Killdozer - opening and "trailer"

Killdozer was a now-cult made for TV movie from the 1970's. Veteran actors play veteran construction crew clearing terrain for an oil company, 200 miles off coast of Africa, that come under attack by one of their own bulldozers.
Actually, the bulldozer (the mighty D-9'er) has been contaminated by some kind of malevolent meteorite radiation, and perhaps its mind, located in its shovel evidently, has turned murderously psychotic.

This after striking a rock with early Robert Urich (Mac) at the controls--who succumbs early from a the effects of a massive 'bangeroo' headache from the encounter. Or maybe, more spectacularly, it is being remotely controlled by extraterrestial forces as Dutch speculates. It's more likely that it is being controlled by Hollywood and its conventions since it starts its murder spree by knocking off Beltrane, the only black guy in the cast. You won't know until the end!

Movies today try to look real, but movies like this, and its later (man vs machine) cousins, The Car and the classic Duel, share that 70's trademark of hardnosed grittiness and dedicated character studies, that make them at least FEEL real!



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[mengle2004]

Is that Spencer: for Hire?

[TVGuido]

@mengle2004 Yes it's Robert Urich. See my later video of Urich on Conan where he talks about Killdozer

[jamesandrew2000]

Tvguido, after watching this clip again I now consider this to be one of the top alien-controlled bulldozer movies ever made. The hunky all male cast doesn't look like the village people at all. Sorry for the mix up.

[TVGuido]

@jamesandrew2000 Now that's the spirit. I look forward to seeing the D'9er in the last episode of LOST!

[jamesandrew2000]

Looks like 70s gay porn.

[TVGuido]

That's not easy to find. Well you ought to know.

[racinlegend]

wouldn't it eventually run out of gas?

[ryodeath]

I still prefer the Marvin Heemeyer version as that was reality.

[1012mafia]

@freedoomofspeech he was the second in the movie, download it, hell it only lasts an hour and ten minutes!!!!!

[1012mafia]

a lot of folk, going on about it running out of fuel... the reason the plot gave is because "it meteoric power never needed fuel to run", when i was a kid and still now think though, " i would have just ran up and sat in the thing lol, it cant exactly scratch its nose.... classic film though.

[DrMarcusKane]

Amazing that the men on this building site couldn't run fast enough to get out of the bulldozer's way!

[Jammoko]

@racinlegend

Yup, but it figured how to dig a ditch by the fuel dump, cornered a 50gal fuel can with its blade and did a refuel. Clever eh!

[Reaps51]

Killdozer: The story of one man's plight to go swimming.

[dragganforce]

I like the sequel better starring Marvin Heymeyer

[huffalmighty]

can ANYONE tell me what piece of music comes on 30 seconds in? That's beautiful

[capesquirt]

@freebirth777

Love Davids Farm His dozer is a International. A tad bit smaller . We should suggest that Dave does a spoof remake of this flick. Have the dozer push boulders over and down sky hill and have "redneck rickem" driving the Jeep as he wants to go for a swim at Daves pond,only to discover,theres Dave with the dozer about to run him over. Others scream,"lets get outta here" Then Jen arrives with the backhoe to fend of the dozer. In the end the dozer gets blown up by a car airbag..

[capesquirt]

@kingmikeod

Wow. Was you one of my friends then. That same exact sequence happened at my house also.... On Cape Cod