Every Guillermo Del Toro Movie - Ranked Worst To Best

Before the Iron Man and the Avengers assembled, before Batman Began and then Returned, before a different Batman met Superman and bonded over their mothers, there was Hellboy. Based on the less assuming Dark Horse comic, Hellboy stars an unlikely hero: a gigantic half-demon with horn stumps protruding from his forehead.

While Hellboy himself seems an unusual fit given the current landscape of the comic book film genre, he is a perfectly apt entry for Guillermo del Toro. His world is a world of monsters and misfits, including Doug Jones' Abe Sapien.

There is an attempted love plot in which a monster and a human become enamored with one another, but to a much less successful degree than del Toro would later create in The Shape Of Water. But besides that subplot, Ron Perlman's performance as the titular anti-hero is appropriately big and imbues the film with a fun energy mixing serious action and moments of arch absurdity.

In other films, Perlman is often too over the top and in need of being reigned in, but when he portrays a giant, bright red demon, chewing a little scenery seems necessary.