A new Hellboy: The Crooked Man poster has been unleashed featuring Jack Kesy as the titular character in the fourth installment of the franchise.
“Witness the beginning of all evil,” teases the poster.
What is Hellboy: The Crooked Man about?
Following when the flick was first announced last year, director Brian Taylor teased it would be an R-rated folk horror movie closer to a version of the comics.
“I pitched an R-rated folk-horror movie and the team here at Millennium have been nothing but supportive. It’s a great group of people, and they love horror,” Taylor revealed to Collider. “We’ve definitely had a discussion of, you know, it doesn’t really serve anybody to make something R for R’s sake. To say it has to be R so we have to add A, B, and C. But this material, this original material is dark and scary and violent and adult. So in order to really embrace that, we just don’t wanna have any handcuffs on.”
He added, “Some of the comics [creator] Mike [Mignola] was doing at the time had a very different feeling. More lean and mean, creepy, folk horror. A younger Hellboy, wandering the dark corners of the world… Paranormal investigator, night stalker… The Crooked Man in particular is just such an iconic book — written by Mike, drawn by Richard Corben, another legend. Set in the late ’50s. For me, it’s my favorite version of the character. So the appeal of this one, to me, is to go back to that and do a real reset, and really give us that version of Hellboy, which I just don’t think we’ve seen yet.”
Hellboy: The Crooked Man is “set in the 1950s and costars Adeline Rudolph (Resident Evil) as a rookie agent of the BPRD (the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense) who teams up with Hellboy to protect the residents of Appalachia from the creepy Crooked Man, who is collecting souls for the devil.
Also starring in the movie includes Jefferson White as Tom Ferrel, Leah McNamara as Effie Kolb, Joseph Marcell as Reverend Watts, Hannah Margetson as Cora Fisher, and Martin Bassindale as the Crooked Man.
Hellboy: The Crooked Man is directed by Brian Taylor (Crank, Happy!, Ghost Rider: Spirits of Vengeance) and gets released on September 27, 2024.
Watch the trailer:
