Hellboy: The Crooked Man
Movie, 2024, The Crooked Man, Set in Appalachia, 1959
Hellboy: The Crooked Man is #6 of 6 in release order and #6 of 6 in chronological order in the Hellboy.
The story
Hellboy and a rookie BPRD agent get stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia. There, they discover a small community haunted by witches, led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy's past: the Crooked Man.
Hellboy: The Crooked Man recap
Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024) strands Hellboy and a rookie agent in the Appalachian Mountains in 1959, where a demon is buying local souls. Brian Taylor directed this second reboot from a script he wrote with Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden, adapting Mignola's comic of the same name. Hellboy (Jack Kesy) and Bobbie Jo Song (Adeline Rudolph) lose a captive spider monster when it grows huge and wrecks their train. They meet Tom Ferrell (Jefferson White), a veteran back home to face the Crooked Man, the creature he once traded with for a lucky bone. Witches led by Effie Kolb (Leah McNamara) come for the soul of Tom's former girlfriend Cora, and Tom's missing father turns out to have been changed into a horse. A snakebite shows Hellboy visions of his mother. The group shelters with the blind Reverend Watts (Joseph Marcell) as the Crooked Man attacks. Stands alone and needs no earlier film.
Hellboy: The Crooked Man ending explained
Hellboy: The Crooked Man ends with Bobbie Jo going into the mines under the church and freeing the trapped souls that feed the demon, which breaks his hold on Hellboy and Tom so they can destroy him; Reverend Watts dies in the tunnels. Effie starts to age fast, and Tom slips his father's enchanted bridle onto her, turning her into a white horse marked as a witch. Millennium presented it as the first of a possible new series. Bobbie Jo is invented for the film.
Where to watch Hellboy: The Crooked Man
Hellboy: The Crooked Man isn't on a US streaming service right now. You can rent or buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango At Home.
Ratings
IMDb 4.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 40%
Where it fits
What to watch before Hellboy: The Crooked Man
In release order, the essentials before Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024) are Hellboy (2004), Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms (2006), Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron (2007), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), and Hellboy (2019).
Cast
- Jack Kesy as Hellboy
- Jefferson White as Tom Ferrell
- Adeline Rudolph as Bobbie Jo Song
- Leah McNamara as Effie Kolb
- Hannah Margetson as Cora Fisher
- Martin Bassindale as The Crooked Man
- Joseph Marcell as Reverend Watts
- Suzanne Bertish as Grammy Oakum
- Bodgan Haralambov as Young Tom
- Carola Colombo as Sarah Huges
- Siyana Nacheva as Abby Riley
- Anton Trendafilov as Tom's Father
Directed by Brian Taylor.