Maximum Overdrive has entered movie legend as one of the worst films ever made. The 1986 science fiction, horror and comedy film imagined a world in which inanimate objects, including bulldozers, chainsaws and electric hairdryers, came to life and started massacring people. Even Stephen King, the bestselling author who wrote and directed the film, described it as a “moron movie”.
But real life came tragically close to imitating fiction during the filming of Maximum Overdrive
when a radio-controlled lawnmower ran into the set and badly wounded the director of photography, who lost an eye. He sued Mr King and 17 others for $18m for unsafe working practices before eventually settling out of court.