VIRUS (Alien Hive Intelligence, Cyborgs + Ending) EXPLAINED
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- Hey guys what’s happening? Niyat here with film comics explained. As voted for by everyone in the latest poll, today we’ll be exploring Virus - The 1999 sci-fi horror based on the 1992 Dark Horse Comic of the same name written by Chuck Pfarrer and drawn by Howard Cobb.
After losing their payload, the crew of a battered salvage tug-boat decide to take refuge in the eye of a typhoon and use the short time to make repairs.
Discovering a foreign science vessel adrift nearby, the crew think that their troubles are over - with the bounty from salvaging the ghost ship about to set them all up for life. Unfortunately, when they restore power to the ship, they awaken a strange extra-terrestrial that was far more dangerous than the storm they hoped to avoid.
Featuring a mixture of elements borrowed from Alien, The Thing, The Terminator, ghost ship fables, and the zombie genre at large, Chuck had originally pitched Virus as a movie script, but decided to sell it as a comic book first.
The story revolves around an alien life form that takes over a Navy research vessel and reconfigures it-using both the damaged electronics and the dead bodies of the crew to propagate itself by making cyborgs.
Dark Horse loved the series so much that they published it in TPB format twice, paving the way for the 1999 adaptation directed by visual effects artist John Bruno.
Starring William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Cliff Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis, much like the comic, the film revolves around a naval vessel under the influence of an extra-terrestrial hoping to enslave humanity.
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This movie traumatized me as a kid. I saw it when I was nine or ten years old, and didn’t know what it was called. I would tell people about a movie where robots take apart people and use them for parts, and there was a scene with a torso sitting up on a table. No one knew what I was talking about and I thought I was going insane. It wasn’t until I was in college when I saw the DVD in a used movie store and finally realized it actually existed. I now own that DVD as proof.
ME TOOOOOOO.
Me too! I only saw a few minutes of it but recognized it immediately. Might have to give it another chance.
I have a similar memory with a different movie. There's a scene where a cop knocks on the door and the whole family goes to the door to let the cop in the house, but they forget they have the baby in the bathtub and it drowns.
No idea what the movie is just remember that one scene. I remember it because it traumatized me..
@@itsmers The Adventures of Milo and Otis.
💯 this is second only to predator
Whenever I imagine the Adeptus Mechanicus, this movie comes to mind.
When watching this review i was also reminded of them. One of the robots reminded me of servo-skulls.
Right? Haha
And servators
Yes! It would fit so well! To REALLY go down the rabbit-hole, part of this could be used for a prequel to Warhammer 40k.! Like I heard somewhere that Event Horizon IS a prequel to Warhammer 40k. This could be worked with, so it can be a part of the Golden/Dark Age of Technology. It would be interesting to see what Belasarious Caul would think of this "virus"! What would this do to, like, the Void Dragon, locked up on Mars? What would the encounter be like, between THIS, and The Necrons? We're already in bat-s%#@ territory, so, why not!
@@marystone860 While it's not technically a prequel, Event Horizon is pretty close to 40K's lore on both The Warp and intersteller travel, with both using wormholes to slingshot through Hell.
The Admech would see the machines of Virus as xeno AI, which is heretical of the highest calibre. To the admech, flesh is weak, but having your flesh stolen by a sentient AI is heresy. Having your flesh stolen by an ALIEN AI is even worse. What's terrifying is the admech would be a lot like Everton. They'd do those "improvements" themselves.
I love how Donald Sutherland said 'I'll do this 12 hour makeup process *once.*' and that's why his scene was so short, they only got one day of shooting with him all cyborged
Sucks.I would have loved to see more of him in that form.
12 fucking hours? Yeah I would have said no the first time.
I'll take it
RUBBISH ALL RUBBISH. I laughed hard at his comment true canadian
Still nailed it
The effects used in this movie is incredible and still looks quite good even with today's standards. The story is also fresh and I love it back then even now.
I completely agree. The film’s visual effects are quite good. I love how they tastefully combined practical effects with CGI.
Well its complete wobbly shit but interesting
Only a pre-2000 comic would consider a floppy disk adequate to store the entirety of a malevolent intelligence and sturdy enough to survive in the ocean.
Maybe it had good compression algorithms lol
@@jayburn00😂
This movie is very underrated!
I liked it very much!
Jaimie Lee Curtis actually regrets being in this movie, as she revealed in later interviews while promoting her new Halloween movie.
Ah.
I heard that about Jaimie Lee Curtis, too. Shame because she really played her roll well.
I love all the actors and the rolls they played, but, my guilty pleasure is Everton. Just something about him willingly becoming a cyborg.
What happened to him in the "transformation" process? Did he just get his head pulled off and reattached to another body, while alive? Scream in pain?
So many questions
You liking a bad movie doesn't make it underrated
@@robirvine6970 people thought john carpenters "the Thing" was a "bad movie" when it came out to.
I am not saying virus is the same caliber. But there is alot of good stuff in it. Sad that they did not do more with the ip, the premise makes for awesome horror.
@@TheHungrySlug they played "roles", not rolls.
I watched this movie late night once when I was like twelve. Ever since it's been one of my favorites. It's kind of a perfect mix of action and horror and I love how it's not exactly like any other story. Thanks for covering this one FCE, keep being legendary!
I still have two movies rolling around in my brain that I wish I could place
@@RachelG1979 discribe them. I bet all these movie fans can help
@@louis5362 the first one is an animated cartoon where some kind of stuffed animal and it's trying to find the end of the world and when he gets there it's like a desert area and it's huge wooden horse. that's all I can remember is him going out into the desert and finding this massive horse. It tries talking to it but it's an inanimate object.
@@louis5362 the second one is like a blob thing came from space into this kid's home and at one point it killedI all of his family and it could imitate them and so the kid went into the bedroom and they were all five or six his family members were laying in the bed together but they were really just portions of the blob thing turning into them and it wasn't the movie The Blob
That movie is called terrorvision
This is one movie I would actually LOVE to see a remake of. The practical effects of the time were so sick, and I think that doing them again and also using some subtle CG to enhance the practical effects to make the movements not so clunky would look incredible. Also, revamping the story to strengthen some of the weaker parts and make it even better. Modern bio-mechanical body horror and an incredible sci-fi story combined is exactly what we need right now.
I totally agree with you. However we all know that they would just stuff it with a bunch of lesbians and some message about how climate change is racist.
Agreed
Idk, I think the clunky movements added to the creepiness of the cyborgs.
I think too much CGI wouldn't be good. The models make it a lot more creepy. Nearly forgot about the movie
Like The Thing prequel...which was terrible.
When I saw this as a teen I loved this! I remember thinking it was a shame there wasn't a game based on it, like an RE inspired survival horror.
I think there was a game based on the movie for ps1
Retro futuristic game is based in this Quake 4 the AI uses the human body in disturbing ways just like the movie except in space
@@teemujarvenpaa6175 there was you can look up here on TH-cam
There is a game about it. I heard it was shit tho lol
There was a game which was released on the PS2 around the same time that RE4 was released by the name of Cold Fear which I think was partly inspired by this movie. It’s a bit of a forgotten gem. Strongly recommend playing it if you are a fan of survival horror games and sci-fi horror.
The movie ship carries the name of the first man to die from falling from outerspace (Vladislav Volkov). I always figured it was symbolic for the fact that what comes down to earth, from space, may be a gruesome death to the unfortunate soul caught by it. Vladislav's fate was terrifying in both stories.
What started as a dream, ended a nightmare.
I cannot imagine the brass balls it must have taken to be one of the first few people in history to 'touch the face of God'.
Yuri Gagarin had ticker tape parades throughout Eurasia; to celebrate the achievement of the USSR and Humanity, the winning of the 'Space Race'. But there was such a cost of life. And it often, was not quick.
Pretty sure you are thinking of Vladimir Komarov pilot of the Soyuz 1(1967) who was the first person to die in a space flight. The fortitude Komarov exhibited on that doomed flight was nearly superhuman, so many things went wrong it's impressive he was able to even attempt reentry. The parachutes on the capsule failed and Komarov was hurtling towards the ground fully aware. Supposedly he was able to talk to his wife one last time and went down cursing the engineers, flight staff, and admin who had dismissed his concerns over design flaws in the months leading up to the launch.
Vladislav Volkov and his 2 crewmembers were the first and so far only people to die prior to reentering the atmosphere. The Soyuz 11(1971) was found to have a faulty valve that opened just before leaving orbit causing the crew to die of asphyxiation while still in space.
One guy falls in an accident and dies instantly and suddenly everything from space travel to Russia is evil.
@@acatwithayoutubechannel8354 no, it was the Space Race, not the Moon Race. The USSR won the Space Race, but after that sprint, the USA continued a marathon to the moon. Possibly humanity's greatest achievement (so far). But the USSR dominated in every other aspect. There are photos taken from the surface of Venus, likely before you were born thanks to them.
@@IW3527 Yeah, it's the latter you are correct
I have always wanted a game with the setting and monsters of the Virus movie. Quake 4 came close but where "too clean" for a lack of better words. It never had the delightfully disgusting designs of corpse meat incorporated with metal bits and bobs and bare-bone electronics.
Imagine; having unwilling individuals captured and subjected to the "procedure" would add a different type of horror - a horrific amalgamation of scrap and rot, out to brutalize you, while begging you to end their suffering, while having no control over their actions.
…ever heard of “System Shock?”
@@monoclecoyote Yeah. SS1 was too oldschool, even for me, could barely play it.
But SS2 was my main game for a while, ngl. But that was more alien/body horror.
Steel harbinger on ps1 had very similar vibes
Eh hem virus it's aware video game
@@TroySinclair-k1k Yes, Im aware (heh) of that old game, but the controls and graphics are horrible, and haven't aged one bit with grace. Not to mention, watching up the gameplay, it fuqqing SUCKS!
As a kid I loved this movie.
Had no idea it was a comic - good find man! Going to check it out now.
This is one of these movies where a lot of the actors were just working for a paycheck to pay off a house or a yacht.
You're everywhere.
@@ptolemeeselenion1542 yep the world wide internet.
None of these actors could afford a yatch
Yep this is a true guilty pleasure of a movie for me as well as the actors I am sure!
I honestly feel this movie is underrated! The visual effects and animatronic design are top class and are a prime example of how you make a comic adaptation into a movie
"channeling his giga-chad energy"
lines like that is why I love these videos
Love this film! It's part of my 3 fun horror faves. Virus, Deep Rising and Event horizon.
Check out Leviathan from 89.
This movie very much nails the 'Flesh is Weak' Warhammer 40k aesthetic of the Iron Hands and Mechanicus.
Oh, Yeah! Also, with The Necrons!
@@marystone860 Necrons are a lot more like Terminators mixed with ancient Egypt.
They would take one look at the servitors and the alien AI and then order this ship blown into disintegration for being desecrated and infested.
No wonder I loved this movie as a Kid!
I didn't like this one when I first saw it, but as time has gone by, it's grown on me. Jamie Lee is always awesome, and the practical effects are great. One of those movies that just takes time to fully appreciate.
This movie is underrated AF! Definitely gave me video game (Resident Evil) story vibes when it released! Best way I can describe it is John Carpenter's The Thing on a ship! Also the practical effects are a plus and the CGI does hold up well!
I write about an electrically based life form all the time, and this movie always holds a special place in my heart. And that synthetic line "Check. Mate." is so haunting, I love it!
I think, it aslo a reference to the first biengs it came to contact with were the astronauts who were playing a simple game of chess, so that a nice call back to the beginning
Maybe it was also a reference to the fact that supercomputers of the time could not win over humans in chess.
And now ChatGPT can write code. Crazy.
Ahh good old fashioned practical effects, and sets. Things you just don't see enough of these days.
Criminally underrated, but such a great gem. The comic is somewhat obscure.
I watched this as a kid and it's been on my mind for the better part of 2 decades
That haunting scream from the main machine computer. A guy getting a hole punched through his stomach. A brain with a creepy skull and claws suddenly coming to life. The workshop scene with all the body parts.
Yeah no wonder I turned out so fucked up. I saw this when I was about 12 lmao
I don't understand why so many people hate this movie.
I remember renting this movie when it first came out on VHS thanks for another outstanding video 🙂
Ah yes vhs one of those things that kids nowadays have no idea what it is
@@jamesonweimann4720 The good old days!😁👍
@@soulreaver1983 I was born in the 80’s and grew up in the 90’s so I remember the transition between vhs and dvd
@@jamesonweimann4720 Me too they were some of the best years of my life 😎👍
just turned midnight in my area (uk) when this vid was uploaded. great start to the day lol
This film was amazing. The practical effects were so far ahead of its time. Man I loved when movie makers just made movies. Now we just have remakes and super pumped movies like MCU.
I'm glad to see this movie get some coverage as its quite underrated. The concept of cybernetic zombies like these is super intriguing. It does deserve a remake as the designs of the cyborg zombies is stunning but sadly its too dark to see them in full view. I do hope this concept gets pushed more seeing possibly more creatures getting this meat-sack robot treatment and crude or ramshackle robot intergration. It reminds me of the game SOMA just without the techno-organic part to it.
I saw this in the theater and I thouroughly enjoyed it. And I thought the cast of characters & actors were all fantastic. I was a bit disappointed that it bombed in the theaters and I've been trying to tell people of its existence ever since. I'm so thrilled that it is getting a bit more attention, though not nearly as much as it truly deserves, imho.
This ship use to be in the US Navy's James River mothball fleet before it was sunk to create an artificial reef. I remember seeing it in person going out boating on the James River after it's use in this movie. It still sported the white paint with the Cyrillic letters on it. I believe it was the USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg.
I was just thinking about this movie yesterday, I remember watching it on Cinecanal and Discovery Channel show how they made the props for it
I loved this Movie as a Teenager, I remember that Discovery Channel show got in trouble I think because it showed some of the Animatronics before the Movie ever came out
Yep, Movie Magic. The days before special features.
I really wanna see the alien from Virus fight The Thing. It would be sick as hell to watch to almost unstoppable assimilating extraterrestrials throw hands or tendrils
Tyranid vs adeptus
the pair clash for about a minute before a pack of fully Machine V-units come in flames raging or V pretends to lose and when T makes a spaceship/skimmer thing it takes control and murderizes T in a crash
I actually loved this film. The concept was amazing. It might do better with a remake/reboot, provided writing is good and it’s rated r with practical effects, etc.
What I wouldn’t want is the thing 2011. Absolute garbage…
I would a like a sequel instead with more world building.
@@tristanbackup2536 yeah. That would be a good idea too. Provided it was rated r with more practical effects.
[Aliens/Dead Space] What If Xenomorphs Were In Dead Space Video Game Series
I'm trying to imagine Clark's reaction to seeing an alien fighting a nercomorph
@NOMSI4 it called Xenomorphs and that the name of their race
They'll get fucked by the hunter
@@edpadilla9402 I know, but not gonna lie. I still can't spell that shit 😂
There was a movie in the 80's I believe where it is kind of the same thing. It is on the moon or something. I only saw it once but it reminds me a lot of it. I think it maybe Dark Side of the Moon. Movie, not the album of course. I just really remember the last scene of the movie. They are a tent and a robotic hybrid tears the tent open. Hope someone can remember the movie I am talking about.
Moontrap starring Walter Koenig.
Movies like this always make me deeply appreciate practical effects. Even if the movie itself is silly or the acting is bad, good effects makeup and props can save it.
I saw this movie in the cinema back when it was first released. I absolutely loved the concept of this film and I had no idea it was a comic before being turned into a movie. Now I’m super intrigued in seeing the differences between the comic and film. Thank you so much for covering Virus and as always I look forward to seeing more of your videos!
Oh man! What an overlooked gem! Thanks my man!
This reminded me of the film "Screamers" from 1995. You should take a look at that one.
Underrated gem of a movie.
You know, this never scared me when I watched it. But now it is giving me nostalgia over how The Runaway scared the hell out of me as a kid. Robo spiders with acid needles and setting fire to the bodies...
I had this film on VHS as a child and its still on of all all Time favorites. I had no clue it was based off a comic!
Also the "Touch it again and I'll cut your hands off" line still makes me aught today ^.^
I was obsessed with this movie and quoted it a bunch.
This movie needs a part 2
This movie had such an excellent high concept if only it could've delivered on its promise it could've been epic....this is the kinda movie that you can dare to remake.
Should’ve mentioned the video game version, where the ending showed the satellite station being in the same state as the ship with flesh cover all over it.
People shit on this movie a lot, but we don't get a lot of good technohorror. Used to be we had all sorts of killer robot movies in the 80's, but only Virus truly explores the bodyhorror element of forced cyborgization really well. Nowadays, technohorror is all "there's spoopy stuff in my social media". Oh, how truly terrifying.
The type of VHS movie that stays in good condition full of dust 😢
Virus and Event Horizon are my favorite 90's sci-fi horror movies.
1:45 that's literally just a servator from Warhammer 40k
Maybe the virus is a former Man of Iron, or a Chaos Daemon? Definitely an Abominable Intelligence. :P
Its like Event Horizon meets Dead Space meets Star Treks Borg. Love this movie.
Such a good and creepy idea, using humans as building material. Dead Space before Dead Space
My dad and I watched this when it was on TV, when I was 11 or something. I'm actually nostalgic for the nightmares 😅
Loved this movie, being an MTG player back in the day I always thought this was the best depiction of Phyrexians possible LOL
Literally just watched this the other day
wow these creature designs are absolutely INSANE, how have I never heard of this movie before?
This movie has always been one of my guilty pleasures. Underrated in my opinion. :P
Honestly I really love to admit that I really love this movie, because there isn't too many horror movies nowadays that are based on robots except for Sci-Fi movies.
This movie and Ghost Ship (the one with the reaper and the gold) are two movies that I remember watching before I probably should have 😄
Now I really want to go back and rewatch them!
And Deep Rising
This was a great movie. I definitely need to re-watch it.
I saw, this movie when I was a kid, freaked me the hell out. Especially the scene, were the machines are taking human limbs off and adding machine components to make cyborgs.
Another good movie, you should cover is Oblivion - with Tom Cruise, loved that Movie.
For me, this movie was just the 2nd part to the 1988s movie: Moontrap with Walter König.
Basically, they took that concept and turned it up to 11.
This is definitely the inspiration for the Singularity.
The game "Soma" reminds me of this movie, and I love it.
My favorite part is when the one cyborg dude busts open a wall and says "steve" in the most nonchelant voice ever before everyone lights him up
Good movie right here ❤
A great breakdown as always. While I do remember this movie and normally love these types of films I feel this one did miss the mark given who makes up the cast it is quite surprising. I feel the script not only couks have been a bit better but also given the time this film was done that the practical effects were too ambitious given the little cyborgs look like tinker toys and the combination human/cyborg effects just feel short. The story could have been improved from the standpoint of adding more terror by removing the guns that the crew had taking away the crews ability to fight better. But also changing up how the crew get there, having the ship they salvage not only sinking but also the vessel they were on, making the Russian vessel the only way they xan survive. Another element would have been to lessen the number of small robotic creatures and to only have the one large cyborg but lessens the human/cyborg. The other big part I would have taken out is the character Nydia not in that she was bad but it would have been better for the crew to slowly uncover the mystery of what happened to the Russian vessel and come to the conclusion of we need thus ship to stay alive but the vessel has to be destroyed because if it reachs port than the world is a risk from this alien life form.
This movie creeped me out as much as Event Horizon. That's saying something!
"Channeling his GigaChad energy"... best line in this review.
I’m so happy I’m not the only one who likes this movie! Smart and creepy. I wear my love for this film on my sleeve lol no regrets
I loved this movie as a kid, I even had the figure of the big monster 😆
It's so funny how all the millennials my age who I know have never seen all these awesome old movies. I was scared shitless of this but love it to this day.
Love the video can you do the Galactic empire from star wars legends
Adding it to the list! Thanks :)
the movie is great, i like the practical effects of the cyborgs a lot
This movie should be considered a classic by now. Really like Jamie Lee's character in this one.
I was just talking about this movie with a friend the other day. Not a classic, but a solid genre flick with some great practical effects.
still one of my favourite films massively underrated along with deep rising
Reminds me of that Doom Inspiered game. Systemshock.
An evil aI makes the crew to cyborgs. And yes. The AI is actually evil. Her face looks like Medusa and also Queen of blades from Starcraft 1 and 2.
There is also System Shock 2 that looks like half live 1.
And they just made System Shock 3.
Not shure how that whent.
I've been trying to find the name of this movie for god knows how long, I remember when I was a kid watching part of this movie and being freaked the hell out and when I grew up all I wanted to do was watch the full movie
Star Trek was sci fi - this is a goddamn horror movie!
The acting was phenomenal, the plot was perfection.👌
I felt the fear and revulsion suddenly resurface just before I clicked on the video reigniting the trauma I didn't know had imprinted itself onto my teenage mind.
This was one of the best movies I've ever seen - and hats off to Joanna Pacula. She sold the role of Nadia.
I loved the practical effects in this film we need this again for horror films
Honestly one of my favorite movies and I always imagined a sequel where it built a water proof body using the explosion as cover to escape becoming a cyborg dolphin of sorts or what became of the humans on the space station.
I really need to give this comic a watch. Dark Horse rarely has any bad books as far as I can tell.
A floppy disk floating in all that salt water? Virus is good as dead for sure.
This is the kind of vote I can get behind. No mudslinging. No politics. Just a guarantee of solid content regardless of the winner.
I've been waiting so long for this, thank you so much
One of my favorite movies of all tine
You should cover Screamers. Another underrated, machine, horror movie.
1:45 looked like a servo skull from 40k
I freaking loved this movie and would watch it almost every day! Great explanation! Now I’m going to rewatch again 😊
Thanks for putting me on this movie just watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Wicked piece of film here buddy. One of my all time fave due to the super freaky nature of it all.
Excellent movie and review. Been waiting for you to cover this one for a while!
Snuck into this movie when i was 13, it scared the hell out of me and it still sits as one of those movies that scares me to this day. Something about it just hits a fear for me. Maybe its cause i like cybernetics but something about this shows how dark it could go.
I've been looking for this movie forever. I just remember the TV ad for it scared me as a kid and I always wanted to find it and watch it. Thanks!
Virus and THE THING haunted me when i was a just a child...like jesus i couldnt sleep for 2 days
I feel this movie is the best depiction of the borg from star Trek
Love the content dude keep it up 👍