There are plenty of hidden treasures to discover among the wide selection of 70's made-for-TV horror/thriller movies. Most of these are virtually unknown and even more impossible to track down, but when you do find one you're usually in for a big and undemanding little treat. "Killdozer" is the one that always stood high on my wish list for obvious reasons: a movie about a murderous vehicle is always guaranteed fun (remember "Duel" and "The Car"?). The production values here are very modest and the few special effects used look particularly cheesy and dated by now, but there's still a fair portion of suspense to enjoy as well as the macho performances of Clint Walker and Robert Urich. "Killdozer" opens with the cheesy image of flashy blue meteorite peacefully floating through space and making its way to earth. A couple millions of years later, the place where it crashed a remote island little off the African coast is a construction site where six workers are assigned to build an airstrip. When one of them hits the meteorite with a heavy bulldozer, a blinding blue light transfers into the large machine and it becomes possessed with an evil force. It goes haywire and promptly becomes an uncontrollable killing device, functioning by itself and aiming for the construction workers. "Killdozer" has a simple but highly effective premise and director Jerry London processed it into an explosive and powerfully short (barely 75 minutes) little movie. Obviously not the type of film you watch for its intellectual content and poetically written dialogs, but the sight of a 15 ton bulldozer running amok definitely gets your blood pumping.
