Hellboy

Hellboy: The Crooked Man

Alan Rapp / March 12, 2025 / Home Video

Title: Hellboy: The Crooked Man
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Loosely based on the three-issue comic of the same name, Hellboy: The Crooked Man was a critical and box office flop attempting to steer into more horror aspects of the Hellboy comics without the humor or charm of the Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman films. The choice allows for the film to go with a lower budget and more of a indie horror movie feel, but ultimately comes off more confused than creepy and more cheap than cost-effective.

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Alan Rapp / October 28, 2024 / Home Video

Title: Hellboy
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Based on the comic of the same name, which is even referenced in the film, 2004’s Hellboy stars Ron Perlman as the titular hero brought to Earth as a child by Nazis in World War II but raised in the United States by Professor Trevor Bruttenholm (John Hurt) and the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense to “bump back” against what goes bump in the night.

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Giant Robot Hellboy #3

Alan Rapp / January 1, 2024 / Comics

Title: Giant Robot Hellboy #3 (of 3)
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Writer: Mike Mignola
Artist: Duncan Fegredo

There’s not a lot of answers in the final issue of Giant Robot Hellboy. With Hellboy unconscious on the floor of the secret cabal who kidnapped him the robot he’s no longer connected to continues to fight being controlled by Hellboy but not Hellboy… um, yeah. The giant robot continues to knock off various monsters on the island. Meanwhile, our intrepid soldier Jian escapes the island thanks to a warning from whatever shared consciousness is powering our Mecha-Hellboy.

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Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat

Alan Rapp / December 19, 2023 / Comics

Title: Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat (One-shot)
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Writer: Matt Smith
Artist: Matt Smith

This one-shot holiday special set in 1990 from writer/artist Matt Smith takes Hellboy to Reykjavik to investigate the appearance of a giant cat which locals believe to be the Jólakötturinn, or Yule Cat, from Icelandic Christmas folklore, which appears around the end of the year to eat naughty children at Christmas time. Sadly, the issue doesn’t end with Hellboy getting a new pet cat.

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Giant Robot Hellboy #1

Alan Rapp / October 31, 2023 / Comics

Title: Giant Robot Hellboy #1 (of 3)
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Writer: Mike Mignola
Artist: Duncan Fegredo

Without prelude or explanation, Giant Robot Hellboy #1 kicks off with Hellboy being set up and kidnapped off the street in 1967 London. Taken to laboratory run by a mysterious, but obviously well-funded, group, Hellboy is strapped into a machine just as half a world away a giant box is delivered to an island of the eastern coast of Africa next to a mysterious bunker full of dead bodies and mutant spiders. And so the odd adventure begins.

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