Hellboy
- IMDb link: 0167190
- IMDb rating: 6.9 (370,191 votes)
- Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy, Mystery
- Director: Guillermo del Toro
- Cast: John Hurt, Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Rupert Evans and others
- Release date: 2 Apr 2004
- Release year: 2004
- Runtime: 122 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: demon, hellboy character, nazi, superhero, hero, assassin, based on comic book, weapon, fbi federal bureau of investigation, steampunk fantasy
Plot:
At the end of World War II, Nazi officers Karl Ruprecht Kroenen and Ilsa Haupstein start an experiment to raise the forces of Hell through Russian dark mystic Rasputin on a Scottish island, but it's interrupted by an Allied commando guided by professor Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm. He prevents killing the human-demonic half-blood, which was accidentally created and raises this "Hellboy", while rising to head of a secret C.I.A.-linked U.S. agency Bureau of Paranormal Research, which secretly studies and uses the occult, including supernatural freaks. As "father" Broom is aging, he hand-picks brilliant, sensitive Agent John Myers as new minder/companion, as regular "warrior" Agent Clay can't empathize and lacks flexibility mental. Hellboy is quite a handful, regularly spotted by worried civilians on unauthorized excursions, especially to pyro-telekinetic freak friend in a mental asylum. Johnny, Hellboy, and Clay team up on missions against paranormal threats with aquatic-bionic freak Abe Sapien. Their task proves to be daunting, as monster Sammael multiplies every time it "dies", while Rasputin and the Nazis reemerge, armed for revenge.