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33), achieves something like a career nadir with this borderline-incoherent take on King’s 2000 novella, in which a death-obsessed Maine art student (Jonathan Jackson) sets out to visit his mother (Barbara Hershey) in the hospital on Halloween 1969, and hitches a ride with a malevolent driver (David Arquette). Mick Garris, the man behind many subpar TV-movie King adaptations (as well as Sleepwalkers see No. Watch the original trailer for ‘Maximum Overdrive’ featuring Stephen King: What follows is silliness of a purely campy order, driven by AC/DC’s hard-rock riffage, and marked by ludicrous thriller sequences that border on self-parody. On screen, Emilio Estevez leads a band of humans battling a fleet of big-rig trucks that, like the rest of Earth’s machines, are brought to murderous life by a passing comet. It didn’t help that at the time, as King told interviewer Tony Magistrale in 2003, his drug use was an ongoing problem.
Superior to King’s 1973 short story “Trucks” (which isn’t saying much), the film is notorious as the author’s first - and last - attempt at directing. Centered on an industrial laundry press machine possessed by a demon, the film lurches to and fro with a gracelessness made all the more egregious by the sheer silliness of its premise - complete with an embarrassing exorcism to halt the mechanical murderer.
This mishmash of King clichés is all the more dispiriting given the peerless horror pedigree of its director, the late Tobe Hooper ( The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), and costars Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger in many movie Nightmares) and Ted Levine ( The Silence of the Lambs’ Buffalo Bill). Here is our updated countdown of the memorably malevolent and macabre movies, from worst to first. With the arrival of It in theaters this week, we revisited and revised our ranking of his cinematic library, originally published in 2016, and added the most recent theatrical installments, It included. After 40-plus years of cranking out books, we’ve tallied 42 feature films drawn from his tales of terror, suspense, mystery, and drama (excluding sequels and many, many, often lousy made-for-TV movies). Pennywise surfaces in It (Photo: Warner Bros.)įew authors have seen their work adapted for the screen as often as master of horror Stephen King.
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