Hellboy: The Crooked Man

Agent Coulson

First look at Jack Kesy as Hellboy.

Due to hit cinemas later this year

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESMmZ3GOAJA&ab_channel=aBaNDoMoVieZ

pixelburp

I hadn't realised, or had forgotten, they were making yet another stab at this.

Ye gods though that looked horrendously cheap, cinematically the franchise has fallen quite far from the days of DelToro at the helm. And from that trailer, Kesy doesn't come close to matching either Perlman or Harbour.

Mickeroo

Is that actually getting a cinema release? Looks like a straight to shudder movie.

Mr Crispy

I saw a snippet of the trailer yesterday and genuinely thought it was for a fan film. 😳

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122331717#Comment_122331717

Same. There's low budget then there's this. Just in shooting the thing in an anonymous forest is itself a gigantic giveaway. It's a surprisingly high fall from grace given where the franchise existed.

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122326579#Comment_122326579

I thought from Asylum maybe

Mr Crispy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122332085#Comment_122332085

Bulgaria standing in for Appalachia apparently.

Surprised to read Mignola is directly involved in this, having co-written the script... I'd have thought he'd be more protective of his most famous creation.

con747

He lost me with the goatee.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122332384#Comment_122332384

Maybe he was sold a pup? Promised blockbuster budgets and casting and got … this.

Hande hoche!

Asylum presents Damnation dude. Doesn't look promising.

Electric Nitwit

Wow, that does look painfully generic, doesn't it?

If it didn't have Hellboy in it that trailer wouldn't even register, the fact it does makes it a bit depressing

TheIrishGrover

They cancelled the conclusion to Del Toro's trilogy for THIS? And the other one????!!! Yeeesh

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122335782#Comment_122335782

Not Hellboy as such, but the SciFi channel passed on an animated show from Mike Mignola, the Amazing Screw-On Head. You can at least watch the pilot online; such a distinctive tone & art-style you'd have to wonder if an animated Hellboy movie with this aesthetic might have been as chepa, but nicer looking.

https://youtu.be/BjqYHSQwtQg

CastorTroy

We had 2 animated movies before - "Sword of Storms" and "Blood & Iron"

I still need to watch the last film. Was interested at first but reviews put me off watching it. May check it out anyway now I'm reminded of it.

pixelburp

The latest trailer doing absolutely nothing to convince me this is anything but really terrible VOD trash.

Remember when Guillermo DelToro made these things? Good times.

https://youtu.be/4fw2PIpndnM?si=wMTs6G2o074O8-jD

spookwoman

The guy playing Hellboy just hasn't got that look like Ron Pearlman. Even David Arbour was better.

Avatar in the Post

They seem to have gone for a horror movie, whereas Pearlman’s was pretty much PG.

A different take.

Agent Coulson

I have to say I actually quiet enjoyed that if you take it as what it is a low budget horror movie.

spookwoman

Didn't think much of it. Very slow going

con747

That was the last Hellboy i'll be watching so. Pure sh1te. Wrong actor and totally wrong direction.

ElisaAtWar

It was pretty awful