9 Authors Who Made Terrible Films Of Their Own Books
2. Stephen King - Maximum Overdrive
Maximum Overdrive had a famously cheesy trailer, where Stephen King himself spoke to the audience, promising he was ...gonna scare the hell out of you! and that if somebody had to make a film of his work, he was the best man for the job. Big talk, considering directors like Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg, and John Carpenter had adapted his work by that point. King failed in his mission to scare anybody with the film, creating was a campy mess filled with unlikable characters and jarring tonal shifts. He was clearly going for a fun b-movie vibe, and it has occasional highlights like shockingly gory deaths one word: steamroller and the memorable main villain was a truck with the face of Spider-Man villain The Green Goblin. Maximum Overdrive is mostly a real chore to sit through though; sober, at least. King claims he was coked out of his head making it, which might explain how daffy it turned out, and he feels its one of the worst movies made of his work.
