Name your favorite killing machine in the movie, 'Maximum Overdrive'
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vpzsnascol — 12 years ago(March 05, 2014 09:38 PM)
My favorites are the obvious Happy Toyz truck, the plane that took out the school bus kids, the My-T Tas-T truck (because it plays 'King of the Road' by Roger Miller) and the bull dozer because it laughs while it crushes the car.
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Gentleman_Caller — 11 years ago(May 16, 2014 03:03 AM)
Thank you for all of the comments people! 3 years and this question still remains strong, awesome!
@techbox14: Talk about the biggest far fetch kill of the movie, the walkman lol. I almost forgot about that kill, maybe somehow it gave the person a heart attack where he sat.. maybe. It's as far fetch as the toy cop car choking the dog, or the nosedive plane in the school bus. A nosedive is possible but it wouldn't look that perfect.
@captainamerica-5: Exactly, I keep forgetting how eerie the start-up to the tow truck actually was (never growing up around trucks). You needed a good sound like that to make a movie eerie back then, pre-computers and CGI. come to think of it, I don't know any other movie that has a more eerie start-up sound than this.
@Traianus: I agree, The Green Goblin face on the Happy Toyz truck was a genius move on someones part. Sadly, being a huge Spider-Man fan for years, when I first saw this movie I never put the two and two together when I was a kid. Lol I just thought, Marvel.. horror movie, never connected the dots. Of course I got it years later ha. The Blade movies is the only time those two genres of movies have crossed paths. And like practically all Marvel movies, not one character from the comics resembles their comic counterpart entirely.
@Supremer68: I would love to see the exact filming location of the gas station. Sadly I'm all the way in California, but I have been to the big cities and some filming locations here on the west. There's a website, 'Seeing-Stars.com' that is full of movie and television locations, and what they look like now. It's a fun website to check out if ever curious.
@Woodyanders: The settings in the movie were used quite well with each antagonist machine. The ice cream truck and lawnmower in the pedestrian streets. The tow truck at the tow yard. The high speed truck dueling it out on the freeway. The vending machine and steamroller were brilliant to see at the baseball field. I still wish we could've seen the full version of the steamroller kill, if it hadn't got cut by the MPAA.
@vpzsnazcol: That's awesome to know about the ice cream truck music, I didn't know it was an actual song. I just figured it to be another ice cream tune of old lol. And I did forget about the bull dozer laugh/chuckle. I can't quite place where I heard a similar laugh from but it sounds reminiscent of something else. Maybe one of the Klowns chuckling in "Killer Klowns from Outer Space". They had some low growl-ness
@the_burning89: The machine gun and Happy Toys truck are by far the two most impressionable killer vehicles at the gas station. For being opposites, they held the most command over the survivors and other vehicles.
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DevastationBob-3 — 11 years ago(May 17, 2014 09:35 PM)
The walkman, the only thing I can think of is that it electrocuted the wearer.
The hairdryer, I have no idea how that hairdryer wrapped it's cord around that girl's neck and killed her. Maybe that was an unrelated death, but it scared the kid anyway.
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Paella747 — 11 years ago(October 19, 2014 06:20 AM)
When I saw this post, I immediately thought about the walkman!
But if I remember correctly, didn't the headphones just swing down and cut his throat? As a kid, I remember discussing how 'impossible' that would be, since the headphones weren't motorized (as if the rest of the movie was plausible).
I haven't seen this film in years, but I'm almost positive that the headphones on the walkman just swung down and sliced everybody's throats (wasn't there a girl sitting on the patio who met the same fate as well? Or hanging out a window?). They didn't show it happening, just the aftermath.
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DevastationBob-3 — 11 years ago(October 20, 2014 05:26 AM)
The girl hanging out the window had a hairdryer cord wrapped around her neck which raises the same questions as how the walkman killed people. Maybe it electrocuted them and the blood came out of their ears and down their necks making it look like a throat slicing?
That movie is so damn goofy, I love it.
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drunkbear — 10 years ago(February 11, 2016 12:22 PM)
- The Red Autocar, mainly because I love Autocars of that era.
- The rusty, banged-up tow truck. If that sucker doesn't kill you, it'll probably give you tetanus.
- The lawnmower. The mental image of it rampaging through the neighborhood is hilarious, to me.
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