Killdozer

OK. This is a fun film. Caterpillar D9 gets possessed, starts killing workers. But, what the hey, wasn't it great to see Clint Walker, Carl Betz and Neville Brand again? Eerie? Yeah, kinda. Spooky? Not unless you bought into it a lot more than I did. Liked the scene where Betz holds the D niner (glad to hear some construction worker ex-militaris speak here) at bay with a steam(?) shovel. Scary? Not really. But, fun...and it was great to see Carl, Clint and Neville again. BTW, this non-videoed TVdrama became a kind of campus cult classic for a while. Check it out.

When I saw the vote record for this title on this site, I was dumbfounded. 32 (the largest number) out of 198 people gave it only a 1!

I remember this film from when it first aired. It was one of the ABC MOVIE OF THE WEEK projects. These were short (2 hours with commercials) films produced with TV series level budgets. This film was based on Theodore Sturgeon's short story about a machine that becomes "possessed" by an electromagnetic alien life-form and turns on its operators.

Because of the budget restraints, these films had to rely more on story than showmanship.

Young Orson Wells would have been right at home working on a project like this. Filmed entirely on location. This film was a thriller where an ordinary object we can take for granted becomes an object of fear – a twist Edgar Allen Poe often used in his works. The film is heavily altered from TS's original because of the low budget. The background story of his version of the fall of Atlantis was unnecessary to the plot, so a different and simpler opening sequence was filmed: a meteor crashing into the Earth 100,000 years ago. John Carpenter would use a similar conceptual opening again years later in his remake of THE THING. This film is a story – not a masterpiece – just a story. And I felt it was a good one.

For that matter, so did most of my friends at the time felt the same way -- it was a popular movie.

How I wish wish wish this was released on DVD!

A small construction crew on a small Pacific Island results to be horrorized when a spirit-like being takes over a big bulldozer going bersek , and continuing a murderous rampage , causing wreak havoc. Six construction workers are building an airstrip when find a strange non-material lifeform which has lived in the ruins of an ancient temple for millenia . The entity is of course ominous and commandeers the earthmoving equipment to the general detriment of all concerned. And it's up to worker Clint Walker to to stop the demonic , driveless bulldozer. Everyone knows a Machine Cannot Kill. Except the Machine. Six men ... playing a deadly game of cat and mouse ... With a machine that wants to kill them.

A pretty solid , intriguing and suspenseful 70's vehicular horror film based on the novella by Theodore Sturgeon. Passable thriller originally made for TV with plenty of thrills, chills, breathtaking attacks, suspense, and anything else. There are not motivations, no explanations, except perhaps for a hint of allegory in the screenline and a tense visual suggestion about the ancient fight between the vulnerable, prancing knight and the lumbering , nasty dragon. The cult "Killdozer" is a supernatural tale of a creepy , malevolant bulldozer that apparently might be driven by the devil himself , adding the nice choreography of the weird machine while attacking the unfortunate workers . The entertaining story is visibly inspired in "Duel (1971) " and is inconclusive, and the spectator never knows for sure whether the bulldozer is driven by a demoniac being or a space force from a meteorite. The admittedly ridiculous fantastic premise stretches credibility to a near breaking point, but thankfully the script's patent absurdness is successfully surmounted by Jerry London's direction professional . The wreak havoc caused by the bulldozer is never graphic and that is a good point since the plot is supported by the nice acting from Clint Walker , Neville Brand , James Wainwright , Carl Betz and brief appearance of a newcomer Robert Urich to be continued by a notorious television career despite his early death .

The picture belongs to subgenre about mysterious automobiles with own life whose main representation turns out to be ¨Duel¨(1971) , following ¨Killdozer¨(1974) , ¨The Car¨ (1977) by Elliott Silverstein , ¨Christine¨ (1983) by John Carpenter and ¨Maximum overdrive¨ (1966) by Stephen King . In spite of receiving largely negative reviews from both critics and audience members , these movies have acquired a cult following over the years and nowadays considered to be cult classics.

The motion picture was professsionally directed by Jerry London giving a smooth, plain, unfussy filmmaking, furthermore, thirty and some years later this movie has not aged. London is a director and producer, known for directing some prestigious miniseries , such as : Chiefs (1983), Shogun (1980) , The Scarlet and the Black (1983) and Ellis Island(1984) .And making a lot of episodes of popular series , such as : The Guardian , The Rockford Files , City of Angels, Hawai 5-0 , Hotel , The Six Million Dollar Man, Kojak , Switch , Forrester , Baretta , Marcus Welby , Lucas tanner , The Partridge Family , The Show of Doris Day, Hogan's heroes, among others . And this Killdozer (1974) rating 5.5/10 . Acceptable and passable.

My favourite film by a mile as a small child. I remember watching this with my sister when I was about 6 and she was 2 and it scared the pants off us!!.

Its a great tale of a group of construction workers on a remote island who accidentally drive a bulldozer into a very strange rock - having very strange effects, giving the bulldozer a killer streak!! - Sound naff?, well maybe - enjoyable and still a little scary? - you bet!! I haven't seen the film for about 10 years and I don't think its on video but I recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone who likes such better known films as "Duel" and "The Car"

KILLDOZER, progenitor of more collegiate howls of laughter than even the 1974 Wisconsin Badger football team, and that was a bad, bad team.

Two big stars, Clint Walker (movies) and Carl Betz (TV) peeking out from hiding, trying to figure out how to kill KILLDOZER -- "Too heavy to hang..won't fit in a gas chamber." (!!!) When it came up for rerun the entire student lounge was jammed full.

A construction crew on a tiny island, a huge bulldozer (sorry, KILLDOZER) with a roaring diesel engine. And yet, eerily silent as it maneuvers around hills to spring, well crawl, out at its next victim.

KILLDOZER!!! The two-mile-an-hour menace no one could escape.