Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Killdozer (1974) ** (out of 4) A small construction crew working on a tiny island off an African coast come across a mysterious blue rock, which they try to move without any luck. Even worse is that this blue rock came from outer space thousands of years earlier and now it has possessed the large bulldozer, which is trying to kill the crew. This made-for-TV film is based on the Theodore Sturgeon novel, although it's worth noting that Stephen King came out with his short story "Truck" the previous year and you have to wonder how much of King's story he knew from the earlier one by Sturgeon. Either way, this here is a pretty bland film but then again, the majority of the films dealing with trucks coming to life are. I mean, there's really just so much suspension of disbelief that you can have without it just becoming downright silly and I think this film here just lacks any suspense to make it work. I also thought it was pretty boring as more often than not nothing is really happening and we're left with the characters sitting around talking and telling stories. This includes a running (bad) joke dealing with one of them constantly wanting to go swimming. Another problem is that the bulldozer doesn't go very fast so everyone could just run away from it but never do. The cast includes Clint Walker, Carl Betz, Neville Brand and a young Rober Urich but none of them can save the picture. KILLDOZER has a catchy title but sadly the film doesn't live up to much.

Sure. It's ostensibly about a driver less Caterpillar D9 Bulldozer on the rampage. Go ahead and blame the gun! I guess if it had a driver the movie would be lacking a key plot device if not a title. Really? Like so many Hollywood tomes, "Killdozer" is prescient. It's the "China Syndrome" of over development...and more importantly, Clint Walker at least tried to show us how to stop it: by his God-like example. It's not Cheyene of the nightmare producing (in my 10-year-old case) made for TV "Night of the Grizzly". Clint barely put that humongous bastard down (the grizzly was badly burned in a forest fire as a cub, another unheeded environmental warning). But, I digress. Clint always met whatever threats or evils head on. He was quiet and determined--a lot reluctant and a little bit shy. A quiet smile and never a sound or complaint. Everone was drawn to him because of his heroic beauty and stature. He was the cast's and America's last and best hope. Unlike most of our heroes, he never let us down. And as an actor, Clint barely needed a script although he deserved a lot better ones than he got. In an episode of "Cheyene" he pushed a carload of ore out of a mine unassisted. My father was a coal miner who as a child drove mules that had the same relentless task. Life is cruel like that but Clint never was. It gave a kid hope. That was just enough. Thanks, Clint. God Bless you and God Bless the United States of America. That's what Hollywood can accomplish even when it's not trying. You made it look easy.

This movie brings back an old memory, and not a good one either. At the age of 11 I would routinely check the TV Guide to decide which movie to watch that night. This particular night, I had a choice between Killdozer and Silent Running. They started at the same time on different stations. For some reason I chose to watch Killdozer.Killdozer has practically no plot. It was very, very disappointing. And to make matters even worse, I switched channels over to Silent Running which had about 15 minutes run-time left, and from what I could see it was 1000 times better than Killdozer.I sat there through the remaining minutes of Silent Running wishing I hadn't made the decision to watch Killdozer instead of Silent Running.

A seldom-seen, made-for-television-movie that belies its modest budget and limited circulation.Here's that familiar old plot; a group of people go somewhere isolated and find something unpleasant that they don't know how to deal with. It's served up terror and suspense from 'The Thing' to 'The Blair Witch Project'.In this case, a group of blue-collar types seconded to a desert island, ram a strange boulder with their excavator. Some entity in the rock relocates to the machine and - presumably now regarding humans as a threat - decides to sort 'em out. It's a very Stephen King premise. Machines assuming a malevolent will are just his ticket. Think of 'Christine', or 'Trucks' - the latter released as a mediocre effort called 'Maximum Overdrive'.The rest of the movie is dedicated to a battle of wits between the excavator trying to kill them off, and the mens' attempts to stay alive long enough to outfox it somehow.There are some sly little moments of tension. The nocturnal confrontations are particularly hairy as the machine has its headlights on, giving it the appearance of two great big eyes. Of course, the problem of being pursued by a bulldozer is similar to that of being pursued by Daleks. In the latter case, before they discovered levitation, you simply bade them goodnight and went upstairs. With the 'dozer, you just needed to keep well ahead of it, because it could barely manage walking-speed on the soft sand. Alternatively; one could just walk down to the water's edge. It would very quickly sink-in. And in any case; its diesel must run out. A big piece of plant would have enormous fuel-consumption.These little quibbles aside, it ain't half bad for what it is. Short and simple, no frills, mid-1970's TV movie. Not remarkable, but certainly not bad.The cast are largely C-list, headed by Clint Walker. He pulls off a surprisingly good turn in most of the movies that have featured him. He's a very big bloke in the natural way, rather than the muscle-bound sculpturesque excess of Schwartzenegger. He's also a much more expressive actor, too. Directing, lighting, editing are all up to the job and workman-like. Sound effects are simple but interesting.As a comparison; I recently watched the modern teen-flick 'Cabin Fever'. Same premise again; people go somewhere isolated etc, etc. Well, despite its greater age, smaller budget and simplicity; 'Killdozer' could shovel earth all over it.Give it a whizz, if you get the chance. It ain't a classic, but at the right price it shouldn't disappoint.