It Came From the Desert: Mutant ant shocker is based on the popular 80’s video game

When it comes to mutant ants marauding across the desert and tearing up every human in sight, the champion horror movie is no doubt 1954’s Them! with Bert I. Gordon’s 1977’s Empire of the Ants a distant second. Now, a new film has creeped up which looks like an amalgam of Them! and the goofball 2002 giant spider stumper Eight Legged Freaks.

Finland’s Roger! Pictures partnered with US-based legendary game developer Cinemaware to produce a motion picture adaptation of the classic 80’s video game It Came From the Desert. The action-horror-comedy – which started filming in 2015 and has been long delayed –  about giant mutated ants which wreak havoc in the New Mexico desert, will be distributed via Raven Banner Entertainment and the studio has released it first official trailer.