The movie starts with the writings that the Seven Hands of God want to reclaim the Earth and burn the heavens, which would not be good. in 1944 we see young prof Broom with some American soldiers, trying to stop some paranormal ritual the Germans are performing in Scotland. A man tells blonde Ilsa: no matter what happens, this book will guide you back to me - which makes you wonder why he was so convinced that he’d die and she’d survive. Anyway, she was granted somehow some kind of long life because she looked the same when we see her again in 2004.
The man, that she calls Master and Broom will later call him Rasputin, opens the portal but is killed by it when the Americans attack.
They defeat the enemies, or so they think, but the portal had been opened and something came out.
They find a creature, and Broom stops them from killing him: a baby demon-boy, so they call him Hellboy, all red and with horns and a tail, and the right hand huge and made of stone.
Ilsa and a strange man with a mask are still alive and bring the master back.
Agent Myers is transferred to the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, and meets old Broom, Abe (the fish-guy who likes to eat rotten eggs, is psychic and lives in water but can walk outside from time to time, and can read four books simultaneously if someone’s there to turn the pages), and of course Hellboy, grounded because he escaped again and was seen by people.
Broom explains to him that “in the absence of light, darkness prevails” and that “there are things that go bump in the night, and we are the ones who bump back”.
Agent Clay and the others call Hellboy and Abe “Red and Blue”.
They say that Red doesn’t age like us, and indeed for being 60 he’s very strong.
They go to a library that has been attacked, and a Hellhound has been freed. Myers tries to help him, and then asks him “what the hell is that thing?” and he says “let me go ask!” before following it. It escapes across a road, among civilians and then on a railroad, and Red kills it - or thinks he did - by touching both the rails, because “I’m fireproof, you’re not”.
Abe shows prof Broom what happened at the library, how the masked one killed the guards and Ilsa and Rasputin resurrected the hellhound, and then he senses that the professor is unwell, but he doesn’t want Hellboy to know.
Red goes to see Liz, who grew up with him because she’s ‘special’ too, but she says that she’s learning to control her power and not be afraid, and asks him not to come back. That night the master comes into her room to put a mark on her forehead while she sleeps. She dreams of her childhood when kids bullied her as a ‘freak’ and she couldn’t control her power, and while sleeping she burns down the building.
Myers thinks Red doesn’t want him and so he should leave, but the prof tells him that he’s dying and is worried for his future like any father would be, and wants him to stay close because he’s pure of heart.
They go to destroy the hellhound’s eggs, but there are many hellhounds already. Two men are killed by them, Blue is injured by another and Red ‘kills’ one and saves a box of kittens in front of people.
Clay is killed by the masked creature, who somehow deactivates himself so to look like dead when Red arrives. Broom will study his ‘corpse’: born in 1897, dust instead of blood, can’t understand how he could possibly be alive, but knows that he’s only the puppet and Rasputin is the puppeteer.
Myers convinces Liz to come back, and then takes her out for a coffee. Red is so jealous he follows them and spies on them.
Rasputin speaks to the professor, telling him that his death will lead Hellboy exactly where he wants him to be, where he’ll open the portal and bring the apocalypse on earth. He asks him if he knows Hellboy’s real name, and the prof says that he knows what to call him, he calls him “son” =^_^=
Then the prof is killed. They are all touched by his death, and all but Abe go to Moscow following the trail...
We hear that the hellhound is not easy to kill, you kill one and two arises, so they say they must kill them all at once, creatures and eggs...which doesn’t explain why this way the hellhound should no more arise...
anyway, they go and Manning is all “I’m in charge!” as if he knew what’s going on, but maybe they make some sort of peace fighting along together - and defeating the masked one - after all they’re on the same side.
Liz and Myers get to a place full of hellhounds and eggs. Red comes to help but there are a lot of them, Liz is worried about him and tells Myers to hit her and run. Liz burns everything, the creatures and the eggs and faints. Myers hid behind rocks, and when he wakes up they’re all prisoners of Rasputin and Ilsa. Red refuses to open the portal for them and Rasputin takes Liz’s soul.
Now a confusing bit: Rasputin tells him he can’t break free because those chains have his name on it and are made for him, but then Rasputin wants him to break free - simply saying his own name out loud breaks the chains - I’m not sure of what’s going on here, but I think that saying his real name sort of took him back to who he was supposed to be at birth: his horns grow back and he moves to open the portal, until Myers shouts for him to remember who he really is, who he chose to be with the professor, and Red makes his choice by breaking his own horns and not opening the portal - without horns he’s no more a demon... and his name seems to be Anung un Rama.
Red kills Rasputin, takes Liz and goes away, but with Rasputin’s death his ‘god’, some huge demon comes out of his body. Ilsa stays there to die with him, while Red takes Liz away and leaves her with Myers. Red takes a grenade belt and activates it right before the monster swallows him whole, so that it gets blown up from the inside.
Liz appears to be dead but Red whispers and calls her name and she wakes up. She hugs him and says: “in the dark, I heard your voice. What did you say?” - “ I said, Ehi, you on the other side, let her go, because for... for her I’ll cross over, and then you’ll be sorry” aww. She kisses him and both are enveloped in her flames.
It ends with Myers voice, saying that what makes a man a man is the choices he makes and how he decides to end the things he started.
In between the big credits and the small ones we see Manning calling ‘guys I’m still here’ :-p
Hellboy-Ron Perlman
Broom-John Hurt
Liz-Selma Blair
Myers-Rupert Evans
Manning-Jeffrey Tambor
Abe-Doug Jones
young Broom-Kevin Trainor
young Liz-Millie Wilkie
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