There’s a new Hellboy movie in cinemas, and while The Crooked Man isn’t as good as the Guillermo Del Toro efforts, it’s a solid comic book flick that gets something right which countless recent superhero films have got wrong. Hellboy creator Mike Mignola has finally made a Big Red movie that’s all his own. As while Hellboy: The Crooked Man is directed by Brian Taylor, it’s written by Mignola, and closely follows the storyline of one of his own comics.
The year is 1959, and Hellboy finds himself in rural Appalachia, doing battle with mosnters and witches. But his main adversary is the titular Crooked Man, who busies himself by collecting souls for the devil. The movie – which hit UK screens today – puts them on a collision course, so here’s how that plays out, plus why the lowkey ending is right for this kind of material.
So beware of MASSIVE SPOILERS ahead...
Hellboy: The Crooked Man ending explained At the climax of the movie, Hellboy goes toe-to-toe with The Crooked Man in a house of horrors, and the pair have quite the battle. Which ends with Big Red blowing off the Crooked Man’s head with a gun. Coins spill out of the villain; money he’d received in exchange for all those souls.
Big Red’s buddy Tom Ferrell asks if one of those coins represents the soul that he lost, to which Hellby responds that he will find out, eventually. The dynamic duo then depart, and soon stumble on a witch, whom they turn into a horse using magical reigns. Hellboy then finds .