User blog comment:EmpyrealInvective/Emp's Halloween Horr-tacular/@comment-26112985-20150925235406/@comment-26054278-20150926004320

I don't know, I think Maximum Overdrive was kind of meant to be bad. I don't think there was any point where he tried to be serious, and honest to god, it is surprisingly effective as a comedy movie. Who knows, Stephen King might have intentionally done it. Honest to god, I'm sure it was intentionally bad, and to be honest, for the final product that came out, it works a lot better than a lot of other films that kinda sorta tried to do the same thing. Watch it with friends, it makes everything way more fun.

A movie that might have been a little bit trying to joke around and was ridiculous, but ended up completely failing, was Jason X, aka Jason in space. Not really funny enough to be good-bad, and obviously not a good movie by any means. Just really poor, even with the ridiculous concept that had potential to be fairly hilarious.

Psycho 2 was pretty much doomed to be not really that good since the original was so good and the sequel was (obviously) not directed by Hitchcock.