SDCC 2024: Hellboy: Crooked Man Trailer

The second Millenium Media revealed it had a brand new Hellboy film within the works, everybody puzzled how it might stand out. Guillermo del Toro’s duology had 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 seems prefer it may do a very good job?

Set within the Nineteen Fifties, this new film places Hellboy (Jack Kesy) in a rural Appalachian neighborhood with fellow BPRD agent Bobbie Jo Music (Adeline Rudolph). Whereas making buddies with a number of the locals—specifically Tom Ferrell (Jefferson White)—the duo notice the neighborhood has a witch drawback that’s making all kinds of bizarre issues taking place. You’ve seen visions of useless individuals earlier than, however you’ve by no means seen a raccoon doing its greatest Chestburster impression. (When you have, then you definitely’re watching far more attention-grabbing horror than most different individuals.)

Regardless of the spooky setup, Crooked Man does seem like 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 good things, ditto watching him suplex a snake and pop its head like a zit. If the film can marry these two tones collectively, it’d discover a stable viewers the final reboot didn’t, helped by overtly 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 seem like blobs.

Directed by Brian Taylor and in addition starring Martin Bassindale, Joseph Marcell, and Leah McNamara, Hellboy: The Crooked Man involves theaters later this yr.

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