MAN-MADE MONSTERS #17: Christine (1983) & Maximum Overdrive (1986)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 102 minutes
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It's killer automobile week! Jamie Graham joins Mike to discuss two 80s Stephen King adaptations...the brilliant Christine (1983) and the terrible Maximum Overdrive (1986)!
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| 0:00.0 | During the 1980s, when Stephen King was at the height of his powers, two films were adapted from his stories based on a fear King had had since childhood, killer automobiles. |
| 0:33.9 | The first, Christine, was a slickly directed and stylish teen horror by John Carpenter, which |
| 0:40.2 | has grown in reputation over the last 40 years and is now considered one of the great King |
| 0:45.5 | adaptations of the 80s. The other was Maximum Overdrive, a film King himself directed. It was |
| 0:53.9 | slated by critics, hated by audiences, |
| 0:56.9 | and even King himself would go on to describe it as a moron movie. After making maximum overdrive, |
| 1:03.8 | Stephen King never directed again. Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of man-made monsters, and we discuss two Stephen |
| 1:14.9 | King adaptations, Christine, and Maximum Overdrive. |
| 1:25.6 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. |
| 1:27.8 | My name is Mike Munser, and as ever, I am your host. |
| 1:30.5 | In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre, one subgenre at a time. |
| 1:36.7 | We are currently in the middle of our 11th season exploring the evolution of man-made monsters. |
| 1:42.6 | And this is part 17. In this week's episode, as that intro suggested, |
| 1:47.1 | we're going to be looking at two very fun Stephen King adaptations from the 80s. We've got Christine from |
| 1:52.3 | 1983 and Maximum Overdrive from 1986. Both of these discussions will be spoilerific. I mean, |
| 1:59.6 | definitely check out Christine. I'll leave it up to you as to whether or not you want to check out maximum overdrive before listening to our discussion. Joining me to discuss these films, well, a long-time friend of the pod. He was here last series discussing Wake in Fright with me. And he's back. A big welcome to Jamie Jamie Graham. Hello Jamie. Hello, Mike. How |
| 2:18.7 | you doing? I'm good. Thank you, mate. How are you? I'm very well apart from I've broken my ankle, |
| 2:24.3 | but we won't go into that. We won't bore your... I was just hearing the story before we started |
| 2:30.1 | recording. A classic Jamie Graham incident occurred, right? |
| 2:34.9 | Only I could trip up 10 metres from my house on the morning of going to the late |
| 2:39.9 | district for a walking holiday and break my ankle, sir. |
| 2:44.0 | That was fun. |
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