Who doesn't love Maximum Overdrive? This Reagan-era clot of cocaine-driven shit squirted out by Stephen King himself, from his terrible adaptation of an awesome original short story, was a big favorite of mine back in the '80s. I loved every bit of it, from the AC/DC soundtrack to the slow motion shot of watermelons tumbling over an extension bridge, to the dead dog with the remote control car jammed in its mouth, just made sense to the kid I was back then. I even bought a copy on Beta.
Overdrive, of course, was set in the Dixie Boy Truckstop, built somewhere outside of Wilmington, North Carolina, for movie. After it was partially torn down, some locals fixed it up and turned it into a real working truckstop, and even though it went bankrupt in a few years, there are supposedly still some road signs for the Dixie Boy along the local interstate.
We're headed down that way tonight for a vacation. To South Carolina, actually, but I'll be the one doing the driving through the middle of the night, and who knows, I might just get turned around enough to find my way down Highway 74/76 in search of the old Dixie Boy -- and whatever's lurking there.
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