Tread

Netflix Documentary 🎥 Review: “Tread”.

Critics gave it a 66% the users an 90%.

Rated: TV-14 with a 1 hr and 29 min run time and an IMDb of 7.2/10.

Pushed to his breaking point, a master welder quietly fortifies a bulldozer and systematically destroys numerous businesses and homes in the small mountain town of Granby, Colorado on June 4th 2004.

Marvin John Heemeyer (October 28, 1951 – June 4, 2004) was an American welder and an automobile muffler repair shop owner who demolished numerous buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby, Colorado on June 4, 2004. Heemeyer had feuded with Granby town officials, particularly over fines for violating city health ordinances when he chose to dump sewage from his business instead of installing a proper septic tank. His feud came to a head on June 4, 2004.

I remember when this hit the NEWS and it’s always stuck in my mind after it was reported over a decade ago.. So when I saw this on Netflix I just had to watch it because I was intrigued to learn more about what really happened. Coincidentally as this rampage was being discussed on the NEWS President Ronald Regan had died one day later, so media coverage of the rampage deceased.

"Tread" is the story of a mans revenge on the people of Granby CO. Marvin was a very talented welder and he used his skills to build a behemoth of a machine (bull dozed), very well amor plated and impenetrable to take revenge on the town’s businesses/people that he felt were out to get him. This is absolutely a true story and the film does a brilliant job at setting everything in motion, covering all sides of small town politics.

Let me say up front that no one was seriously hurt during his rampage so there is nothing you have to turn your head away from while watching it. The incredible act of destruction is captured with actual news footage and photographs. It'll give any action movie fan a rush. Do NOT let this documentary escape your attention.