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  • Adaptation Displacement: Probably not many people are too aware Killdozer was based on a Theodore Sturgeon short story.
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: When the alien life force transfers from the meteor to the bulldozer, it 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 fries anybody ever again. How Kelly, who was sitting in the dozer at the time and thus in the same proximity as Mack, didn't also get zapped is never explained.
  • Special Effects Failure:
    • 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.
    • Dutch's death in particular highlights the lack of care put into the death scenes. As not only does he take a level up in stupidity, he flat out disappears when his jeep is crushed by the bulldozer. Not even a cheap dummy is used.
  • Spiritual Predecessor: To both The Car, another 1970s film about a supernatural-entity-possessed vehicle on a rampage, and to Maximum Overdrive, which takes this movie's premise up to eleven. It might even have inspired Stephen King to write this short story "Trucks", upon which the latter film is based.


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