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Maximum Overdrive (1986) - (Movie Clip) Short Circuit, Maybe

We've seen a drawbridge malfunction and more troubles emerging, at a truck stop on the North Carolina coast, Emilio Estevez the cook, Pat Hingle the boss and Ellen McElduff the unfortunate waitress, Stephen King writing and directing, in Maximum Overdrive, 1986.

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Maximum Overdrive (1986) -- (Movie Clip) You Low Down Scumball!
Rebellious machines have squirted diesel in the face of mechanic and concerned father Duncan (J.C. Quinn), cook Bill (Emilio Estevez) urging caution, Pat Hingle their creep boss and Chris Murney a bible salesman guarding his Cadillac, in Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive, 1986.
Maximum Overdrive (1986) -- (Movie Clip) On June 19th, 1987
Stephen King is writer and, for the only time in his career, director, executing his cameo in this opening sequence, shot economically in Wilmington, NC, in the unsuccessful exploitation of King's short story Trucks, Maximum Overdrive, 1986, starring Emilio Estevez and Pat Hingle.

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