Killdozer! (film)

Killdozer is a 1974 made for TV sciencefiction horror movie, adapted from a 1944 novella by Theodore Sturgeon. A comicbook adaptation appeared the same year, in Marvel Comics Worlds UnknownApril 1974.

Foreman Kelly Clint Walker and bulldozer driver Mack Robert Urich uncover the meteorite though they dont recognize what it is, which emits a strange sound. When the bulldozer a Caterpillar D9 in the movie, a Caterpillar D7 in the novella is used to try to shift the meteorite, it emits a blue light that moves to, and seems to possess, the bulldozer. Mack, standing nearby as this occurs, falls ill and then dies some hours later. Chub Neville Brand, the teams mechanic, cannot find anything wrong with the inoperative bulldozer, but can hear the odd sound from the blade. Kelly orders that the bulldozer not be used.Beltran James A. Watson, Jr. ignores the prohibition and starts the bulldozer, bringing it to malevolent life. It destroys the camps only twoway radio and begins a rampage, killing the workers one by one. It seems to run indefinitely in spite of a limited fuel capacity. The machine has some rudimentary intelligence and guile, and hunts down the men. ........

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