"The Maximum Excessive" of 1986 was the first film directed by Steven King. Also, to date, the last. He was notorious omitted by critics and dismissed by fans. This must be a blow to King's ego, as most of the films and TV -emissions based on his work, to that point, was mostly hits. The world has already seen "Kerry", "Glitter", "Kujo", "Dead Zone", "Christine", "Krypshow" and "The Cat's Eye". King's own "maximum exaggeration" was the author's first legitimate bomb.

The film was based on King's royal story in 1978 "Trucks", for a truck remote station that was attacked by a seemingly sensitive, murderous semifinal. The film had a lot of AC/DC on the soundtrack and starred at the time-Emilio Estevez. The most significant antagonist was a truck for delivery of toys with a huge goblin face on her front. As mentioned, critics loose their energy and nonsense images, and the film continued to be nominated for more considerations. Decades later, she just got dragging as a cult unusual and was still discussing podcasts with bad films like "How did this do?" This was the same podcast that engaged in films like "Birdemic: Shock and Terror", "From Justinatin to Kelly" and "Apple".

Indeed, "How did this do?" Podcast will occasionally make a deep diving in certain notorious films, contacting directors to find out, well, exactly how something was done. /Film previously covered oral history At "maximum excessive", and interesting details came to light. It seems that the "maximum exaggeration" was originally intended to be a segment of Steven King's anthology film, called "Machines", which will also include short translations of "man on the lawn" and "Mangler".

The story is said to have an ambitious producer named Milton Subsky bought the film rights of multiple stories in King's short stories anthology in 1978 "Night Change". That volume of gloriously housed "trucks", "man on the lawn" and "Mangler", But also "children of corn", "Bugiman", "Lot of Jerusalem" and "Sometimes Return". Adaptations to a large screen of two of the stories "Night shift" - "Quitters, Inc." And the "Weed" - were included in the anti -eye film "The Cat's Eye".

It should be noted that King hated Subtoski, because the producer once said that horror stories should have happy endings, the sentimental king fiercely disagrees. Roberto Kroki, who served as a translator of the Italian "maximum exaggerated", remembers the early stages of production and how Subtoski wanted to make an anthology in the form of a "cat". It was even written when the project collapsed due to lack of funding. In the words of Crooki:

"(W) Ith" Trucks " - not unlike the floor of the floor, which was an anthology of three unrelated royal stories - the plan was to pack this with the" man on the lawn "and" mangler "to create a compilation called" Machines ".

Subsky ended with the sale of "Truck" rights to Starwell producer Dino de Laurentis because he needed money to pay for an unrelated lawsuit. The idea of ​​anthology collapsed.

The term unification of the "maximum excessive", "man on the lawn" and "Mangler" is quite absurd, if you are familiar with what happened to the "Man of the Lag" and "Mangler" adaptations in the 1990s.

The "man on the lawn" is a strange duck for himself. We should immediately recall that Brett Leonard's film adaptation in 1992 on Steven King's "Man on the Lag" was adapted only in the name. King's short story in 1975 "The Man on the Lag" was for a mysterious gardener hired to use the protagonist's lawn. The gardener, however, seems to work with the lawn and wants to be fungically eating the grass clippings while naked. In the end, it is revealed that the gardener is satir and uses the lawn to make sacrifices of the great god pan. The satir runs after the protagonist with a lawnmower, and pieces of it fly in his birds.

Leonard's film, in strict contrast, is for a brain scientist (Pierce Brosnan) who uses high drugs and mysterious new virtual reality technologies to improve the brain of a local gardener named Jobobe (Effe Fahi). Joboo ends becoming a crazy psychic genius and aims to inject his consciousness into the world computers. "The man on the lawn" was also covered by "How did this do?" Was so bad, Steven King sued him - successfully - to remove his name.

Mangler, meanwhile, was tailored to its own film in 1995 by director Tobe Hawper. The story took place in a parallel version of the 1940s, and focused on an industrial laundry owned by a demon. The owner of Mangler, played by Robert Englund, allowed his employees to occasionally be intertwined and killed by the machine as a form of human sacrifice. The film is very, very strange and climax when the truck -sized mangler comes to life and begins to chase Ted Levin through the factory.

The thought that three films of extremely carters like "Maximum Excessive", "The Man of the Lag" and "Mangler" once united in a movie is tantalizing to say at least. Well, tantalizing those who like cinema rubbish.

For everyone else, it may have been the worst adaptation of the king ever. And "Dreamcatcher" still exists.