Venom

While exploring space for new habitable worlds, a probe belonging to the bio-engineering corporation Life Foundation discovers a comet covered in symbiotic lifeforms. The probe returns to Earth with four samples, but one escapes and causes the ship to crash in Miri. The Life Foundation transports the other three to their research facility in San Francisco, where they discover that the symbiotes cannot survive without oxygen-breathing hosts, which often fatally reject the symbiosis. Investigative journalist Eddie Brock reads about the human trials in a classified document in the possession of his fiancée Anne Weying, an attorney preparing a lawsuit defense for the Life Foundation. Eddie confronts Life Foundation CEO Carlton Drake about the trials, leading to Eddie and Anne both losing their jobs and Anne ending her relationship with Eddie. Six months later, one of Drake's symbiotes dies due to carelessness. Eddie is approached by Dora Skirth, one of Drake's scientists, who wants to expose him, disturbed by the human trials. She helps Eddie break into the facility to search for evidence, and he finds his friend Maria, held as one of the test subjects. He attempts to rescue her, but the symbiote possessing her transfers to his body instead, leaving her dead. Eddie escapes, immediately displaying strange symptoms. He reaches out to Anne and her new boyfriend, Dr. Dan Lewis for help. Due to Skirth's betrayal, Drake exposes her to the last captive symbiote, killing both. This leaves the symbiote inside Eddie as the only known surviving specimen. Drake sends mercenaries to retrieve the symbiote from Eddie, but it manifests around his body as a monstrous creature that fights off the attackers. It introduces itself to Eddie as Venom and explains that the comet is searching for worlds where the symbiotes can possess and devour the inhabitants. Eddie breaks into his old boss' office to turn in evidence of Drake's crimes but is surrounded by SWAT officers. He escapes using the superhuman attributes the symbiote gives him. Anne takes Eddie to Dan, where they explain that the symbiote is rotting Eddie's internal organs. Eddie notes that the symbiote has two weaknesses: high-pitched noises and fire. Although Venom claims the organ damage can be reversed, Anne uses an MRI machine to separate him from Eddie, whom Drake's men then capture. Meanwhile, the fourth symbiote, Riot, makes its way from Malaysia to San Francisco by hopping from body to body. It bonds with Drake, who agrees to take Riot in his space probe to bring back the rest of the symbiotes to Earth. Anne bonds with Venom so they can free Eddie. When Eddie and Venom are bonded again, the latter promises that he now wants to protect the Earth from his kind as he likes Eddie and wants to stay with him. After a lengthy battle with Riot, Venom damages the space probe as it takes off, causing it to explode and kill both Riot and Drake. After the incident, Eddie returns to journalism, while Anne believes that Venom also died in the explosion. However, the pair remain secretly bonded and set out to protect San Francisco by devouring criminals. Eddie later interviews Cletus Kasady, an incarcerated serial killer who promises "carnage" when he escapes.

Plot from Venom (2018 film)CC BY-SA 4.0