Hellboy: The Crooked Man Offers Appalachian Horror in New Trailer

The infinitesimal Millenium Media revealed it had a caller Hellboy movie successful the works, everyone wondered however it would basal out. Guillermo del Toro’s duology were similar pulpy fairy tales, while the 2019 reboot tried for a much action-horror bent, to mixed results. This caller movie, The Crooked Man, has much of a supernatural fearfulness bent, and it looks similar it mightiness bash a bully job?

Set successful the 1950s, this caller movie puts Hellboy (Jack Kesy) successful a agrarian Appalachian assemblage with chap BPRD cause Bobbie Jo Song (Adeline Rudolph). While making friends with immoderate of the locals—namely Tom Ferrell (Jefferson White)—the duo recognize the assemblage has a witch occupation that’s making each sorts of weird things happening. You’ve seen visions of dormant radical before, but you’ve ne'er seen a raccoon doing its champion Chestburster impression. (If you have, past you’re watching overmuch much absorbing fearfulness than astir different people.)

Despite the spooky setup, Crooked Man does look similar it’ll beryllium immoderate schlocky fun. Having the precise devil-looking Hellboy chat it up with a clergyman portion loading up his weapon is immoderate bully stuff, ditto watching him suplex a snake and popular its caput similar a zit. If the movie tin wed those 2 tones together, it mightiness find a coagulated assemblage the past reboot didn’t, helped by openly advertizing itself arsenic an adaptation of the fashionable miniseries by Mike Mignola and Richard Corbin. If lone fractional the trailer wasn’t so dark to the constituent that Hellboy and different characters look similar blobs.

Directed by Brian Taylor and besides starring Martin Bassindale, Joseph Marcell, and Leah McNamara, Hellboy: The Crooked Man comes to theaters aboriginal this year.

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