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The biggest movie trailers for the first week of June

We are Venom! | Screenshot: YouTube

My favorite trailers for this week share a common theme: parasitic aliens. The trope has given us some of the finest moments in cinema history; consider the whole Alien franchise, the horrifying dog transformation in The Thing, or that scene from Spaceballs. You could make a convincing argument that Star Trek’s Borg race are parasites of a kind, too.

It’s a versatile premise that lets a movie be as heady or grotesque or action-packed as its creators want. And two of sci-fi’s most beloved fictional freeloaders are showing up this week.

Venom: The Last Dance

Okay, so Venom is a symbiote that resents being called a parasite, but that’s still basically what it is. In the case of Venom and Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock, though, the two are more…

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