Taken from a messenger conversation earlier tonight:



that film could have been made for me, tons of monsters with tentacles and a big old soppy demon who smokes all the time and says 'oh crap' alot



In case you are unfamiliar with the above image, or your not sure what 'big old soppy demon' I'm talking about I've been watching the new region 1 Hellboy DVD.



It's fantastic, right up there with X-men and Spiderman in the comic book adaption stakes. For the uninitiated Hellboy tells the story of a demon inadvertently summoned to our world through a Nazi ritual at the end of World War II, the ritual is disrupted by American troops who find Hellboy and raise him to be part of a shadowy government agency called the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defence. Sort of like the x-files but with a big red demon instead of Mulder, whose best friend is a fish... oh, and he has a thing for a pyrokinetic girl... and there is a clockwork Nazi... and Rasputin is in there too.



It's really difficult to describe to someone who hasn't read the books, without sounding like I'm making it up! Still, I loved it, the main characters are spot on, all the monsters are straight out of the big bumper book of H P Lovecraft nightmares, and Ron Perlman does a brilliant job in the Hellboy makeup managing to actually be quite touching in places.



For the life of me I can't understand why it's taking so long to be shown in the cinemas over here.