Hellboy (film)

Hellboy
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Guillermo del Toro
Produced by	Lawrence Gordon Mike Richardson Lloyd Levin
Screenplay by	Guillermo del Toro
Story by	Guillermo del Toro Peter Briggs
Based on	Hellboy by Mike Mignola
Starring	Ron Perlman Selma Blair Jeffrey Tambor Karel Roden Rupert Evans John Hurt
Music by	Marco Beltrami
Cinematography	Guillermo Navarro
Edited by	Peter Amundson
Production companies	Revolution Studios Lawrence Gordon Productions Dark Horse Entertainment
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	March 30, 2004 (2004-03-30) (Mann Village Theater) April 2, 2004 (2004-04-02) (United States)
Running time	122 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$66 million
Box office	$99.3 million

Hellboy is a 2004 American supernatural superhero film, starring Ron Perlman and directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film is loosely based on the Dark Horse Comics graphic novel Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola. It was produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film is about a demonic beast turned into superhero, known as Hellboy, who secretly works to keep the world safe from paranormal threats with his team, the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense.

Released in April 2004, it grossed $59 million at the United States box office and over $99 million worldwide and was favorably received by critics. A sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, was released on July 11, 2008.

In 1944, with the help of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, the Nazis build a dimensional portal off the coast of Scotland and intend to free the Ogdru Jahad—monstrous entities imprisoned in deep space—to aid them in defeating the Allies. Rasputin opens the portal with the aid of his disciples, Ilsa von Haupstein and Obersturmbannführer Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, member of the Thule Society and Adolf Hitler's top assassin. An Allied team is sent to destroy the portal, guided by a young Trevor Broom, who is well-versed in the occult. The German team is killed and the portal is destroyed—in the process absorbing Rasputin—while Haupstein and Kroenen escape. The Allied team discovers that an infant demon with a right hand of stone came through the portal; they dub him "Hellboy" and Broom adopts him.