Hellboy: The Crooked Man looks a bit cheap in its first trailer, but the horror vibes might just save it yet

This is the third time the comic book character has been adapted to film.

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The first trailer for the latest take on Hellboy , this time subtitled The Crooked Man, is here, and it looks… ok!

You can check out the first trailer for the film above, which to be perfectly honest looks a tad cheap. If you told me this was a fan film I’d probably believe you, as while the makeup on this Hellboy (played by Jack Kesy) looks pretty good, if you go back and look at del Toro’s Hellboy, you just can’t help but think the original looks better. One thing I do appreciate about the look of The Crooked Man is that it appears to be going for more of a horror vibe compared to the previous three films, which definitely fits the character’s whole vibe.

Director Taylor isn’t a stranger to comic book adaptations either, as he also previously wrote Jonah Hex, and directed Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and the TV series Happy! Hellboy: The Crooked man is based on the comic of the same name, and is set in 1950s rural Appalachia, where the titular character comes across a community haunted by witches led by a local devil that’s somehow connected to Hellboy’s past. It doesn’t have a release date just yet, but it’s supposedly “coming soon.”