It Came from the Desert

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!

Director

Marko Mäkilaakso

Written by

Marko Mäkilaakso, Hank Woon Jr, Trent Haaga

Produced by

Bob Portal, Inderpal Singh, Teemu Virta

Composer

Mika Mäkilaakso

Cinematographer

Juge Heikkilä

Editor

Joona Louhivuori

Makeup FX

Fatima Burgos, Sara Aniorte, Victor Alcalá

Sound Designer

Aleksi Tegel

Studios

Bufo, Cinemaware, Roger! Pictures

Origin countries

Canada, Finland, United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Language

en

TMDB

4.8/10 (73 votes)

Rotten Tomatoes

60% Fresh

IMDb

4.3/10 (1,964 votes)