Under en kraftig storm kommer bogserfartyget Sea Star i kontakt med ett övergivet ryskt forskningsfartyg som de planerar att bogsera i land för en belöning. Det visar sig dock att en främmande livsform har tagit över skeppet, och vem som helst av dem kan bli nästa offer.
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- Richard19 oktober 2025I bought this as a bargain DVD, and the premise had me hooked: a sentient alien energy hijacks a Russian research vessel and starts turning humans into biomechanical nightmares. Jamie Lee Curtis leads the cast with solid genre grit, joined by Donald Sutherland doing his best “grizzled captain with questionable motives” routine. The ship is dark, dripping and full of corridors that scream “don’t go in there.” The creature effects are practical and gnarly, metal fused with flesh, wires snaking through torsos and cyborg monstrosities that feel like leftover nightmares from Event Horizon. It’s got atmosphere, ambition and a few genuinely creepy moments. But the pacing stumbles, the dialogue leans into cliché and the characters often feel like they’re waiting for the next jump scare. It could’ve become so much more, a proper techno horror franchise, maybe even a cult classic. But it fizzled. I liked the concept and the execution in parts. It’s the kind of movie that made adult years feel grimy, tense and full of missed potential, with just enough mechanical menace to earn a spot on the shelf.
- SaturnFoxDie21 augusti 2025This movie is still amazing. Great prop work, even the CG mostly holds up. Excellent premise, the Vandenberg ship is beautiful as well. A young Curtis is HOT and talented, all the others are top notch too. All the robotic corpses are bloody awesome. All in all, excellent movie.
- Julie Jones25 januari 2026Wow. It was a struggle to my attention span to watch this movie. It doesn't make any sense. Basically we have a group of people who are trapped on a ship, they are being slowly hunted down by robotic creatures intent on assimilating them! I would not bother watching this movie
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Virus was released on 15 januari 1999.
Virus was directed by John Bruno.
Virus has a runtime of 1h 40m.
Virus was produced by Gale Anne Hurd.
Under en kraftig storm kommer bogserfartyget Sea Star i kontakt med ett övergivet ryskt forskningsfartyg som de planerar att bogsera i land för en belöning. Det visar sig dock att en främmande livsform har tagit över skeppet, och vem som helst av dem kan bli nästa offer.
The key characters in Virus are Kelly Foster (Jamie Lee Curtis), Steve Baker (William Baldwin), Captain Robert Everton (Donald Sutherland).
Virus is rated 15.
Virus is a Skräck, Action, Science Fiction film.
Virus has an audience rating of 2.2 out of 10.
Virus had a budget of 75 mn US$.
Virus has made 30,7 mn US$ at the box office.