Last time around, the horrors of Hellboy were at least restricted to a PG-13 rating. Not this time.
- The gore. Dear GOD, the gore.
- You know it’s going to be a horrifying film when the very first shot is an eye getting plucked out.
- The climactic attack on London is probably the most nightmarish example. Innocent bystanders are skinned alive, chopped in half, impaled, and one poor bloke is slowly ripped in half at the waist. The carnage only lasts for a couple minutes, but by the time the demons are sent back to Hell, half of London is now destroyed.
- Baba Yaga, who provides the films arguably most disturbing sequence (and that’s saying a lot). A decrepit, scarred demon who makes stew out of a dead human child.
- Here’s a fun fact: her ability to contort and twist her body in all manner of nauseating ways? That wasn’t CGI or puppetry. Troy James, the Canadian actor who plays her physical role (Emma Tate provides her voice) actually did all that for real.
