# Brivido (1986)

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**Original title**: *Maximum Overdrive*
**Runtime**: 98 min
**Genres**: Horror, Action, Science Fiction, Comedy
**Directed by**: Stephen King
**Written by**: Stephen King
**Starring**: Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Yeardley Smith, John Short, Ellen McElduff

> *Imagine your worst nightmare...machines take over the world!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Desert truck stop at dusk a lone semi idles. 
Machines terrorize a group of people. 
Stephen King directs this 80s horror comedy.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, unhinged

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