10 Embarrassingly Poor Horror Movie Monsters

What’s that speeding towards us? Is it... a heavy-handed metaphor for the perils of technology? It’s worse than that: It’s Maximum Overdrive, a truly cringeworthy movie in which all man-made technology is mysteriously possessed by the urge to turn on its creators.

Stephen King's only directorial effort, which even he considers a 'moron movie' that he made while out of his mind on cocaine, Maximum Overdrive is universally considered an utter, irredeemable embarrassment.

Like a child's sketch of Stephen Spielberg's debut movie Duel, the film features extended chase scenes involving overbearing haulage vehicles. Unlike Duel, though, the lead villain in Maximum Overdrive is a truck wearing a Green Goblin mask. Really.

But it's not just trucks. The terrifying range of evil automatons that wage war on mankind includes rogue chainsaws, murderous arcade games, bloodthirsty hairdryers, and homicidal vending machines.

This movie was cheated out of two 1987 Golden Raspberry awards (Worst Director for King and Worst Actor for star Emilio Estevez) by Prince's flop musical Under the Cherry Moon. It's a shame - Maximum Overdrive deserves those Raspberries more.

Though many adaptations of Stephen King's novels are without a doubt among the best horror films in existence, we should not forget that he is also capable of producing ludicrous Marenghi-esque tripe like this.

Avoid.