Hellboy (film)

Hellboy is a 2004 American supernatural superhero film, starring Ron Perlman and directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film is loosely based on the Dark Horse Comics graphic novel Hellboy Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola. It was produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film is about a demonic beast, known as Hellboy, who secretly works to keep the world safe from paranormal threats with his team, the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense.

In 1944, with the help of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, the Nazis build a dimensional portal off the coast of Scotland and intend to free the Ogdru Jahadmonstrous entities imprisoned in deep spaceto aid them in defeating the Allies. Rasputin opens the portal with the aid of his disciples, Ilsa von Haupstein and Obersturmbannfhrer Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, member of the Thule Society and Adolf Hitlers top assassin. An Allied team is sent to destroy the portal, guided by a young Trevor Bruttenholm, who is wellversed in the occult. The German team is killed and the portal is destroyedin the process absorbing Rasputinwhile Haupstein and Kroenen escape. The Allied team discovers that an infant demon with a right hand of stone came through the portal they dub him Hellboy and Bruttenholm adopts him.Sixty years later, FBI agent John Myers is transferred to the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense BPRD at the request of Bruttenholm and he meets the adult Hellboy and a psychic, amphibious humanoid named Abe Sapien. He learns that a third BPRD member, Liz Sherman, has recently checked into a mental hospital to protect others from her volatile pyrokinetic abilities. Despite regular visits and coaxing from Hellboy, she is determined not to return. Kroenen and Haupstein resurrect Rasputin in the mountains of Moldova and the three unleash a hellhound known as Sammael. Rasputin imbues Sammael with the power to reincarnate and split his essence, causing two of the creatures eggs to hatch and mature each time one dies. Rasputin visits Liz as she sleeps, activating her powers and almost destroying the hospital. Myers convinces her to return to the Bureau. ........

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