Maximum Overdrive
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Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 film directed by Stephen King. It used a screenplay inspired by (but not based on) King's short story "Trucks" from his collection of short stories Night Shift. King also wrote the screen adaptation of this film, shot in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1986. It was his first and (if the film's critical and commercial reception is anything to go by) presumably last attempt at directing a movie.
The film is about machines spontaneously becoming sentient and attempting to enslave the human race, as delivery trucks become homicidal machines that lock patrons inside a diner, desperate to escape. Maximum Overdrive stars Emilio Estevez, with Yeardley Smith, later to become the voice of Lisa Simpson in the animated cartoon series The Simpsons (the film was spoofed with a Simpsons episode named "Maximum Homerdrive"). The film also co-stars Pat Hingle as a nasty boss, Giancarlo Esposito in a small role as an ill-fated video game player and a cameo appearance of a screaming Marla Maples (pre-Donald Trump) getting hit with a watermelon.
The AC/DC album Who Made Who was released as the soundtrack to the film.
Plot holes
The plot of the movie is that all machines have become sentient, including an electric knife. But the main several cars don't seem to be affected. The only car shown that seemed to be "alive" was a VW Beetle that killed its driver, the pizza delivery man.
It is revealed that a Soviet "weather" satellite destroyed a UFO with powerful laser cannon and Class IV nuclear weapons as the movie ended.