Top Funds 2004

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Top Funds 2004

Top Funds 2004

Hellboy is a 2004 film adaptation of Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, a Dark Horse Comic by Mike Mignola. The film was directed by Guillermo del Toro, famous for directing numerous films including Cronos in 1993 and Blade 2 in 2002 (both films starred Ron Perlman). Doug Jones (who would later appear in 2006’s Pans Labyrinth) was the man underneath all Abe Sapien's makeup, but it was David Hyde Pearce who provided the voice.

The Beginning of the End

In 1944 the Nazis are working with the undead mystic Grigori Rasputin (Karel Roden) to open a portal to bring through the Ogdru Jahad, entities that slumber in deep space, in order to destroy their enemies. Rasputin gives his servant Ilsa von Haupstein (Biddy Hodson) eternal life and is aided by Hitler’s top assassin Lieutenant Colonel Karl Ruprecht Kroenen (Ladislav Beran) the head of the Thule Occult Society. The Allies attack just as the portal opens, managing to stop the ritual but their interference causes Rasputin to be dragged into the collapsing portal and killed. Moments later Professor Broom (Kevin Trainor) realises that something might have come through and after a quick search the Allied soldiers discover a small red demon that they adopt and call: Hellboy.

Sixty years later a young FBI agent named John Myers (Rupert Evans) is recruited by Professor Broom (now much older and played by John Hurt) into the B.P.R.D, that’s the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defence. There he meets the demon Hellboy (Ron Perlman) now also grown up, although he ages in kind of reverse dog years so he is only in his late(ish) twenties. He is also introduced to Abe Sapien, an amphibious humanoid. A short while later he meets Liz Sherman (Selma Blair) a pyrokinetic (someone who can make and manipulate fire) who has only limited control over her powers and has left the B.P.R.D for the thirteenth time and has checked herself into a mental hospital.