From coke machine gun sequences to minute-long post sequences, the possibility that Maximum Overdrive is the real origin of Skynet and the Transformers – and possibly one of the greatest, deepest films of all time. Given Stephen King’s drug problem at the time, it should have been called Maximum Overdose.

Subscribe to JaysAnalysis in the Purchase Membership section to access the archives of videos and interviews and lectures or purchase my books in the Shop!