Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams star in this sci-fi horror based on the Marvel Comics character. Journalist Eddie Brock (Hardy) is stuck in a professional rut and seeks out a story that will revive his career. When he starts investigating the survivalist group known as Life Foundation, Eddie finds himself face-to-face with a symbiotic alien which takes over his body. When Eddie discovers that the symbiote wishes to use his body as a vessel for committing murders on humans, he must try to escape its clutches in order to save his own life.