Venom: Let There Be Carnage: 23 WTF Moments

23. The Badly-Dubbed Flashback

The film opens in 1996, where a young Cletus Kasady watches as his love, Frances Barrison, is taken away from St. Estes Home for Unwanted Children and delivered to the Ravencroft Institute for experimentation.

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Given the importance of the scene, it's unfortunate that it features an incredibly distracting dubbing job, where Woody Harrelson and Naomie Harris' voices are dubbed over the younger actors playing them physically in the scene.

Considering the two actors don't really look much like their older counterparts at all, it's all the more jarring.

It would've probably made more sense to just let the young actors speak with their own voices instead of inviting unintentional awkwardness like this from the jump.

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