
Get behind the wheel of one wild ride when the Vestron Video Collector’s Series releases Stephen King‘s Maximum Overdrive on limited edition Blu-ray on October 23 from Lionsgate.
You can read more about the movie and check out a list of all of the Blu-ray’s special features, as well as the release’s bad-ass cover art and an original theatrical trailer, below!
Written for the screen and directed by King, 1986’s Maximum Overdrive is the ultimate battle of man vs. malevolent machine. A mysterious comet’s magnetic field cause all the machines on Earth to come to life and terrorize their human creators in a horrific killing spree. Now, it’s up to a small group of people trapped in a desolate truck stop to defeat the killer machines “” or be slaughtered by them!
Available on Blu-ray for the first time in the U.S., the Vestron Video Collector’s Series release is loaded with all-new special features, including interviews with producer Martha De Laurentiis and special make-up effects creator Dean Gates; on set vintage interviews with Stephen King and stars Emilio Estevez and Laura Harrington; behind the scenes footage; and more!
Special Features
- Commentary by author Tony Magistrale
- Commentary by Jonah Ray and Blumhouse’s Ryan Turek
- Truck Stop Tales with Martha De Laurentiis
- Rage Against the Machines with Laura Harrington
- Honeymoon Horrors with John Short and Yeardley Smith
- Maximum Carnage with make-up effects creator Dean Gates
- Who Made Who? with AC/DC expert Murray Engleheart
- The Wilmington Factor with Members of the North Carolina crew
- Goblin Resurrectus – The restoration of the Happy Toyz Goblin
- A Kid in King’s Court with Holter Graham
- Behind-the-scenes footage
- Still gallery
- Theatrical trailer
- TV spots
You can pre-order your copy of Stephen King’s cult classic Maximum Overdrive today over at Amazon.
Cover Art

Trailer
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