![]() “I think that's part of the texture of the film, as well. “It certainly has its roots more in that world of gothic horror,” director Neil Marshall explains to press on set. This Hellboy, a new reboot with a new star and new story, is more horror than fantasy. It’s all for the benefit of the production, which took up the unenviable task of creating a new kind of Hellboy movie years after director Guillermo del Toro made his two beloved iterations. ![]() There always seems to be a horned red beast of the apocalypse walking about in a trench coat for coffee breaks at any given hour. Then there’s David Harbour himself, star of Stranger Things, who is rarely seen by even his own cast mates out of Hellboy makeup. As night falls on a windy August night, so windy that it blows away all effects from the smoke machines pumping mist into the evening air, set pieces like the chicken-legged hut of Baba Yaga and the eery display of Merlin’s Tomb, begin blending into the shadows. It’s part of what makes the film set such a strange place.
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