In which the Mister joins me in reviewing HELLBOY (2004), from a comic by Mike Mignola, a script by Guillermo del Toro and Peter Briggs, the film is directed by Guillermo del Toro.  Hellboy introduces the world to Anung Un Rama, a demon infant rescued from Nazis by Allied forces during World War II and raised by Professor Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm (Kevin Trainor/John Hurt) to become Hellboy (Ron Perlman), a powerful agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD).  Hellboy, a gruff but benevolent supernatural investigator, is tasked with stopping the resurrected Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin (Karel Roden) and the elite Nazi assassin Karl Ruprecht Kroenen (Ladislav Beran), who plot to bring about the apocalypse.  Aided by his BPRD colleagues, the pyrokinetic Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), psychic-amphibian Abe Sapien (Doug Jones, voiced by David Hyde Pierce) and Agent Myers (Rupert Evans), Hellboy must battle demonic forces while struggling with his own destiny as the harbinger of destruction.  The film clocks in at 2 h 2 m, is rated PG-13 and is currently available on HBO Max but also to buy/rent on Prime Video.  Please note there are SPOILERS in this review.

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Opening intro music: GOAT by Wayne Jones, courtesy of YouTube Audio Library