Snark, Critic and Pop!

The subject of “Bad Movie Night” this week was 1986′s Maximum Overdrive, written and directed by famed horror author Stephen King. This happened to be King’s first and only directorial effort, and it is bad. As in barely watchable bad, not the typical gloriously wonderful bad.

The plot involves machines coming to life to kill their human masters as the Earth passes through a rare comet, not “Haley’s Comet” but another one. The film is noteworthy for featuring Emilio Estevez and future voice of Lisa Simpson Yeardley Smith in her most annoying, nagging on-screen role to date.  I can’t bring myself to do a full review, but I was greatly amused by notes from Imdb.com’s trivia page, which says: (continue reading…)