Without getting too deep into the backstory of Cletus Kasady, there are some tragedies in his past that certainly have turned him into the brutal serial killer that he is in Venom and its sequel, Venom: Let There Be Carnage. So when he’s paired with a symbiote, like the one that bonds with Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), it brings out the darkest aspects of his soul, the ones that have been soiled by misfortune. The movie doesn’t dig nearly as deep as Natural Born Killers does… and doesn’t have an axe to grind with the media. But it’s impossible to see Woody Harrelson playing a killer and not think of Stone’s vicious satire.
