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Killdozer (1974)
Directed by Jerry London
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Overview
A small construction crew on an island is terrorized when a spirit-like being takes over a large bulldozer, and goes on a killing rampage.
Length 74 minutes
Actors
Clint Walker | Carl Betz | Neville Brand | James Wainwright | Robert Urich | James A. Watson, Jr
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/15/2016 | Movie Screen | Digital | Theater | 5.5 stars |
| (Average) 5.5 stars |
Viewing Notes
After watching Mad Max: Fury Road in 35mm at the Sie, we stuck around for KILLDOZER on the big screen as part of Denver Film Society’s Bootleg Theater series.
This is a movie I’d been wanting to revisit for a long time. I’d seen it way back in the seventies on television when it first came out, but remembered very little about it. The copy that the film society obtained was in surprisingly good shape! It looked like they projected it from a clean TV-to-DVD recording. There were obvious scan lines but the picture was crisp and clean with none of the copy-of-a-copy VHS feel I was expecting. The sound was also nice and clear.
Killdozer isn’t a great movie but it was better than I was expecting. The corny dialogue, limited budget and lack of any real on-screen violence add to the fun. It was great to see with an audience and there were more people there than I expected. The person introducing the movie asked if anyone had seen it before and I was the ONLY one. Kind of proud of that!
Really happy to have gotten the chance to see this again, and in an actual theater with an audience no less!
Jerry London, the director, did a lot of made-for-tv stuff but is probably best known for the SHOGUN mini-series.
After seeing this, I really want someone to do a movie that combines the ideas of KILLDOZER and IT FOLLOWS into KILLDOZER FOLLOWS, wherein a bulldozer relentlessly, and in as straight a line as possible, comes after someone for the course of the entire movie, destroying everything in its way: buildings, cars, people, roads, cops, military, etc. The final scene would be the protagonist escaping into a movie theater that’s screening KILLDOZER and the bulldozer plows through the screen right into the camera, which fades to black as the blade takes up the entire screen. BOOM! I’d pay to see that!
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