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A 1974 Creator/{{ABC}} MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/ClintWalker and Creator/RobertUrich, based on the radical "man vs. his machines" theme that hit big and hard in the '70s and '80s.
Adapted from a 1944 short story by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon, it concerns a group of construction workers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Africa, setting up an airstrip for an oil drilling operation. One of the crew's bulldozers becomes possessed by an alien life force after its blade strikes a long-buried meteorite. The possessed dozer then takes it upon itself to hunt and kill the workers.
Adapted from a 1944 short story by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon, it concerns a group of construction workers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Africa, setting up an airstrip for an oil drilling operation. One of the crew's bulldozers becomes possessed by an alien life force after its blade strikes a long-buried meteorite. The possessed dozer then takes it upon itself to hunt and kill the workers.
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A 1974 Creator/{{ABC}} Creator/{{ABC|US}} MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/ClintWalker and Creator/RobertUrich, based on the radical "man vs. his machines" theme that hit big and hard in the '70s and '80s.
Adapted from a 1944 short story written by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon, it concerns a group of construction workers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Africa, setting up an airstrip for an oil drilling operation. One of the crew's bulldozers becomes possessed by an alien life force after its blade strikes a long-buried meteorite. The possessed dozer then takes it upon itself to hunt and kill the workers.
Adapted from a 1944 short story written by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon, it concerns a group of construction workers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Africa, setting up an airstrip for an oil drilling operation. One of the crew's bulldozers becomes possessed by an alien life force after its blade strikes a long-buried meteorite. The possessed dozer then takes it upon itself to hunt and kill the workers.
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Not to be confused with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer the Killdozer]], the vehicle involved in a real-life rampage at Granby, Colorado in 2004.
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Not to be confused with the Killdozer, the vehicle involved in a real-life rampage at Granby, Colorado in 2004.
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Not to be confused with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer the Killdozer, Killdozer]], the vehicle involved in a real-life rampage at Granby, Colorado in 2004.
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A 1974 Creator/{{ABC}} MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/ClintWalker and Robert Urich, based on the radical "man vs. his machines" theme that hit big and hard in the '70s and '80s.
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A 1974 Creator/{{ABC}} MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/ClintWalker and Robert Urich, Creator/RobertUrich, based on the radical "man vs. his machines" theme that hit big and hard in the '70s and '80s.
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* TooDumbToLive: Dutch, drunker than even Kelly has ever been, attempts to play chicken with the bulldozer in a little Jeep. This in and of itself isn't the stupid part. The stupid part is [[spoiler:Dutch makes no attempt to ''get out'' of the Jeep while the bulldozer is running it over, and just sits there and gets crushed]].
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Based on the poster it looks like a crazy bulldozer roving around some mountain-forest area killing people and ritualistically shoving graves around. The movie...not so much.
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** Based on the poster it looks like a crazy bulldozer roving around some mountain-forest area killing people and ritualistically shoving graves around. The movie...not so much.
** Based on the poster it looks like a crazy bulldozer roving around some mountain-forest area killing people and ritualistically shoving graves around. The movie...not so much.
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* GenericDoomsdayVillain: The evil alien entity that possesses the bulldozer is just a generic evil force that serves to run wild and cause chaos and death. It has no real motivation or personality.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: The evil alien entity that possesses the bulldozer is just a generic evil force that serves to run wild and cause chaos and death. It has no real motivation or personality.
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* OneWordTitle: ''Killdozer''. The title is compound word of ''kill'' and ''dozer''.
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* OneWordTitle: ''Killdozer''. The title is a compound word of ''kill'' and ''dozer''.
* {{Portmantitle}}: The title is a compound word of ''kill'' and ''dozer''.
* {{Portmantitle}}: The title is a compound word of ''kill'' and ''dozer''.
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** Also the one at the top of this page, which shows a farm tractor equipped with a bucket attachment, when the movie actually features a proper Caterpillar D9 bulldozer.
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A 1974 Creator/{{ABC}} MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/ClintWalker, Creator/ClintWalker and Robert Urich, based on the radical "man vs. his machines" theme that hit big and hard in the '70s and '80s.
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Adapted from a 1944 short story by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon, it concerns a group of construction workers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Africa, setting up for an oil drilling operation. One of the crew's bulldozers becomes possessed by an alien life force after its blade strikes a meteorite. The possessed dozer then takes it upon itself to hunt and kill the workers.
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Adapted from a 1944 short story by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon, it concerns a group of construction workers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Africa, setting up an airstrip for an oil drilling operation. One of the crew's bulldozers becomes possessed by an alien life force after its blade strikes a long-buried meteorite. The possessed dozer then takes it upon itself to hunt and kill the workers.
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A 1974 MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/ClintWalker based on the radical "man vs. his machines" theme that hit big and hard in the '70s and '80s.
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A 1974 Creator/{{ABC}} MadeForTVMovie starring Creator/ClintWalker Creator/ClintWalker, based on the radical "man vs. his machines" theme that hit big and hard in the '70s and '80s.
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Creator/MarvelComics published a comic book adaptation of Sturgeon's story the same year the film came out, in its sci-fi anthology title ''Worlds Unknown''.
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Adapted from a short story by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon, it concerns a group of construction workers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Africa, setting up for an oil drilling operation. One of the crew's bulldozers becomes possessed by an alien life force after its blade strikes a meteorite. The possessed dozer then takes it upon itself to hunt and kill the workers.
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Adapted from a 1944 short story by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon, it concerns a group of construction workers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Africa, setting up for an oil drilling operation. One of the crew's bulldozers becomes possessed by an alien life force after its blade strikes a meteorite. The possessed dozer then takes it upon itself to hunt and kill the workers.
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* ConstructionVehicleRampage: The bulldozer itself.
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A 1974 MadeForTVMovie based on the radical "man vs. his machines" theme that hit big and hard in the '70s and '80s.
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Not to be confused with the Killdozer, the vehicle involved in a real-life rampage at Granby, Colorado in 2004.
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* HighVoltageDeath: Kelly and Dennis destroy the dozer by luring it onto a metal grid which they then electrify.
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* ItKindOfLooksLikeAFace: the twin headlights and grille of the [[HauntedTechnology possessed bulldozer]] look like a malevolent face.
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* ItKindOfLooksLikeAFace: the The twin headlights and grille of the [[HauntedTechnology possessed bulldozer]] look like a malevolent face.
%%* * ItsProbablyNothing: Kelly asks mechanic Chub to examine the bulldozer to determine why it went berserk. Chub reports back that he can't find anything mechanically wrong with the dozer, but there is mysterious humming emanating from the blade which he can't locate a source for. Kelly listens to the hum, then dismisses it as "probably nothing important".
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* TheAlcoholic: Kelly is a recovering alcoholic. When strange things start happening, Dennis suggests that he might have fallen OffTheWagon.
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* CigarChomper: The tough-as-nails, unfazable mechanic Chub spends the entire film with a cigar clenched in his teeth.
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* MadeOfExplodium: Several random items in the camp explode when the bulldozer runs over them.
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* EvryCarIsAPinto: Chub's truck explodes after being very slowly overturned by the bulldozer.
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