Virus (1999): Cast, Trivia, and the Making of a Sci-Fi Horror Cult Flick
Virus was released in January 1999, directed by John Bruno — a longtime visual effects artist who worked on The Abyss, True Lies, and Terminator 2.
The movie follows a salvage crew led by Captain Everton (Donald Sutherland) and Chief Engineer Kelly Foster (Jamie Lee Curtis). While stranded at sea during a typhoon, they discover a seemingly abandoned Russian research vessel. But as they soon learn, the ship isn’t empty — it’s been taken over by an alien energy force transmitted through space that turns machinery and human flesh into horrific hybrid cyborgs.
From there, it’s a battle for survival as the crew tries to destroy the alien intelligence before becoming part of its mechanical army.
It’s basically The Thing meets Terminator — set on a ghost ship.
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