This is Your King on Drugs: Maximum Overdrive & Dreamcatcher
Nightmare on Film Street - A Horror Movie Podcast
Kimberley Elizabeth & Jonathan Dehaan
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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We're kicking off Nightmare on Film Street's Reaper Madness Month with two Stephen King tales that wouldn't exist without drugs. Join your horror hosts Jon & Kim as they hoot and holler their way through Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive (1986), a movie that was (arguably) written, directed, and produced by cocaine. And for the comedown, we're settling into the cozy, alien-infested cabin of Dreamcatcher (2003), a movie adapted from the novel King deliriously penned under the influence of prescription pain killers. It's a double-feature over killer trucks, absurd telekinesis, and space worms shooting out of people's butts. Joinn usss...
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Plenty Disgusting podcast that works. |
| 0:09.0 | You're listening to Nightmare on Film Street. |
| 0:14.0 | The current time is 666. Traffic is clear ahead from here to the afterlife. |
| 0:22.0 | But it's hell outside. |
| 0:25.0 | For the next hour, you're on Nightmare Time. |
| 0:29.0 | So, let's give a grave welcome to our hosts, John and Kim. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello again, Fiends, and welcome to Nightmare on Film Street. I'm Kim. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm John. |
| 0:43.0 | And this week, we've gone into the mind of Stephen King on drugs. |
| 0:50.0 | That's right. This is your King on drugs. |
| 0:53.0 | We are talking about maximum overdrive, a movie fueled by cocaine. |
| 0:59.0 | And Dreamcatcher, a book fueled by prescription pain pills. |
| 1:04.0 | Neither of these movies would exist without the help of drugs. |
| 1:09.0 | And that's what we're here to talk about today on the podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | The help of? |
| 1:13.0 | Okay, maybe help of is not the best way to describe it. |
| 1:18.0 | But it's Reaper Madness this month at Nightmare on Film Street, both the podcast and the website. |
| 1:23.0 | We are talking about movies that either feature or are thanks to drugs. |
| 1:29.0 | And also movies that feature the grim reaper. |
| 1:32.0 | Not like doesn't have to fit both criteria because that would be nearly impossible. |
| 1:36.0 | It's one movie and technically, well, it's it's Bill and Ted's bogus journey. |
| 1:40.0 | But also they don't really do drugs. |
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