldozer and the Soda Machine of Death. People at home and at work were attacked by electric knives, hairdryers, lawnmowers and Walkmen. There was that great scene of a boy riding his bike down a suburban street: as he progresses along the street, sprinklers come on in the yards as if some unseen force was following him. There was that hard rocking musical score by AC/DC. Capping this off was the 'chief' truck with its Green Goblin emblem.This is just dull and flat. Every once in a while one of the actors comes out of a stupor, gets up from a chair and walks out the door to be killed.No reason is given for the attacks. We have mention of Area 51, aliens, toxic gas and a meteor shower.And the ending is a cheat. The four surviving characters are picked up by a helicopter, which turns out to be pilot-less as it has been possessed by whatever force infected the trucks. Gotta leave a door open for a sequel, I guess.More inexplicably, some very good actors are stuck in this. Hey, they have to eat. And they got a trip to Canada.Skip this. Go rent MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE.
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