{"id":38573,"date":"2025-03-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38573"},"modified":"2025-03-17T17:22:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T21:22:50","slug":"hellboy-the-crooked-man-2024-starring-jack-kesy-jefferson-white-adeline-rudolph-and-martin-bassindale-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38573","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hellboy: The Crooked Man&#8221; (2024) starring Jack Kesy, Jefferson White, Adeline Rudolph and Martin Bassindale \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z031825zview_hellboy_cm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Hellboy: The Crooked Man <\/i>(2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Brian Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Christopher Golden, Mike Mignola, Brian Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Jack Kesy,<\/strong> <strong>Jefferson White, Adeline Rudolph, Leah McNamara, Joseph Marcell, Anton Trendafilov <\/strong>and <strong>Martin Bassindale.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> From original story by Mike Mignola.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1959.\u00a0 Hellboy (Kesy) and rookie BRPD (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense) agent, Bobbie Jo Song, (Rudolph) find themselves stranded deep in the woods of the Appalachian Mountains following a train derailment.\u00a0 There the meet Tom Ferrell (White).\u00a0 Ferrell has returned hoping to make things right.\u00a0 Years ago Ferrell made a deal with The Crooked Man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deal will cost Ferrell his soul.\u00a0 Hellboy has other plans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although there have been four <em>Hellboy<\/em> movies this is the first where Mike Mignola, Hellboy creator, received a co-screenwriter credit.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first <em>Hellboy<\/em> movie that feels like a horror film.\u00a0 The music is especially creepy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The biggest shock for me was the look of Hellboy this time out.\u00a0 I am so used to Ron Perlman as the big lug.\u00a0 <em>Hellboy: The Crooked Man<\/em> is set in 1959. Since Hellboy first appeared on earth in 1944 and the Perlman version appears around 1999, I put it in my mind we were seeing a much younger Hellboy and one day he would grow to look like Perlman&#8217;s Hellboy.\u00a0 That fixed that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I really liked <em>Hellboy: The Crooked Man<\/em>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m surprised that it doesn&#8217;t have better ratings.\u00a0 It could be most of these folks only know Hellboy from Guillermo Del Toro and Ron Perlman.\u00a0 If so, they should give the Mike Mignola stories a look.\u00a0 Perhaps then they&#8217;d appreciate <em>Hellboy: The Crooked Man\u00a0<\/em>more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>Hellboy: The Crooked Man <\/i>(2024) <\/em><\/strong>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z031825zview_hellboy_cm2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"248\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024) Director: Brian Taylor Screenplay: Christopher Golden, Mike Mignola, Brian Taylor Stars: Jack Kesy, Jefferson White,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38574,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38573\/revisions\/38574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}