

Sixty years later, the eternally youthful Kroenen and Haupstein resurrect Rasputin. The Allied team discovers that an infant demon with a right hand of stone has come through the portal they dub him " Hellboy" and Bruttenholm adopts him. The German team is killed and the portal is destroyed, in the process absorbing Rasputin, while Haupstein and Kroenen escape. An Allied team destroys the portal, guided by a young scientist named Trevor Bruttenholm (colloquially known as "Broom"). Rasputin opens the portal with the aid of his disciples, Ilsa von Haupstein and Obersturmbannführer Karl Ruprecht Kroenen. In 1944, with the help of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, the Nazis build a dimensional portal off the coast of Scotland and intend to free the Ogdru Jahad to aid them in defeating the Allies. The film was followed by a sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, released in 2008 by Universal Pictures, and a reboot of the same name, released in 2019 by Lionsgate.

The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed over $99 million against a production budget between $60–66 million. Hellboy had its premiere at the Mann Village Theater in Los Angeles on March 30, 2004, and was released in the United States on April 2, by Sony Pictures Releasing. In the film, a charismatic demon-turned-investigator named "Hellboy" works with the secretive Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense to suppress paranormal threats, but a resurrected sorcerer seeks to make Hellboy fulfill his destiny by triggering the apocalypse. The film draws inspiration from the debut comic Hellboy: Seed of Destruction. Directed and written by Guillermo del Toro, it is the first installment in the franchise’s live-action film series the film stars Ron Perlman in the title role, alongside Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor, Karel Roden, Rupert Evans, and John Hurt.

Hellboy is a 2004 American superhero film based on the Dark Horse Comics character of the same name, created by Mike Mignola.
