History Film / Virus

* {{Golems}}: The alien's largest enforcers are known as Golems. This is an appropriate term as they are large brutes which are made from a mismatch of machinery and flesh.

* ChestBurster: The first cyborg found by the crew. The "dead" robots chest opens up and extrudes a smaller, scorpion-like one.

* {{Expy}}: The film depicts an alien intelligence that views organic life as little more than spare parts, and immediately upon getting the opportunity, it augments bodies with cybernetics to create an army of rotting cyborgs operating under its collective HiveMind. Not only that, it decides to create a colossal, quadrapedal machine to serve as the LoadBearingBoss of it all. [[VideoGame/QuakeII Sound familiar?]]

* HumansAreBastards: The alien's motivation for destroying humanity. It describes humanity as "destructive, invasive, noxious, harmful to the body of [[HiveMind the whole]]". To the alien entity, we are a virus.

* LiteralMinded: When the crew are briefly able to converse with the Virus, they ask it what it wants, probably in hope they can reason with it to get away. It replies by listing off various organic body parts: it took their meaning as an offer.

* TechnologyPorn: ...42 labs and 5 machine shops worth.

* TitleDrop: "YOU ARE VIRUS".

* TheVirus: It's made from electricity, and it's from space.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. [[spoiler:Richie dies last.]]

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:Everton]] tries to sell out the others -- and the whole human race by extension -- to the virus in order to save his own hide. The virus responds by converting him. In the novelization, at least, this was not voluntary. Averted in the film since it's implied that he retained his full faculties. Averted again when "Everton" speaks with the VoiceOfTheLegion, revealing that it was the Intelligence the whole time just speaking through him.

* AllJustADream[=/=]CatapultNightmare: [[spoiler: Foster dreamed that she wakes up floating in sea to find a robotized Hiko beside her.]]

''Virus'' is a 1999 science fiction-horror film directed by visual effects artist John Bruno and starring Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/WilliamBaldwin, Creator/DanielKash, Creator/CliffCurtis, and Creator/DonaldSutherland. The film is based on a Dark Horse comic book of the same name by Chuck Pfarrer.

''Virus'' is a 1999 science fiction-horror film directed by visual effects artist John Bruno and starring Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/WilliamBaldwin, Creator/DanielKash, and Creator/DonaldSutherland. The film is based on a Dark Horse comic book of the same name by Chuck Pfarrer.

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:Everton]] tries to sell out the others -- and the whole human race by extension -- to the virus in order to save his own hide. The virus responds by converting him. In the novelization, at least, this was not voluntary. Averted in the film since it's implied that he retained his full faculties. Averted again when "Everton" speaks with the VoiceoftheLegion revealing that it was the Intelligence the whole time just speaking through him.
* RuleOfScary: Why the virus's feels complelled to incorporate biological components into its craft projects work is never fully explained, aside from that it makes them quite a bit more disturbing than "normal" robots. Then again, it is an energy being. To it, all matter, living and nonliving is alien to it. It sees little distinction when it found that it could fuse the two different things together to make tools for itself.

* TheCynic: Everton seems to come off as this. He has a photo of himself as a younger man (who was full of hope and ambition) in his office, he tells his younger self he's sorry for letting him down when his cargo sank. This may partially be the reason for his SanitySlippage.

* DrivenToSuicide: Captain Everton contemplates suicide just before finding the Russian ship

* LiteralMinded: When the crew are briefly able to converse with the Virus, they ask it what it wants, probably in hope they can reason with it to get away, it replies by listing off various organic body parts, it took their meaning as an offer.

* RuleOfScary: Why the virus's feels complelled to incorporate biological components into its craft projects work is never fully explained, aside from that it makes them quite a bit more disturbing than "normal" robots.
** Then again, it is an energy being. To it, all matter, living and nonliving is alien to it. It sees little distinction when it found that it could fuse the two different things together to make tools for itself.

** The virus would also qualify. Hell, it breaks through a door in a fairly similar manner as [[Film/TheShining Jack Nicholson]].

* TheCynic: Everton has a photo of himself as a younger man (who was full of hope and ambition) in his office, he tells his younger self he's sorry for letting him down when his cargo sank. This may partially be the reason for his SanitySlippage.

''Virus'' is a 1999 science fiction-horror film directed by visual effects artist John Bruno and starring Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/WilliamBaldwin and Creator/DonaldSutherland. The film is based on a Dark Horse comic book of the same name by Chuck Pfarrer.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Everton, the borderline-insane captain that is TheNeidermeier and a very greedy one at that. When he's turned into a killer cyborg and blown away with a thermite grenade, nobody else in the cast cares]].

* TooDumbToLive: Don't take a job on a boat sailing through international waters if you can't swim.

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:Everton]] tries to sell out the others -- and the whole human race by extension -- to the virus in order to save his own hide. The virus responds by converting him. In the novelization, at least, this was not voluntary. Averted in the film since it's implied that he retained his full faculties.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Apparently the case with Everton, as he has a photo of his son in his officer, he says he's sorry for letting him down when his cargo sank. This may partially be the reason for his SanitySlippage.

* ArtificialZombie: The virus creates several of these, from Alexi, [[spoiler:Squeaky, Woods, and Everton]].

** [[spoiler:Nadya]] sacrifices her life by trying to blow up the remaining robot.

%%* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Everton]].

The film revolves around the crew of a tugboat, the Sea Star. After barely entering the eye of a hurricane, they see another ship on the radar -- the ''Academik Vladislav Volkov'', a Russian missile and satellite tracking ship. With their boat taking on water faster than they can pump it out, the crew boards the ''Volkov'', where they find that the electronics have been powered down and the crew has abandoned ship. Once they power up the ship, [[SealedEvilInACan bad things happen]].

* ArtificialZombie: The virus creates several of these, from Alexi, [[spoiler: Squeaky, Woods, and Everton]].

%%* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Everton]].

** [[spoiler: Richie]].

-->''"[[spoiler: Squeaky]]? What's wrong with you?"''\\

* ChekhovsGun: The thermite grenades Nadya has on her when she's found are later used to destroy [[spoiler: robo-Everton]].

* EpicHail: A nearby ship responding to the previous mayday asks for a flare so that they can find them in the storm. Moments later [[spoiler: the ''Volkov'' explodes after Steve and Foster escape in the rocketsled and set off Ritchie's boobytrap. The fireball is seen by the other ship from miles away through the storm.]]

* FaceRevealingTurn: [[spoiler: Cyborg Squeaky]].

** Averted when [[spoiler:Foster forbids Steve from doing it, and ensures that they both leve with the rocket chair]].

* IncrediblyObviousBomb: One has a beeping timer with red numbers, the other is a huge pile of explosive materials strapped together with [=RPGs=] and primed with grenades that have their pins tied to a long ripcord. It sits out in the middle of the room like a sore thumb, but Goliath didn't seem to notice it until it was too late. Granted, it was a bit distracted at the time by the [[spoiler: humans and their rocket-driven homebrew ejector seat.]]

The film revolves around the crew of a tugboat, the Sea Star. After barely entering the eye of a hurricane, they see another ship on the radar -- the ''Academik Vladislav Volkov'', a Russian missile and satellite tracking ship. With their boat taking on water faster than they can pump it out, the crew boards the Volkov, where they find that the electronics have been powered down and the crew has abandoned ship. Once they power up the ship, [[SealedEvilInACan bad things happen]].