This Day in Horror History: Happy Birthday, MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE Actor Emilio Estevez
On this day in horror history, actor Emilio Estevez was born in Bronx, New York City on May 12, 1962. Estevez is best known around these parts for his roles in Alex Cox’s Repo Man with Harry Dean Stanton and Stephen King’s horror-comedy Maximum Overdrive with Pat Hingle.
Other genre projects include Men at Work, Freejack, and Judgment Night.
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Outside of the horror genre, he is known for roles in classics such as John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club, The Outsiders, St. Elmo’s Fire, Loaded Weapon 1, and Young Guns and Young Guns II. Not to mention is role as Coach Gordon Bombay in The Mighty Ducks, D2: Mighty Ducks, and D3: Mighty Ducks. Fittingly, his next role will be reprising that role in Disney Plus’ Mighty Ducks reboot.
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Maximum Overdrive begins after a comet causes a radiation storm on Earth, machines come to life and turn against their makers. Holed up in a North Carolina truck stop, a group of survivors must fend for themselves against a mass of homicidal trucks. A diner cook, Bill Robinson (Emilio Estevez), emerges as the unlikely leader of the pack, attempting to find an escape plan for himself and the survivors, who include his boss, Bubba Hendershot, and a newlywed couple.
Meanwhile, Repo Man begins after being fired from his job, slacker and punk rocker Otto (Emilio Estevez) lands a gig working for an eccentric repossession agent named Bud (Harry Dean Stanton). At first, Otto is reluctant to work as a repo man, but he grows to love the fast-paced job. After learning of a Chevy Malibu that has been given a $20,000 price tag, Otto embarks on a quest to find the car with the beautiful Leila, who claims the trunk’s contents are otherworldly.
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Rated R for adult situations/language, violence, the film sports a 98% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes with a Critics Consensus that reads: Repo Man is many things: an alien-invasion film, a punk-rock musical, a send-up of consumerism. One thing it isn’t is boring.
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