Venom
“The world has enough superheroes.”
Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of Venom, a violent, super powerful alien symbiote. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organization looking for a symbiote of their own.
How Venom compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Venom, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 3
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 52%
- Share of the series audience
Venom (2018) is the highest-rated of the 3 rated films in the Venom series, at 6.8/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.7/10.
It is the film that started the series, 6 years before the most recent entry, Venom: The Last Dance (2024).
Its 17,562 TMDB ratings are 52% of the 33,472 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Venom, comparing all 3 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
Venom
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Venom is film 1 of 3. See the complete watch order.