HELLBOY (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

David Harbour (A Walk Among The Tombstones), Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil), Ian McShane (John Wick), Sasha Lane (American Honey), Daniel Dae Kim (The Jackal), Thomas Haden Church (Sideways), Penelope Mitchell (Zipper), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), Brian Gleeson (Logan Lucky), Alistair Petrie (Hampstead), Laila Morse (Nil By Mouth), Stephen Graham (This Is England), Douglas Tait (Star Trek)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers), director; Andrew Cosby (film debut), writer; Lawrence Gordon (Die Hard), Carl Hampe (The Bleeder), Lloyd Levin (Boogie Nights), Matthew O’Toole (The Hitman’s Bodyguard), Mike Richardson (Mystery Men), John Thompson (Brooklyn’s Finest), Les Weldon (London Has Fallen) and Philip Westgren (film debut), producers; Benjamin Wallfisch (Blade Runner 2049), composer; Lorenzo Senatore (The Fourth Kind), cinematographer; Martin Bernfield (Project Almanac), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Hellboy (Harbour) is a powerful half-demon who works for the government organization Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He is called upon to battle the evil sorceress Nimue (Jovovich) who seeks to destroy mankind, but in the process he must also wrestle with his position in a world that doesn’t accept him as one of their own…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Darker, bloodier and swearier than Guillermo del Toro’s previous films based on the popular Dark Horse comic character, this new version of Hellboy is a raging beast that will have every adult comics fan howling with devilish delight.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

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