10 Unintentionally Hilarious Horror Movie Monsters
6. The Green Goblin Truck - Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Beloved horror auteur Stephen King is a mastermind who can take mundane things and make them terrifying. However, his ability to turn the everyday into a nightmare only works about half of the time, and the times it doesn't often leave you cackling with laughter. Try to guess which of those categories this movie falls under.
Maximum Overdrive, which King directed himself, is a survival story about a group of strangers hounded by a collection of homicidal vehicles. It's a concept King has made work before with titles like Christine, but that terrifying car is nowhere to be seen here. Instead, you get a truck with the Green Goblin's face on it. What?
Yes, the main antagonist of this movie is a giant truck with a comic-book villain plastered on its grill. It looks like cheap plastic and has all the intimidation factor of a teenage cosplayer dressing up as the iconic Norman Osborn.
The film itself is a joke, with no fear factor anywhere to be found. The truck could maybe freak you out, but that goofy laughing goblin face is just too funny-looking to do so.