The list of novelists turned great film directors is not long — in fact, as much as I love the spectacle of Norman Mailer chewing on Rip Torn's ear and Torn going after Mailer with a hammer in ...

Maximum Overdrive just hit Netflix. It’s Stephen King’s rowdy 1986 take on his short story Trucks, and still the only movie ...

A still from the 1986 cult classic horror film Maximum Overdrive. The film was one of the first major movies shot on location in Wilmington, North Carolina and is considered one of the pioneering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film's director even agreed. According to Louder, King admitted that he had no idea how to direct a film. He also said he ...

Brian Taggert took on writing duties on the adaptation, which aims to tell the story of a small town in Nevada overrun by homicidal semi-trucks. Of those who actually checked out the film, most were ...

Stephen King is an author who needs no introduction. His horror and thriller novels, including "IT," "Misery," and "The Shining," are not only beloved classics, but they have also made for some ...

Let me take you back to 1986. Then, with dead serious eyes, King raises his finger, points at you, and declares, “I’m going to scare the hell out of you. And that’s a promise.” But, like King in that ...

Stephen Kinghas been crowned the King of Horror after half a century of brilliant books, and Amazon Prime Video carries a bunch of the author's movies. Not long after King broke onto the scene with ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — This week’s Throwback Thursday revisits a pivotal moment in Wilmington’s film history, when Hollywood crews arrived in the Cape Fear to begin work on what would become one of ...

Having watched my third Stephen King adaptation in the span of three months (The Life of Chuck, The Long Walk, and The Running Man, all of which were really good, by the way), I figured it was time to ...

In July 1986, Stephen King unleashed Maximum Overdrive, the only film he ever directed. Starring Emilio Estevez and fueled by an all-AC/DC soundtrack, the cult horror favorite has become an enduring ...