Stars: Clint Walker, Carl Betz, Neville Brand, James Wainwright, Robert Urich

Choice Dialogue:
DENNIS: "It's too heavy to hang, won't fit in a gas chamber"

Conclusions:
* Evil machinery comes with it's own soundtrack
* If your truck won't start and a bulldozer is bearing down at 2mph from 500 feet away, you will get mowed down, especially if you have fourth billing.
* Got a rock that won't move? Just ram it repeatedly with an expensive heavy piece of machinery, it'll move.
* A two-mile and hour killing machine is still a killing machine.

Review:
Just the other day I was saying "You know, there just aren't enough killer construction equipment movies in the world". Then my friend slapped me silly and I regained my senses.

I think the source of that brief psychotic episode stemed from my bizarre attraction to Killer-Everyday-Object movies, movies that give an evil agenda to everything from Mack Trucks to ham salad. Filmmakers like to tell you that these films are a serious commentary on our obsession with our creature comforts and the dangers that befall us when we depend too much upon them. Oh Yeah!! Uh-Huh!! Yeah!! Right!! Sure!! Pull the other one, it chimes!

In 1974, the ABC network attempted to repeat the success of Steven Spielberg's Duel with another "machinery gone amock" thriller and this time hired Jerry London to do the job. London is the creative genius that would later use his skills to give the world TV movies about Barbara Mandrell and John Denver (Thanks for nothing, Jer).

The movie involves a group of construction workers who travel to a secluded island, a former WWII landing strip, to clear the land for a new oil refinery. Two lazy workers, Dutch and Mack, run over a rock that refuses to move. The solution? Ram it repeatedly until it is unearthed. Unfortunately it doesn't budge but instead breaks open and a strange blue light beams up from the rock and hits the bulldozer and VIOLA! A devil-posessed killing machine is born.

The crew is slow to realize that the dozer is dozing over their numbers one by one but when they do, the crew spends the rest of the movie peering around corners to see if Killerdozer is ready to pounce. Odd thing is, everytime they look around a corner, it's ALWAYS there. The suspense doesn't hold much water since a killer bulldozer has only two methods of disposal for it's victims: Wall-splat and Run-down. It's hard to discribe but the dozer manages to look both ridiculous and menacing while it taunts it's prey but, believe me, it happens.

The whole thing winds down to a very odd showdown between Dennis and the Killdozer followed by a game of chicken that has to be seen to be believed (consider that bulldozers only move about 2mph and you won't be surprised when I tell you that the climactic battle takes FOR-EVER!!) KD falls into Dennis' electified trap and dies. No kidding, the bulldozer is given a death scene! It sputters, sparks and I could swear I heard it whimper.

The aftereffect is not exactly one for the history books. The movie ended up on week's TV ratings at #86 right behind a rerun of "Love American Style". Stan Lee was one of the two people watching and because he loved it so much he commissioned a comic book be adapted. It's remains to this day the envy of all comic book collecters but be reminded that seeking it out will probably set you back about 99 cents.