It Came from the Desert poster

It Came from the Desert

2018 ·1h 30m · ★ 4.8 (73)

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!

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4 horror films in catalog

Horror DNA

Gore
Bloodless Splatterfest
57
Slow Burn
Shock-driven Slow burn
17
Psychological
Straightforward Mind-bending
0
Supernatural
Grounded Otherworldly
0
Creature
Human threats Monster-driven
100
Disturbing
Tame Deeply unsettling
17
Fun Factor
Deadly serious Blast to watch
100
Cerebral
Popcorn horror Thinking horror
0
Survival
No survival element Fight for your life
66
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Body Horror
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TMDB Keywords

based on video gamegiant antsgovernment secretsmeteor

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