Sony Pictures has released a new featurette for Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which highlights the villain Frances Barrison/Shriek (Naomie Harris), as well as her twisted romance with Cletus Kasady/Carnage (Woody Harrelson).
The featurette was posted to the official Venom Twitter account with the caption, “Warning: you’ll want headphones on when you’re around her. Meet Shriek…”
“In this film, we meet Shriek,” Let There Be Carnage director Andy Serkis says in the video. Harris herself then describes the Marvel character’s powers, saying, “Shriek has the ability to suck up sound and use it as a weapon.” Serkis adds, “She can be really dangerous. So, she’s been kept in a box at Ravencroft for 25 years.”
Regarding Shriek’s relationship with Let There Be Carnage‘s titular villain, Harris says, “She only cares about one human being, and that’s Cletus.” Serkis elaborates, “She’s twisted like Cletus. They’ll do anything to come back together.” Harris concludes the featurette by explaining that Shriek and Carnage are “so much fun and incredibly terrifying” together.
Created by Venom co-creator David Michelinie alongside Erik Larsen, Cletus Kasady first appeared in Marvel Comics’ Amazing Spider-Man #344, cover-dated March 1991. Cletus’ partner in crime, Carnage, was created by Michelinie and Mark Bagley, making his first full appearance in 1992’s Amazing Spider-Man #361. Created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Lim, Shriek came into the picture the following year, debuting in 1993’s Spider-Man Unlimited #1.
In the original comics, Shriek is a mutant who gained the ability to manipulate sound after being exposed to Cloak’s Darkforce Dimension. In addition to being able to use sound as a concussive weapon, she can use it to disorient her adversaries. Shriek also possesses a few psychic abilities, such as emotional manipulation and mild levitation.
A murderous power couple of sorts, Carnage and Shriek famously ran roughshod over the Marvel Universe alongside their “children” — Doppelganger, Demogoblin and Carrion — during the 14-part “Maximum Carnage” crossover storyline in 1993. While Carnage’s so-called “sons” actually hated him, they stayed in the group out of their devotion to Shriek. Still, infighting among this twisted “family” proved to be its undoing.
The sequel to 2018’s Venom, Let There Be Carnage rejoins Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) as he struggles to adjust to his new life as Venom’s host. Eddie attempts to get back into the journalism game by interviewing infamous serial killer Cletus Kasady. Things go awry for Eddie when Kasady breaks out of prison, having bonded to Venom’s spawn, Carnage.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage opens in movie theaters in the United States on Oct. 1.
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