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, theBureau of Paranormal Research and Defense.
Released in April 2004, it grossed $59 million at the United States box office and over $99 million
worldwide[2] and was favorably received by critics. A sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, was
released on July 11, 2008.[3]

In 1944, with the help of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, the Nazis build a dimensional portal off
the coast of Scotlandand intend to free the Ogdru Jahadmonstrous entities imprisoned in deep
spaceto aid them in defeating the Allies. Rasputin opens the portal with the aid of his disciples,
Ilsa von Haupstein and Obersturmbannfhrer 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 Bruttenholm, who is well-versed in the occult. The German team is killed and the
portal is destroyedin the process absorbing Rasputinwhile 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 Bruttenholm adopts him.
Sixty years later, FBI agent John Myers is transferred to the Bureau of Paranormal Research and
Defense (BPRD) at the request of Bruttenholm and he meets the adult Hellboy and a psychic,
amphibious humanoid named Abe Sapien. He learns that a third BPRD member, Liz Sherman,
has recently checked into a mental hospital to protect others from her volatile pyrokinetic abilities.
Despite regular visits and coaxing from Hellboy, she is determined not to return. Kroenen and
Haupstein resurrect Rasputin in the mountains of Moldova and the three unleash
a hellhound known as Sammael. Rasputin imbues Sammael with the power to reincarnate and
split his essence, causing two of the creature's eggs to hatch and mature each time one dies.
Rasputin visits Liz as she sleeps, activating her powers and almost destroying the hospital.
Myers convinces her to return to the Bureau.
Sammael's ability to multiply becomes a problem, as Hellboy repeatedly kills it, dozens are born.
Concluding the eggs are in the sewer, Hellboy, Abe and several FBI agents go down the sewer to
destroy them. Abe is injured while looking for the eggs, Kroenen kills most of the agents.
Kroenen, whose mutilated body is run by mechanical parts, shuts himself down, pretending to be
defeated. Kroenen's body is brought to the bureau. FBI Director Tom Manning is angered by
Hellboy's recklessness. Myers takes Liz out for coffee and to talk. Hellboy, jealous, covertly

follows them, leaving the bureau unguarded. Kroenen reanimates himself and Rasputin appears
at the bureau, confronting Professor Bruttenholm. Rasputin offers him a vision of the future,
showing Hellboy is the agent that will destroy the world. Bruttenholm is stabbed in the neck by
Kroenen and dies clutching a rosary.
Manning takes over the B.P.R.D. and locates Rasputin's mausoleum in an old cemetery
outside Moscow, Russia. A team led by Manning and Hellboy enter the mausoleum, but swiftly
become separated. Hellboy and Manning find their way to Kroenen's lair and defeat him. Hellboy
reunites with Liz and Myers at Sammael's new nest, but the creatures overwhelm them. Liz uses
her pyrokinetic powers to incinerate the Sammaels and their eggs. Hellboy, Liz and Myers lose
consciousness and are captured by Rasputin and Haupstein. Rasputin sucks Liz's soul out of her
body, then tells Hellboy to release the Ogdru Jahad in return for her soul. Hellboy awakens his
true power as Anung un Rama, causing his horns to regrow, and begins to release the Ogdru
Jahad. Myers breaks out of his restrain, subdues Haupstein, and reminds Hellboy that he can
defy his destiny. Remembering his true self and what Bruttenholm brought him up to be, Hellboy
breaks his horns, reseals the Ogdru Jahad and stabs Rasputin with one of his broken horns.
Rasputin has been possessed by a creature from the Ogdru Jahad. The
tentacled Behemoth bursts out of his body and grows to immense size, killing him and
Haupstein. Hellboy allows himself to be swallowed by the beast, then detonates a belt of hand
grenades and destroys it from the inside. He whispered something in Liz's ear and she is
revived. When she asks how her soul was returned, Hellboy replies that he threatened to come
to "the other side" to claim it back. Liz and Hellboy share a kiss.