History YMMV / Killdozer

* SpecialEffectsFailure: it's painfully obvious that most of the budget was spent on making Killdozer move on its own and it shows. The death scenes (what few there actually are) are lackluster at best and the opening shot of Earth is a very obvious miniature model that looks like modelling clay.

** Kelly's death in particular highlights the lack of care put into the death scenes. As not only does he take a [[TooDumbToLive level up in stupidity]], he flat out disappears when his jeep is crushed by the bulldozer. Not even a cheap dummy is used.

* SpiritualPredecessor: To both, ''Film/TheCar'', another seventies film about a supernatural-entity-possessed vehicle on a rampage, and to ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'', which takes this movie's premise up to eleven. It might even have inspired Creator/StephenKing to write the short story, ''Literature/{{Trucks}}'', upon which the latter film is based.

* SpiritualPredecessor: To both, ''Film/TheCar'', another seventies film about a supernatural-entity-possessed vehicle on a rampage, and to ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'', which takes this movie's premise UpToEleven. It might even have inspired Creator/StephenKing to write the short story, ''Literature/{{Trucks}}'', upon which the latter film is based.

* SpiritualPredecessor: To both, ''Film/TheCar'', another seventies film about a supernatural-entity-possessed vehicle on a rampage, and to ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'', which takes this movie's premise UpToEleven.

* SpiritualPredecessor: To both, ''[[Film/TheCar]]'', another seventies film about a supernatural-entity-possesed vehicle on a rampage, and to ''[[Film/MaximumOverdrive]]'', which takes this movie's premise UpToEleven.

* WhatAnIdiot: 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]]. To be fair, the implication was that by that point [[DrivenToSuicide he just didn't care anymore]].

* AdaptationDistillation - Aside from the basic plot of "bulldozer is possessed and runs around killing people," ''Killdozer'' has little to do with Sturgeon's original story. In the story, [[spoiler:the cause of the bulldozer's possession is ancient evil gods]] rather than some mysterious blue alien stuff. The original story did describe the "ancient evil gods" as being something more [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian]] than anything else, so the alien element kinda-sorta fits, but the visualization of them as glowing blue slime is downright laughable.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment - When the alien life force transfers from the meteor to the bulldozer, it [[spoiler:kills Mack in a blinding blue flash]]. This has nothing to do with anything and even later, when this ability might have come in handy, the alien never [[spoiler:fries anybody]] ever again. How Kelly, who was sitting in the dozer at the time and thus in the same proximity as [[spoiler:Mack]], didn't [[spoiler:also get zapped]] is never explained.

* WhatAnIdiot - 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]]. To be fair, the implication was that by that point [[DrivenToSuicide he just didn't care anymore]].

* ReferencedBy: RealLife. In 2004, a disgruntled mechanic turned a bulldozer into a light tank using a conrete-and-steel fortification and a hunting rifle. It was immediately dubbed "The Killdozer" by the media.

* ReferencedBy: RealLife. In 2004, a disgruntled mechanic turned a bulldozer into a light tank using a conrete fortification and a hunting rifle. It was immediately dubbed "The Killdozer."

* AdaptationDistillation - Aside from the basic plot of "bulldozer is possessed and runs around killing people," ''Killdozer'' has little to do with Sturgeon's original story. In the story, [[spoiler:the cause of the bulldozer's possession is ancient evil gods]] rather than some mysterious blue alien stuff. The original story did describe the 'ancient evil gods' as being something more [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian]] than anything else, so the alien element kinda-sorta fits, but the visualization of them as glowing blue slime is downright laughable.

* AdaptationDistillation - Aside from the basic plot of "bulldozer is possessed and runs around killing people," ''Killdozer'' has little to do with Sturgeon's original story. In the story, [[spoiler:the cause of the bulldozer's possession is ancient evil gods]] rather than some mysterious blue alien stuff.
** The original story did describe the 'ancient evil gods' as being something more [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian]] then anything, so the alien element kinda-sorta fits.

* WhatAnIdiot - 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]].
** The implication was that by that point [[DrivenToSuicide he just didn't care anymore]].

* AdaptationDisplacement: Probably not many people are too aware ''Killdozer'' was based on a Theodore Sturgeon short story.
* AdaptationDistillation - Despite the basic plot of "bulldozer is possessed and runs around killing people," ''Killdozer'' has little to do with Sturgeon's original story. In the story, [[spoiler:the caused of the bulldozer's possession is ancient evil gods]] rather than some mysterious blue alien stuff.