Maximum Oeuvredrive: Every Stephen King Film in one song

Based on the novel "IT", this song is from the musical "The Opera House of Blood": in small town Maine, an ancient evil sleeps beneath the streets; an entire population has been coerced into compliant silence by the promise of prosperity and comfort. One man has sold his soul to the transdimensional maleficence in exchange for a chance to be the world's greatest living author. Guess who's coming to the theatre? (Hint: It's a clown...)

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Over 100 films have now been made from the works of Stephen King. This song uses the titles of over 106 films in the lyrics, to celebrates the genius (for he is clearly a creative genius!) of Stephen King. The films cover a huge gamut: from Hollywood (Carrie, Misery, The Shining) to Bollywood (No Smoking). The title "Maximum Oeuvre Drive" is a nod to the only film Mr. King directed himself, 1986's Maximum Overdrive: one of the worst films ever made, it is, of course, celebrated by King fans as a masterpiece.



The songs were recorded, (by me and my children), on a broken down Tascam multi-track recorder.


Carrie; Night Flier; The Shining; Cat's Eye; Christine, Cujo; The Running Man; Children of the Corn; Firestarter; Creepshow; Stand By Me; Silver Bullet; The Kid from Colorado (Haven); Misery; Sometimes They Come Back; Sleepwalkers; The Dark Half; Needful Things; The Shawshank Redemption; The Tommyknockers; Apt Pupil; The Boogeyman; The Stand; Bag of Bones; Secret Window; Dolores Clairborne; Graveyard Shift; the Mist; Sorry Right Number; Last Rung on the Ladder; Thinner; Hearts in Atlantis; Pet Sematary; Rose Red; The Green Mile; Riding the Bullet; 1408; Maximum Overdrive;
Langoliers; Golden Years; Salem's Lot; The Storm of the Century; Creepshow 2; Carrie 2; return to Salem's Lot; the Lawnmower Man; Pet Sematary 2; trucks; Michael Jackson's Ghosts; Children of the Corn 2 The Final Sacrifice; Children of the Corn 4 Urban Harvest; Children of the Corn 5 Fields of Terror; Children of the Corn 666 Isaac's Return; Children of the corn 7 Revelation; Children of the Corn 8 Genesis; All That You Love Will Be Carried Away; The Secret Transit Codes of America's Highways; Suffer the Little Children; Nightmares and Dreamscapes;
That feeling, you can only say what it is in French; the things they left behind;
Paranoid; the woman in the room; desperation; here there be tigers;
strawberry spring; word processor of the gods; no smoking; the man in the black suit;
gramma; night surf; luckey quarter; the cat from hell;
chinga; disciples of the crow; llamadas; the diary of Ellen Rimbauer;
rainy season; the revelations of Becka Paulson; I know what you need; kingdom hospital;

the moving finger; the charning; in the deathroom; the man who would not shake hands; the man who loved flowers;
Popsy; Willa; autopsy room four; grey matter; Cain rose up;
everything's eventual; one for the road; Dolan's Cadillac; hard ride; Tussenstop
survivor type; my pretty pony; flowers for norma; message from Jerusalem; Mute;
The Dark Tower Series; Under the Dome; Ghost Brothers of Darkland County;
Mangler 2; The Mangler; The Mangler Reborn; Dreamcatcher


Motion Picture Clips:

Carrie, 1976, Brian De Palma, United Artists
Pet Sematary Music Video, 1989, Bill Fishman
American Express Commercial, Stephen King, 1985
Maximum Overdrive, 1986, Stephen King, De Laurentis Entertainment Group
Michael Jackson's Ghosts, 1997, Stan Winston, Kingdom Productions
Children of the Corn II, the Final Sacrifice, 1993, David Price, Dimension Films, Paramount Pictures
Children of the Corn VIII: Genesis, 2011, Joel Soisson, Dimension Films
The Secret Transit Codes of America's Highways, 2004, Brian Berkowitz
Suffer the Little Children, 2005, Bernardo Villela
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French, 2011, Nathan Gathergood
The Things they Left Behind, 2011, Pablo Macho Maysonet IV
Paranoid, 2000, Jay Holben
Desperation, 2006, Mick Garris, Touchstone television
Strawberry Spring, 2001, Doveed Linder
No Smoking, 2007, Anurag Kashyup, Eros International
Gramma (The Twilight Zone), 1986, Bradford May, Chiller, CBS, MGM
Luckey Quarter, 2004, Robert David Cochrane
Chinga, (The X-Files s5 e10), 1998, Kim Manners, Ten Thirteen, 20th Century Fox
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, 2003, craig R. Baxley, Greengrass Productions
The Revelations of Becka Paulson (The Outer Limits, s3, e15), 1997, Steven Weber, MGM Domestic
Kingdom Hospital, 2004, Craig R. Baxley, ABC, Touchstone Television
Mute, 2011, Jacqueline Wright
The Dark Tower, the gunslinger and the Man in Black, 2010, Ed Moorhouse
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, 2012, Susan V. Booth, Alliance Theater
The Mangler reborn, 2005, Erik Gardner, Matt Cunningham, Lions Gate Films

An Unexpected Spotting of Stephen King, 2010, amp66cobain, NEScom

p.s. I know there are a few films I left out: add a comment, whydontcha?

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[TheTaylw1]

you seid every film what about stephen kings it

[joseph field]

IT is the best! but this song is from a musical about "IT" and the town of Derry, Maine ("Bangor"), so we left IT out (on purpose) (but maybe we should have put Pennywise in anyway!)

[babyteeth4]

Dreadfully bad vocals but I liked seeing all those video clips.

[joseph field]

thanks: it' hard work singing that badly!

[cpsamfield]

Jesus is coming, and he is pissed!

[joseph field]

sodas! I'm buying!

[Paige Oesterling]

Maximum Overdrive...Maximum Overkill..this tune's gonna be in my head...from now until...forever. Love it, love King.

[joseph field]

the video was produced at an offshore island near Switzerland where no laws apply: the video, ipso facto, is from a story all about "IT", so Pennywise and friends do not appear in this one, but see our next video for some scenes from IT: "Beep Beep Richie: Stephen King vs Richie Tozier") IT's chuckaliscious!

[smittywerbenjegerman]

also "Ayana"... nice

[smittywerbenjegerman]

"HOME DELIVERY" was a pretty good small film... an excellent place to see tons of rare SK movies is stephenkingfilms(ot-day om-cay)... they are clearly very into it!