“I don't wanna be buried, in a Pet Sematary” sang The Ramones in the 1989 film version of Stephen King's Pet Sematary.
(scary Stephen King car image via deviantART/Smurfesque) The car DID have other attributes, however, that one won't find on a Buick dealer's option sheet. When is a Buick not a Buick? When it's the featured “vehicle” at the heart of Stephen King's 2002 novel From A Buick 8.Ībandoned at a western Pennsylvania gas station in 1975, what outwardly appeared to be a 1953 Buick Roadmaster turned out to have a steering wheel that wouldn't turn, prop dashboard instruments and an engine with no moving parts. Like Stark, the ominous Oldsmobile seemingly came out of nowhere - and won't go back without a fight.īy all accounts Stark was "not a very nice guy" but one thing's for certain: he drove a very cool car. and he applied those very words to the decklid of his midnight black 1966 Olds Toronado. George Stark, the evil alter-ego of author Thad Beaumont from The Dark Half, is in his own words a “high toned son of a bitch”. (scary Stephen King truck image via Not Coming to a Theater Near You)
Written and directed by King himself, the flick starred Emilio Estevez and featured an assortment of enraged, driverless vehicles turned against humanity by radiation from an Earth-grazing comet. The infamous Green Goblin not only fronted a Happy Toyz truck, it was perhaps the most memorable “face” from the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive. Green Goblin Truck from Maximum Overdrive This septet of scary cars, trucks and even a train epitomize King's – and by extension our – tormented love-hate relationship with all things wheeled. Best-selling horror author Stephen King must have a thing for evil vehicles he was writing about them long before a minivan nearly ended his life in 1999.
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