I just realized that “Maximum Overdrive” and Zack Snyder’s version of “Dawn of the Dead” have essentially the same ending. I like to imagine that the guys from “Dawn” pull up on the island to find an aging Emilio Estevez asking them if the trucks have stopped killing people yet.
“The good news is that the trucks are no longer killing people. The bad news is that all the dead people ARE.”
Speaking of Stephen King adaptations: know how I like to gush about Frank Darabont being a genius? Well I just learned that he once wrote “Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.” That movie pushed the “quick, let’s all go to sleep and end up in the same dream” plot gimmick to the limit, included Freddy Kruger with a Nintendo PowerGlove, and included the phrase “put on your 3-D glasses now.”
Frank Darabont has made three pretty dang good Stephen King movies, but he’s still got some atonement to do for Freddy 3.