![]() Now, whenever I see construction equipment in movies I have to snicker at the thought of Clint Walker struggling to drive a possessed bulldozer. Thankfully my old favorite rental shop at the time had a well-used tape of it and I had a blast. Their episode for I Accuse My Parents featured a short called "Truck Farming" where a dozer is being used and Crow shouts "Clint Walker, NO!" - after that joke I never understood, I had to find this movie. I came across Killdozer largely due to Mystery Science Theater 3000 and their Clint Walker jokes. Writing that now I kinda want to see that movie! This bulldozer could have been a possessed train and we could have had a sequel movie to his classic television series. He straps in like he's in Cheyenne all over again only without a six-shooter and a horse. Even Clint Walker as an established film and TV icon never feels like he's slumming it. These guys dig in and slay their parts without ever tipping it. Here, there isn't any of that kind of apathy. Most B-Movies fall apart when there's a cast member who clearly hates being there and obviously feels they're above it. To that point, for this breezy 73-minute movie, it's the cast that makes it. ![]() His ability to play this sequence straight is a testament to his talent as an actor - his straight-faced timing would come in handy on Airplane II: The Sequel. ![]() who has the most prolonged death sequence with the mad monster. Obviously, you can only do so much with that, but some of the sequences are pretty damn creepy. The camera spends a lot of time trying to make this massive bulldozer appear as a sinister conscious creature capable of inflicting an incredible amount of harm with a measure of silent stealthy cunning. As with the best of B-movie science fiction and horror, it doesn't stop long enough for it to consider how silly it is, it just goes for it. He makes a lot of effort to pass off this silly plot with some measure of legitimacy. The rest of the cast including Carl Betz, Neville Brand, James Wainwright, James Watson Jr., and Robert Urich all hold their own as long as they can - but the bulldozer is the obvious star of the show.Īll credit to director Jerry London for bringing this to life. Clint Walker represents the primary star power here, and he does what he does best. From the get, it's apparent this isn't the most lavishly budgeted of movies. When the dozer comes alive and kills the men on its own - foreman Lloyd Kelly (Clint Walker), has to find a way to end the unstoppable machine's reign of terror before the next crew arrives on the island.īased on a sci-fi novel from 1944, I have to give props to the crazy person who thought this would be the perfect movie-of-the-week feature and then having the gumption to actually make it. Unfortunately, thousands of years earlier a meteorite carrying an alien life form crashed on that island, and when the workers disturb it, it infects their gigantic Caterpillar D9 bulldozer. An oil company needs an airstrip on a remote island in Africa - so they hire six of the best construction workers to grade the land and build it in record time.
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