Gamers from the late ’80s and early ’90s may have fond memories of spending countless hours battling massive insects in the Cinemaware video game It Came from the Desert. Featuring motocross stunts, giant ants, and a potent blend of horror and humor, the film adaptation of the 1989 video game is out today on digital platforms from The Orchard, and we caught up with co-writer/director Marko Mäkilaakso in our latest Q&A feature to discuss the making of his modern-day creature feature.
Thanks for taking the time to answer questions for us, Marko! Your new movie It Came from the Desert is inspired by the 1980s video game of the same name. Do you have a nostalgic connection to that game?
Marko Mäkilaakso: My pleasure! Yes, when the first game came out in Finland where I grew up, me and my friends spent hours and hours in front of the...
Thanks for taking the time to answer questions for us, Marko! Your new movie It Came from the Desert is inspired by the 1980s video game of the same name. Do you have a nostalgic connection to that game?
Marko Mäkilaakso: My pleasure! Yes, when the first game came out in Finland where I grew up, me and my friends spent hours and hours in front of the...
- 5/29/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
There really is not a whole lot we have to say about the Finnish creature feature It Came From the Desert. After a couple proofs of concept came out Canadian outfit Raven Banner jumped on board to help get it out into the world and now the official trailer is here! It Came From The Desert is an adaptation of a 1989 video game and is directed by filmmaker Marko Mäkilaakso who made War of the Dead, which was not the most favorite thing I saw on the festival circuit that year, but it is hard to screw up giant ants. Mäkilaakso directed and co-wrote with Hank Woon (Age of Dinosaurs) and Trent Haaga (68 Kill). Roger! Picture’s Teemu Virta and Alliance Media...
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- 5/15/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Busta took on twerking (it was actually pretty great!) and now he's upping his old-school-crew game — enlisting Lil Wayne, Kanye West, and Q-Tip to join him on "Thank You," a song that celebrates good samples and cool dudes hanging out: "Legendary swag flu and see the influence, see how we do it." The song will appear on Busta's Extinction Level Event 2 next year, and in your playlist, today.
- 11/8/2013
- by Lindsey Weber
- Vulture
If you've happened to stumble across it on your Netflix selections, Age Of Dinosaurs has all the ingredients for a "do not stream." The cover art looks like an 8th grade Photoshop job, the rating is 2 1/2 stars, and there's a big Asylum tag right at the beginning of the film. That being said, I'd watch it again.
The story opens up with an operating room in which a doctor is monitoring an IV drip containing an unidentified yellow substance (likely urine) hooked up to a Komodo Dragon. From here we meet the science-loving goon who thinks everything needs "more time" and the military type roughneck who presses onward to disastrous results...so you probably know what's going to happen. They talk back and forth and all the sudden someone wheels in a dinosaur recreated with genetic flesh (which you find out later but it still won't make sense) and they...
The story opens up with an operating room in which a doctor is monitoring an IV drip containing an unidentified yellow substance (likely urine) hooked up to a Komodo Dragon. From here we meet the science-loving goon who thinks everything needs "more time" and the military type roughneck who presses onward to disastrous results...so you probably know what's going to happen. They talk back and forth and all the sudden someone wheels in a dinosaur recreated with genetic flesh (which you find out later but it still won't make sense) and they...
- 7/31/2013
- by Mick Joest
- GeekTyrant
Treat Williams barely survived carnivorous sea monsters in Deep Rising and Ronny Cox famously fell victim to Robocop. Together they will now face a prehistoric threat reborn when bioengineered dinos threaten to transform Los Angeles into a new Age of Dinosaurs.
Using breakthrough flesh-regeneration technology, a biotech firm creates a set of living dinosaurs. But when the creatures escape their museum exhibit and terrorize Los Angeles, a former firefighter must rescue his teenage daughter from the chaos brought on by the Age of Dinosaurs.
I’m going to take a wild guess and speculate that Treat Williams plays the former firefighter and Ronny Cox is cast as the hard ass head of the flesh-regeneration technology, because who better to play the executive officer of a corporation that suffers the consequences when playing God than Robocop’s boss?
Jillian Rose Reed (My Super Psycho Sweet Sixteen: Part 3 and “Weeds”) and actor-stuntman Max Aria co-star.
Using breakthrough flesh-regeneration technology, a biotech firm creates a set of living dinosaurs. But when the creatures escape their museum exhibit and terrorize Los Angeles, a former firefighter must rescue his teenage daughter from the chaos brought on by the Age of Dinosaurs.
I’m going to take a wild guess and speculate that Treat Williams plays the former firefighter and Ronny Cox is cast as the hard ass head of the flesh-regeneration technology, because who better to play the executive officer of a corporation that suffers the consequences when playing God than Robocop’s boss?
Jillian Rose Reed (My Super Psycho Sweet Sixteen: Part 3 and “Weeds”) and actor-stuntman Max Aria co-star.
- 1/7/2013
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
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