The second Millenium Media revealed it had a brand new Hellboy film within the works, everybody questioned how it could stand out. Guillermo del Toro’s duology have been like pulpy fairy tales, whereas the 2019 reboot tried for a extra action-horror bent, to combined outcomes. This new film, The Crooked Man, has extra of a supernatural horror bent, and it appears to be like prefer it would possibly do a great job?
Set within the Fifties, this new film places Hellboy (Jack Kesy) in a rural Appalachian group with fellow BPRD agent Bobbie Jo Tune (Adeline Rudolph). Whereas making mates with a few of the locals—particularly Tom Ferrell (Jefferson White)—the duo understand the group has a witch drawback that’s making all kinds of bizarre issues occurring. You’ve seen visions of lifeless individuals earlier than, however you’ve by no means seen a raccoon doing its greatest Chestburster impression. (In case you have, you then’re watching way more attention-grabbing horror than most different individuals.)
Regardless of the spooky setup, Crooked Man does appear to be it’ll be some schlocky enjoyable. Having the very devil-looking Hellboy chat it up with a priest whereas loading up his gun is a few great things, ditto watching him suplex a snake and pop its head like a zit. If the film can marry these two tones collectively, it would discover a stable viewers the final reboot didn’t, helped by brazenly promoting itself as an adaptation of the favored miniseries by Mike Mignola and Richard Corbin. If solely half the trailer wasn’t so darkish to the purpose that Hellboy and different characters appear to be blobs.
Directed by Brian Taylor and likewise starring Martin Bassindale, Joseph Marcell, and Leah McNamara, Hellboy: The Crooked Man involves theaters later this 12 months.
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