Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: ROLLING VENGEANCE
Added 2020-07-19 06:25:49 +0000 UTCWhat's better than getting revenge? Getting revenge with a big-ass monster truck! It's the 1987 movie "Rolling Vengeance"!
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Life imitating art? I wonder if Marvin Heemeyer ever saw Rolling Vengeance. There is a new documentary called TREAD about his modified-bulldozer-tank destroying half a Colorado town in 2004. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWSJ4_WtCoE Heemeyer's bulldozer was often nicknamed "Killdozer" in reference to the 1974 film (sorry TheKindlyOnes the inspiration re: Rolling Vengeance, if any, was the other way around). It's more likely that Rolling Vengeance was a darker interpretation of "Tank" (1984) starring James Garner, which has a very similar structure, a man fighting small-town corruption using his vintage Sherman tank. Side note: Brandon, I know you name-dropped Road House (I was thinking along similar lines, that Beatty's character could easily be seen hiring James Dalton as a bouncer). But did you also remember that there is a scene in Road House where a monster truck crushes cars at a dealer lot? Two years after Rolling Vengeance, and both are MGM pictures.
GadgetBlues
2020-07-21 07:39:22 +0000 UTCThe movie that inspired... KILLDOZER.
TheKindlyOnes
2020-07-19 11:29:47 +0000 UTC
