Sword of Storms
- The Body Horror Professor Sakai goes through the longer he's possessed. Aside from turning red and taking on oni-like features, his body grows swollen and bloated. Granted his body is being inhabited by two demons, it's still unsettling.
- To anyone with arachnophobia, the scene where HB encounters the Jorōgumo. So. Many. SPIDERS! *shudder*
- The scene in which thanks to spirit possession, history starts to repeat itself, and the death of the Daimyo's daughter is almost recreated… with Kate in her place. Thankfully, Hellboy is quick to stop it.Fox Spirit: The play has begun. After the samurai imprisoned those demons in his sword, he never returned for the daimyo's daughter.
Hellboy: He wasn't there to save her. Unfinished business…
Blood and Iron
- The fate of Erzsebet's victims, including those that went with Bruttenholm when she was first killed. The women she killed to maintain her beauty are bound to the implements of torture and thus are forced to wander the mansion, begging for help. Meanwhile, the flashbacks leading up to Erzsebet's first death are presented in reverse so that the fates of the characters, which are particularly gruesome, are already known.
- The cold opening, showing the events at how Professor Bruttenholm first killed Erszebet. He is aided by several local policemen, including the girl's fiancé, and Father Lupescu. Needless to say, things do NOT go according to plan.
- We get a cut to a portrait of Erszebet on the wall, followed by an echoing hiss, the first hint things are about to go sideways, then several skeletons are seen littered about the chamber, remains of some of the poor souls Erszebet killed.
- Several instruments of torture are shown, with lovely cuts to Erszebet's victims being tortured. The sight of it all makes Father Lupescu briefly freak out, and it's hard to blame him.
- The party breaks down a wall to find Anna's dead body lying on the floor. Also doubles as a Tear Jerker, considering her fiancé's distraught reaction, not to mention what happens to the poor man shortly afterward. The sight of it makes Father Lupescu flee in blind despair.
- After staking Anna, the party opens up Erszebet's coffin. You'd expect the vampire to be sleeping, right? Wrong. It's empty. Then things go hell.
- Bruttenholm and two other men turn in response to a hiss, and the bearded policeman is nowhere to be seen when they turn back. He sees a drop of blood on his sleeve, and turns the flashlight up to see the man dangling from the ceiling, his corpse ghostly pale and face drawn in a rictus of terror, all while Erszebet happily drains him dry with several pleased moans. The reaction says it all.
- Erszebet bares her fangs and hisses, the two policemen left promptly book it with Bruttenholm trying to calm them down. Erszebet promptly summons her spectral wolves, and when the unfortunate men hear their howls, they flee down two separate corridors, to the Professor's dismay. We then are subject to the sounds of the wolves barking and the screams of the men, followed by flesh tearing as they are torn apart offscreen, leaving Bruttenholm at Erszebet's mercy. If it hadn't been for that quick thinking with the holy water, Erszebet would have won right there.
- A minor one, but at one point in the movie, Bruttenholm mentions that Erszebet killed over a thousand people. That would make her a serious contender for most prolific serial killer in human history.
- The way Erszebet toyed with people, at various points pretending to be a seamstress to fool Anna, then after that pays a visit to the church to deliver a Breaking Speech to Father Lupescu after Anna had visited him, seemingly for no other reason than because she could. And in between, we get to see that she killed the shop owner and her child, including a view of the baby's crib spattered in blood.
