Sunday, 21 November 2021

VOD: It Came From The Desert (dir: Marko Mäkilaakso, 2017)

"Trippy!  We just went from Jurassic Park to Aliens, dude!"

It Came From The Desert is an unpretentious and cheesy low-budget update of 1950s-style creature-features, which marries Them! with the joyous silliness of Eight-Legged Freaks and attempts to hit the dry humour of Tremors, as our two lead party dudes stumble into a seemingly long-abandoned test facility and unleash mayhem.  More cheap than cheerful, it takes its very-evident budget limitations and combines them with a recklessly ambitious enthusiasm (and some well-shot drone footage and half-decent CGI effects), making the film an acceptable watch for its presumably undemanding male adolescent target audience.

 

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