Killdozer (1974)

Killdozer (1974)

Directed by: Jerry London

Starring: Clint Walker, Robert Ulrich, Carl Betz

Killdozer is a classic story about the love of a man and a murderous bulldozer. No wait, it’s just about a bulldozer that comes to life and kills people. To me, this is the very reason the video camera was invented. So I can see construction workers fight a bulldozer.

While on a standard demolition job, Clint Walker and a group of standard 70’s TV movie actors accidentally bring a bulldozer to life when they hit a strange blue glowing rock with it. Of course, the first thing the killdozer does is kill people. In the hour-long running time of this movie, the killdozer actually has a pretty good killing spree. It manages to kill three construction workers before being tricked to run over electrified grating. Yeah, they had to trick the bulldozer. It can see with it’s headlights and thirst for blood.

Killdozer is basically a blueprint for movies like Maximum Overdrive and Christine and Short Circuit, I guess. The whole genre that Stephen King based his career off of, and I’m blaming Killdozer for all of it. Thanks a lot, Killdozer. You jerk.