FilmComedy Horror Sci-Fi Horror Monster & Creature

It Came from the Desert2018

Name: It Came from the Desert
Genre: Comedy Horror, Sci-Fi Horror, Monster & Creature, Classic Monsters
Released: 2018-09-07
Rating: 4.9

“Get ready to scream”

Directed by Marko Mäkilaakso

4.9

Crypt Score

Blended from 3 sources

IMDb 4.3Rotten Tomatoes 60%TMDB 4.8

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Year

2018

Runtime

90 min

Box Office

Budget

$731,000

🏆 4 nominations

The premise

New Mexico, present day. Brian and Lukas are off to the desert to join a kegger party and to celebrate Lukas’ victory in a motocross competition. His winning prize includes meeting The Deathinator, the biggest action star in the world. The party gets started under the hot desert sun, but Brian isn’t in the mood, so he wanders off and is soon joined by his friend, Lukas. They discover something strange in the desert which leads them into a secret military laboratory, where they discover the disturbing truth of what the government has been doing. Secret experiments on ants and spiders using DNA found in a meteorite which fell to Earth in 1951 has given birth to mutated giant ants which have overrun the facility. Now, it's up to Brian and Lukas to save the world from a giant ant invasion!

Horror Vault's take

When two buddies head to a desert rager to celebrate a motocross win, their weekend takes a sharp detour into chaos after a chance discovery beneath the sands. A secret military lab harboring the results of decades-old experiments becomes ground zero for a very big, very angry infestation. Rooted in the spirit of 1950s creature-feature classics, this video game adaptation cranks up the giant-ant mayhem with a knowing wink and plenty of B-movie bravado. Strap in — saving the world was never on the party agenda.

Content: Creature Violence, Mild Gore, Crude Humor