20 years ago, when we were not yet fully immersed boom of the best superhero movies in history and adaptations based on comics, such as ‘The Dark Knight’, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ or ‘V for Vendetta’, to name just a few of the most interesting, a young Guillermo del Toro presented his second adaptation of a comicc and the most important, alien to that world almost polarized today between the adaptations of Marvel Studios and the DC Universe. Yes there is life before Christopher Nolan, Zack Snyder, James Gunn and the Russo brothers.
So, after ‘Blade II’one of those sequels that were better than the first, it would be the turn to bring to the big screen the capital work of the writer and artist Mike Mignola, author of one of the most iconic superheroes of the ninth art and protagonist of one of the most acclaimed Dark Horse Comics series. Nobody better than del Toro to bring these Mignola vignettes to lifepure visual delight.
And it is that A fantasy and adventure movie leaves Prime Video and you only have 3 days -until April 30- to see it. We are referring, of course, to ‘Hellboy’the film starring Ron Perlman in the skin of the red demon, Selma Blair, John Hurt and Doug Jones.
In ‘Hellboy’ we go up end of World War II. There, through black magic, the Nazis They conjure the demon Hellboy, who grows among the allies until he becomes an adult, acting as an agent of the Office of Paranormal Defense and Research, known as the AIDP.
Thus, taking as reference historical titles of the character such as ‘Seed of Destruction’ or ‘The Box of Evil’, del Toro would find the perfect balance to express your passion for gothic, classical and esoteric genre with those references to Lovecraft, with doses of grotesque humortrue pulp aesthetic and humanist poetry of the genrepresent in details such as the love story between Hellboy and Liz.
In this way, as we stated in Fotogramas’ review of ‘Hellboy’, “Guillermo del Toro has achieved what rarely happens in comic adaptations: re-create the character, making it his own, without losing his own essence. It is impossible be a fan of the genre and not enjoying ‘Hellboy’“.
In 2008, there would be a sequel, ‘Hellboy 2: The Golden Army’ (you have it available on SkyShowtime) and, in 2019, we decided to erase from our memory that new attempt to revitalize the saga with the ‘Hellboy’ by Neil Marshall made by David Harbor, one of the worst movies of the 21st century that you should avoid. You’re warned.
Jorge is an expert in movies, series and comics. His favorite genres are horror and science fiction, the perfect balance between the thunderous scream of the slasher and the disturbing silence of space and, although he flirts with auteur cinema in search of that hidden gem far from the mainstream, he does not hide, His thing is commercial cinema from Marvel, Star Wars, DC and Pixar.
This restless journalist discovered the mysticism of ‘Twin Peaks’ a few years ago and, since then, it has been just another concept trapped inside David Lynch’s head. When he manages to escape from the Black Lodge, he revisits the filmography of the master Carpenter, loses himself again between the pages of Moore and Gibbons’ ‘Watchmen’ or sets out in search of new emotions in miniseries format.
After his brief stint in media such as TVE, RNE and the TV and communication section of La Razón, Jorge has spent more than a decade in the delirious world of advertising agencies, where he has had the opportunity to be part of various communication teams. which have allowed him to participate in soirees, events, junkets and various efforts with performers of the stature of Antonio de la Torre, Jared Harris, Kim Dickens, Colman Domingo and Christina Hendricks. He arrived at FOTOGRAMAS in 2022, where he managed to carve out a niche as an editor to write about the most popular series, the best Alfred Hitchcock films or everything related to franchises, reboots, prequels, sequels, sequels and various nonsense of the moment, returning from This forms his passion for journalism and cinema.
Jorge has a degree in journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid, in addition to being a director from the RTVE Institute, where he acquired notions of pre-production, production and post-production of audiovisuals.
