HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN Review: A Laudible, Decent Lo-Fi Comic Book Thriller Reboot
Hellboy: The Crooked Man will open in UK cinemas from September 27 from Icon Film Distribution. The years continue to pass as any fan-driven hopes of another entry in to the Guillermo Del Toro lens of another Hellboy movie grow inevitably farther from reality. Both films are memorable classics while the Neil Marshall-directed 2019 drew nowhere near the success of its predecessors despite its big scale visuals and ambition. With three films now in our rearview, the latest test of potency for Mike Mignola’s Dark Horse brainchild now comes by way of Brian Taylor, who is no stranger to comic book mediums with credits on Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011), and Jimmy Hayward’s Jonah Hex (2010). Alas, we get Hellboy: The Crooked Man, penned by Christopher Golden along with Taylor and Mignola, the latter who also served as one of the film’s exec producers. The 1959-set movie touts a […]
