New trailer for Hellboy: The Crooked Man looks like a folk horror nightmare
Aug. 28, 2024Hellboy wrestles a snake in the new trailer for The Crooked Man
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We’ve got your UK exclusive look at the new Hellboy: The Crooked Man trailer, and it’s a folk horror nightmare.
In the clip, which you can watch below, we see Hellboy faced with an unusual foe: a girl who looks to be possessed, with a snake wrapping around her body. Luckily, Hellboy wastes no time in ripping the snake away and wrestling it to the ground – then gruesomely popping its head with one hand. Yuck.
That’s not the only weird thing in the trailer, though, with one person seeming to swallow a raccoon, flashes of religious horror, and an appearance from the shadowy villain, the Crooked Man himself. Ominous…
In short, it looks like a grounded, absolutely terrifying horror movie, with a heavy folk and religious influence. Sign us up!
“So often I would come in late on projects where somebody else had already put the pieces together in a way that didn’t quite fit,“Mignola told us at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. “And this time, I got a chance to say, ‘We’re going to do The Crooked Man, we’re going to stick to that story.’ We need to add a little bit of backstory. So we borrowed it from one other story so we didn’t have to make up new stuff.”
Icon Film Distribution presents Hellboy: The Crooked Man in UK cinemas from 27 September. For more on what’s ahead, check out our guide to all the upcoming majormovie release datesof the year.
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I’m a Senior Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site’s Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.
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