This story begins on a train as Hellboy and 2 others from the BPRD are guarding cargo (A demonic spider) as it is being transported to their headquarters for research. As they are passing through Appalachia, something calls out to Hellboy and the spider, causing it to grow giant, with the ensuing fight derailing the train car their in. Miraculously the female BPRD agent (Bobbie Joe, played by Adeline Rudolph) survived the train car virtually unscathed after it tumbled through the wooded mountain. There’s zero chance she would’ve survived, they’d have had a better chance explaining her survival had she fell off the train separate from the car derailing.

Turns out there’s a witch problem in Appalachia that Hellboy and Bobbie Joe will end up having to sort out in order to get their “cargo” back. It’s not a terrible story, but a vast majority of the dialogue just feels off. I’m not sure if it was the acting, the dialogue choice or both, but it made it a bit rough to watch. While overall Jack Kesy didn’t do a terrible job, some of his fight scenes were rough. When fighting the giant spider in the train and in the woods, as well as when fighting a large snake, there were several times where he showed zero urgency. a light jog away from the spider chasing and jumping after him, staring the snake in the face, waiting for it to bite him before he tries to wrestle with it.

I wanna say it’s hard to complain about a Hellboy movie, I love Hellboy… but it’s rather easy to complain about this one. This focused more on the horror side of things and mostly ignored the tendancy for Hellboy movies to have a bit of humor baked in, and honestly if the acting and dialogue were better this would be a pretty decent movie. This sits around 4 stars for me which feels both a tad generous and simultaneously a tad conservative.