[post_page_title]Maximum Overdrive[/post_page_title]
Author Stephen King made his directorial debut with Maximum Overdrive. During the making of the film, King believed that the best way to get believable performances from the actors was to actually scare them.
In a scene where a lawn mower is running out of control, King insisted on using a real lawn mower with the blades inside, even though the actors asked him not to. It was controlled with a remote so it couldn’t do any real damage, but the actors ran from it in true terror.
