Ruben Fleischer's 2018 monster movie "Venom" is one of the stranger success stories of its era. The title character was originally conceived of as an "evil twin" character for Spider-Man, but the film doesn't feature Spider-Man at all. Also, the character is a very strange concept. A blob of living tar-like alien glop comes to Earth from space and promptly invades the bodies of potential human hosts. It ends up bonding with a disgraced reporter named Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), who is distressed that an alien is living inside his body. Eddie and the alien can communicate psychically, and when the alien becomes distressed, it can seep out through Eddie's skin and wrap itself around him like a gooey, bullet-proof suit of armor, with a big, toothy, shark-like monster face. It's all very weird.

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