YMMV / Truth in Journalism

• Awesome Music: Glenn Frey's "You Belong To The City" fits amazingly well.
• Continuity Lock-Out: Not to an extreme degree, but a lot of the Continuity Nods and Mythology Gags will fly right over your head if you’re not well-versed in Marvel Universe lore.
• Fridge Horror: When Eddie spies a pair of junkies shooting up outside his apartment, he takes a moment to talk - in his usual vaguely threatening way - about how harmful drugs are. When the film crew visits his apartment the next day, the male junkie is missing and the female one looks like she’s seen something utterly horrible...
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Spider-Man is The Ghost and never makes a direct appearance in spite of being Venom’s archenemy. In 2018, the official Venom movie got a lot of criticism for doing something very similar; excising Spider-Man entirely from Venom’s origin. To this film's credit, however, Spidey is at least acknowledged by it as someone who exists and is important to Eddie's backstory while the Sony film didn't.
• Moral Event Horizon: After the mugging scene, Eddie’s antics immediately stop being silly.
• Nightmare Fuel: The entire climax, with Venom tearing the film crew apart one by one.
  • The whole mugging sequence, where Eddie lets a guy get stabbed to death before savagely murdering his attackers. Especially the part where the victim is shown vomiting up blood as he dies.
• Older Than They Think: The portrayal of Venom as a ruthless, unsympathetic Jerkass isn’t so much an Alternative Character Interpretation as it is sticking closer to his original portrayal in the comics, prior to Characterization Marches On.
• One-Scene Wonder: Bullseye and the Large Ham filmmakers following him around in The Stinger.
• Squick: The symbiote doesn’t just wrap around Eddie like in the comics. Here, he stores inside himself and has to vomit it out.
• Special Effects Failure:
  • While Venom himself looks pretty damn good (especially for a fan-made production), the CGI on his Combat Tentacles is pretty dodgy. Fortunately they’re not on-screen for very long.
  • There are some really obvious jumpcuts when Bullseye throws his weapons.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Venom looks scarily good when he reveals himself in the climax.
• The Woobie: The mugging victim that Eddie lets die for the sake of a story.