Maximum Chaos: Forty Years of Stephen King’s ‘Maximum Overdrive’Courtesy of De Laurentiis Entertainment GroupLet me take you back to 1986. Maximum Overdrive grossed around seven million worldwide…far short of its rough budget of ten million. Head on over to Letterboxd, and you’ll find Maximum Overdrive with a measly average rating of just 2.5. He felt their logo captured the essence of Maximum Overdrive, that over-the-top, larger-than-life sensibility that the mechanical tale exaggerates tenfold. What I can say for sure is that Maximum Overdrive is maximum King.