15 Most Unlikely Horror Movie Villains

Speaking of Stephen King, the horror writer does seem to have a fixation with inanimate objects turning into killing machines. There’s the blood-hungry laundry press we’ve just mentioned, mobile phones in Cell and a killer classic car in Christine.

Adapted from one of King’s own short stories and his only directorial effort to date, Maximum Overdrive takes the inanimate object gone wild idea to the extreme with any and all manner of usually innocuous gadgets and machines going haywire and butchering people left, right and centre.

Any and all isn’t an exaggeration either. We see a Little Leaguer mowed down and flattened by an errant steamroller, a man killed by his own Walkman and a woman slain by a hairdryer alongside killer vending machines, remote-controlled cars, arcade games and a semi-sentient squad of trucks trying to kill Maximum Overdrive’s star Emilio Estevez.

To his credit, King later admitted that he was off his t*ts on cocaine throughout most of the production and had no idea what he was doing. Explains a lot really.