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Director: Guillermo de Toro

Release Date: 2 September 2004

Tagline: From the dark side to our side.

Main Cast:

Ron Perlman … Hellboy

John Hurt … Trevor ‘Broom’ Bruttenholm

Selma Blair … Liz Sherman

Doug Jones … Abe Sapien

I was pleasantly surprised by Hellboy. I am not familiar with the comic, but the film is a very good, solid comic book movie. The story is engaging and I really liked the character of Hellboy. Ron Perlman manages to do a great job of portraying this scary looking man as anything but scary! He makes Hellboy seem more human than demon and his vulnerablility and loneliness is very touching. There’s a good element of humour as well.

Lastly, if you are a fan of the tv series Frasier then the voice of Abe Sapien will be familiar to you; it’s David Hyde Pierce (uncredited).

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