Hellboy: Blood and Iron
| Hellboy: Blood and Iron | |
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| Based on |
Hellboy by Mike Mignola |
| Screenplay by | Kevin Hopps |
| Story by | Mike Mignola Tad Stones |
| Directed by |
Victor Cook Tad Stones |
| Starring |
Ron Perlman Selma Blair Doug Jones John Hurt Cree Summer Peri Gilpin |
| Theme music composer | Christopher Drake |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Sidney Clifton Lawrence Gordon Scott D. Greenberg Scott Hemming John W. Hyde Lloyd Levin Mike Mignola Mike Richarson Tad Stones Guillermo del Toro |
| Editor(s) | Matt Steinauer |
| Running time | 75 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Film Roman Madhouse DR Movie Revolution Studios |
| Distributor | Anchor Bay Entertainment |
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Hellboy: Blood and Iron is the second in the Hellboy Animated series (the first being Hellboy: Sword of Storms), written by Tad Stones and Mike Mignola. It first aired on March 17, 2007 on Cartoon Network, and aired again on July 19, 2008 to promote the release of Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and was released on DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment on March 10, 2007. The film's storyline is based in part upon the Hellboy: Wake the Devil storyline from the original comics.
The title is a reference to Otto von Bismarck's famous "Blood and Iron speech."
Also included on the DVD is the short film Iron Shoes, which is based on the Hellboy story of the same name. The Iron Shoes demon is voiced by Dan Castellaneta.
In a series of flashbacks played in reverse chronological order it is related that in 1939, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm investigated a series of murders in Eastern Europe. Erzebet Ondrushko, a vampire who bathed in the blood of innocents to stay young, was responsible. She had sold her soul to the Queen of Witches, the goddess Hecate, and had just kidnapped the fiancee of one of the townsmen. When the search party confronted Erzebet in her castle, all members of the party were horribly killed, and Bruttenholm was left to face her alone. He tricked her into the sunlight, effectively destroying her.
In the present day, an elderly Bruttenholm, who is overcome with memories of his encounter with Erzebet, takes a particular interest in a publicity stunt case in the Hamptons on Long Island. A haunting has been reported in a mansion recently purchased by developer Oliver Trumbolt, a friend of a U.S. Senator with hands deep in the BPRD's budget, and considered a low priority. Bruttenhom insists that their most advanced team should go: Liz Sherman, Abe Sapien, Hellboy and junior agent Sydney Leach as well as himself (to everyone's surprise). Bruttenholm does not explain his motives at first.
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