The new Venom: Let There Be Carnage trailer really lives up to its name

Ruben Fleischer’s Venom was a surprise hit in 2018—the surprise coming from the fact that it wasn’t great, that it was a Spider-Man movie without Spider-Man, and that star Tom Hardy seemingly used the movie as an excuse to try out another weird and mumbly voice—and now a sequel is on the way from director Andy Serkis, who knows some things about CG creations like Venom. The sequel, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, will feature the big-screen debut of Carnage, the extremely edgy ‘90s comic book character who was introduced at the height of Venom’s popularity and is so hardcore that he makes a violent antihero like Venom look like a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man (and he makes a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man look like Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers in A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood). Where Venom has long black tentacles and frequently eats people, Carnage is a serial killer who likes to turn his tentacles into swords and axes and other weaponry.