Hellboy

Hellboy is back, and this time he's R-rated

"...a flat two hours) before opening weekend. But then Hellboy – the latest adaptation of Mike Mignola's epic comic..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hellboy

Cult comic book hero makes the transition to screen with much, but not all, of his charm intact.

"...newcomers alike into the world of that ol' debbil Hellboy, the film suffers from both scattershot character development and..."

April 2, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II is the most splendidly imaginative and creatively uncorked piece of fantastic cinema since his Pan's Labyrinth netted an Oscar trifecta in 2007.

"...Walton. It's not perfect – thank Satan! – but Hellboy II: The Golden Army is by far the most..."

July 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Film Vault

With Hellboy II, Guillermo del Toro makes the leap from mere great director to cinematic superhero

"...Friday, Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army opens. Having been a comic-book..."

July 11, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Staring Into the Abyss With Mike Mignola

Before MondoCon, the comics legend talks Hellboy and shadows

"...Mike Mignola created Hellboy and the world of the Bureau of Paranormal Research..."

Sept. 15, 2014 Design Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hell of It

Mike Mignola on returning to Hellboy

"...Nazi occultists, and the world's most unlikely superhero – Hellboy, Satan's spawn turned wisecracking two-fisted defender of the mortal..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bedside Manner: Hell on Earth

Dark literature in dark times, plus a plea for casting sanity

"...a time of mourning coming in my reading habits. Hellboy is dead, the X-Men are splitting, and the press..."

Sept. 6, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Flam

Austinites get Emmy nominations and David Gordon Green's new project

"...this edition of Film Flam, plus sad news for Hellboy fans...."

July 20, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Fantastic Fest Review: Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Into the shadowy mind of the man that created Hellboy

"...Abe Sapien. BPRD. Vampire. Lobster Johnson. And, of course, Hellboy. All the work of Mike Mignola, the artist and..."

Sept. 29, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

It Came From Beyond

"I saw my first cadaver when I was about five years old. I saw my first rotting corpse at 10." Now, at 35, Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most promising horror film director.

"...by Wayne Barlowe, Richard Corben, Edward Gorey, Ted McKeever, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, the French fantasy artist Moebius, and..."

July 21, 2000 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

Bullish On Comics

Guillermo del Toro gets serious about the funny papers.

"...fan today, chiefly of Mike Mignola’s supernatural adventure series Hellboy, which del Toro has been laboring for years to..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

The Reckoning

Plagues and witchcraft in this new period horror

"...The Reckoning? His horribly mauled and mangled version of Hellboy was always going to struggle to come out of..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Starfish

The end of the world becomes a powerful, music-driven metaphor for grief, loss, and healing

"...arcane creatures and existential angst that defines Mike Mignola's Hellboy comics, but which none of the cinematic adaptations of..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hell on Earth

Packed house at the Paramount for a first look at Hellboy

"...the unofficial world premiere of Guillermo del Toro's (center) Hellboy was cooler than Hades and more fun than a..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

New Line has no doubt about Tim McCanlies' Secondhand Lions, and Guillermo Del Toro wraps up Hellboy in Prague.

"...Secondhand Hellboys Dept.: "The movie is ready and done and they..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Bedside Manner: Hell, Ghosts, and Blood

Nihilists have more fun

"...Last Book I Read:Hellboy in Mexico (Dark Horse, 152 pp., $19.99)..."

June 22, 2016 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two

The nose knows when SXSW is coming

"...After watching Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy at the Paramount – a beautiful, overpowering, densely resonant..."

March 19, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Short Cuts

How is this year's South by Southwest Film Festival and Conference shaping up compared to previous years?

"...evening's overflowing non-SXSW midnight screening of Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy. "Austin, Texas, has not built enough theatre seats for..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Five Bizarro Films at Fantastic Fest @Home

The strangest and most fearless of the streaming selection at this year's Fantastic Fest

"...Hanna explore the mind of the man that created Hellboy. Quantum Cowboys..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Owen Kline Turns the Funny Pages

New movie looks at the grotesque and absurd sides of collection

"...that one in high regard. Do you have the Hellboy Ouija board that talks?..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Men in Black: International

The MiB stay Earthbound in a sequel saved by its stars

"...jumble of bright lights and middling CGI. At least Hellboy felt like a tug-of-war between a visionary director and..."

June 14, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Shape of Water

An unconventional love story from one of the best fabulists

"...of course, will recognize a more sublime evolution of Hellboy character Abe Sapien.) What is increasingly, albeit guardedly, “normal”..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ghost in the Shell

Scar Jo as cybernetic warrior

"...hulking partner Batou (Asbæk, apparently a big fan of Hellboy), who, after a particularly nasty firefight, trades in his..."

April 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crimson Peak

Guillermo del Toro goes Gothic, but falls short

"...onetime Austinite) whose mainstream cred stems mostly from his Hellboy movies and his popular FX network show The Strain...."

Oct. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pacific Rim

When monsters and robots engage in epic battle, puny humans huddle in movie theatres to pay respect.

"...Gorman provide some amusing comic relief, while del Toro’s Hellboy Ron Perlman also amuses as a black-market peddler in..."

July 12, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Felicia Day, Defender of the Earth

'The Guild' star plays Asteroids tonight at the Alamo with 'Rock Jocks'

"...go-to guy to wear full-body makeup (Abe Sapien in Hellboy, the Angel of Death in Hellboy II: The Golden..."

June 27, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The (Graphic) Case of Charles Dexter Ward

A classic Lovecraft story gets the comic-book treatment

"...way it's part of the background for Mike Mignola's Hellboy and the raison d'être of the Hideout Theatre's Black..."

April 12, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dylan Dog: Dead of Night

Brandon Routh stars as this film's titular paranormal investigator.

"...comes off as an ad hoc blending of the Hellboy and Blade franchises, is also true to the source..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beastly

Beauty and the Beast is refashioned here for the contemporary teen set and stars I Am Number Four's Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens.

"...phantasmagoria or, alternately, the tawny, televised melodramatics of future Hellboy Ron Perlman and Terminator's future mother of the savior..."

March 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bedside Manner: Anglophilia

Reading lists from Legeland's token Brit

"...way to info-dump. Give me the latest volume of Hellboy (collecting the long-lost Batman/Starman and Ghost crossovers) or the..."

Dec. 6, 2010 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

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