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'''''Hellboy: Blood and Iron''''' is the second film in the [[Hellboy Animated|''Hellboy Animated'' series]] (the first being ''[[Hellboy: Sword of Storms]]''), written by [[Tad Stones]] and [[Mike Mignola]]. It first aired on March 10, 2007 on [[Cartoon Network]], and aired again on July 19, 2008 to promote the release of ''[[Hellboy II: The Golden Army]]'', and was released on [[DVD]] by [[Anchor Bay Entertainment]] on June 12, 2007. The film's storyline is based in part upon the ''[[Hellboy: Wake the Devil]]'' storyline from the original comics.<ref>{{cite news|title= Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron |work= [[IGN]]|url= http://uk.dvd.ign.com/articles/795/795906p1.html|access-date=2010-11-15}}</ref>


The title is a reference to [[Otto von Bismarck]]'s famous "[[Blood and Iron (speech)|Blood and Iron speech]]".
'''''Hellboy: Blood and Iron''''' is the second in the [[Hellboy Animated|Hellboy Animated series]] (the first being ''[[Hellboy: Sword of Storms]]''), written by [[Tad Stones]] and [[Mike Mignola]]. It first aired on March 17, 2007 on [[Cartoon Network]], and aired again on July 19, 2008 to promote the release of ''[[Hellboy II: The Golden Army]]'', and was released on [[DVD]] by [[Anchor Bay Entertainment]] on March 10, 2007. The film's storyline is based in part upon the ''[[Hellboy: Wake the Devil]]'' storyline from the original comics.<ref>{{cite news|title= Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron |work= [[IGN]]|date=|url= http://uk.dvd.ign.com/articles/795/795906p1.html|accessdate=2010-11-15}}</ref>


Also included on the DVD is the short film ''Iron Shoes'', which is based on the [[Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others#Iron Shoes|Hellboy story of the same name]]. The Iron Shoes demon is voiced by [[Dan Castellaneta]].
The title is a reference to [[Otto von Bismarck]]'s famous quote of "blood and iron."


==Plot==
Also included on the DVD is the short film ''Iron Shoes'', which is based on the Hellboy story of the same name. The Iron Shoes demon is voiced by [[Dan Castellaneta]].
In 1939, shown in a series of flashbacks played in reverse chronological order, Professor [[Trevor Bruttenholm]] investigates a series of murders in Eastern Europe. [[Elizabeth Báthory|Erzsebet Ondrushko]], a vampire who bathed in the blood of innocents to stay young, was responsible. She had sold her soul to the Queen of Witches, the goddess [[Hecate]], and most recently kidnapped the fiancée of one of the townsmen. When the search party, including the local priest, Father Lupescu, confronts Erzsebet in her castle, all members of the party are horribly killed, and Bruttenholm must face the vampire alone. He tricks her into the sunlight, effectively destroying her, but her ashes swirl back into the castle to find sanctuary in her [[iron maiden]].


In the present day, an elderly Bruttenholm, overcome with memories of his encounter with Erzsebet, takes a particular interest in a publicity stunt case in the [[Hamptons]] on [[Long Island]]. A haunting has been reported in a mansion recently purchased by developer Oliver Trumbolt, a friend of a U.S. Senator with hands deep in the [[Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense|BPRD]]'s budget, and considered a low priority. Bruttenholm insists that their most advanced team should go: [[Liz Sherman]], [[Abe Sapien]], [[Hellboy]], and junior agent Sydney Leach as well as himself (to everyone's surprise). Bruttenholm does not explain his motives at first.
== Plot ==
In a series of flashbacks played in reverse chronological order it is related that in [[1939]], young [[Trevor Bruttenholm|Professor Bruttenholm]] investigated a series of murders in Eastern Europe. [[Elizabeth Bathory|Erzsebet Ondrushko]], a [[vampire]]ss who bathed in the blood of innocents to stay young, and sold her soul to the Queen of Witches, the goddess [[Hecate]], was responsible, and had just kidnapped the fiancee of one of the townsmen. When the search party confronted Erzebet in her castle, all members of the party were horribly killed, and Bruttenholm was left to face her alone. He tricked her into the sunlight, effectively destroying her.


The BPRD team arrives at Trumbolt's site and sets up to investigate the haunting. Despite a few open windows, a creepy lifelike replica of Erzsebet, artifacts from her castle, and an old, suspiciously familiar-looking groundskeeper, everything seems normal until night falls and they each encounter strange ghostly apparitions, culminating in dozens of spirits of Erzsebet's former victims. Excited that he may have found a goldmine, Trumbolt ignores the professor's warnings and is attacked.
In the present day, the elderly Bruttenholm, having stepped down as director of the [[Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense|BPRD]] takes an unusual interest in a supposed haunting in the [[Hamptons]], on [[Long Island]]. Hotel mogul Oliver Trombolt (a close friend of the BPRD's budget controllers in [[United States Senate|the Senate]]) has asked for an investigation of a house he is renovating for use as a [[resort]] [[hotel]]. It is blatantly obvious that Trombolt is merely staging a [[publicity stunt]], but Bruttenholm feels that something genuinely supernatural may be taking place there. He decides to investigate it himself, taking top BPRD agents [[Hellboy]], [[Liz Sherman]], and [[Abe Sapien]] along, together with a junior agent named Sydney Leach.


Using his abilities to detect metal, Leach finds a secret passageway through the house's cellar, inadvertently coming across Trumbolt's body, drained of blood. The blood has been placed in a bathtub, apparently for Erzsebet's revival. Bruttenholm and Liz head for the gardens to stop Hecate and Erzsebet's Harpy-Hags from summoning her back from the dead. The aged groundskeeper, actually Father Lupescu who is in thrall to the vampire, is transformed into a werewolf by the harpies and sent to attack the team. Abe is knocked out and taken by the harpies to be brutally tortured for experimentation while Hellboy fights the werewolf, ultimately killing it.
Much to Bruttenholm's horror, it turns out that the [[ghost]]s are Erzsebet's victims, and a plot is taking place to resurrect the vampiress from the grave. In this she has been unwittingly aided by Trombolt, who has in fact constructed a whole [[marketing campaign]] around Erzsebet to draw tourists to the castle, and assembled a large collection of [[torture device]]s from Erzsebet's castle in Europe in a display room of the house.


Liz and Bruttenholm are attacked, first by demonic wolves to delay them from stopping the ritual, then by Erzsebet in a restored but withered body, who knocks Liz out, beats Hellboy through a hole in the courtyard, and takes Bruttenholm back to the mansion. Erzsebet bathes in Trumbolt's blood and rejuvenates herself, but she begins to wither and decay again – Bruttenholm poisoned the blood with Holy Water. He stakes the vampire through the heart, and she turns back to dust. Freed from their torment, the spirits of the house depart in peace, including Father Lupescu.
On the second day of their stay in the house, the inhabitants are all attacked, separately, by Erzsebet's servants. The crew must deal with everything from a pack of ravenous phantom hounds, a [[werewolf]] created from Bruttenholm's old friend Father Lupescu, and a pair of [[harpy]]-[[hag]]s that created the werewolf, who are servants to Erzsebet and followers of Hecate. Hellboy is investigated by Hecate and must battle a mortal form of Hecate herself. Though she attempts to coax him to the dark side, he blatantly refuses. One of the harpy-hag's got crushed by Hecate, the surviving harpy-hag manages to escape. Bruttenholm proves himself yet again by outwitting Erzsebet, deceiving her despite his older and slower age and destroying her again. Hellboy manages to subdue Hecate by exposing her to sunlight, although he is severely injured in the process.


Meanwhile, under the mansion, Hellboy meets Hecate, who is perplexed as to why he helps the mortals, and tries to lure him to the dark side. He bluntly refuses again and again, battling Hecate's snakes as he tries to re-enter the mansion. Erzsebet's death further enrages Hecate, who possesses the iron maiden, reshapes it into a semblance of her true form, and brutally attacks Hellboy. Abe escapes the harpies, after which they find Hecate fighting Hellboy; one is killed by Hecate's thrashing tail and the other flies away. Leach, Liz, and Abe attempt to help Hellboy stop the goddess, but are unsuccessful. A badly-wounded Hellboy realizes Hecate's weakness is the sun; he lures her outside, forcing her back into the darkness of her own realm, defeated. The film ends with Bruttenholm, watching over Hellboy's recovery, sitting next to him.
==Characters==
===The Good===
* '''Trevor Bruttenholm''': Former director of operations for the [[BPRD]] who is significantly older than he was on one of his first missions where he encountered the vampire Erzebet Ondrushko. Defiant in surrendering to his age, he rallies the BPRD on a strange hunch on a haunting that turns out to be an attempted resurrection of his dreaded worst enemy.
* '''Hellboy''': The BPRD's top agent, a demon discovered in the 1940s during an attempt for the Nazi regime to finally win World War II. He looks to Professor Bruttenholm as a father figure and seems to be the most worried about him being hurt on this mission. He is practically indestructible but is severely wounded during his fight with the evil goddess [[Hecate]].
* '''Sydney Leach''': A newcomer and a junior agent in the BPRD. He is awkward, but reliable, and has an innate ability to detect metal by touch allowing him to find hidden doorways and switches, he is both nervous and excited to be with BPRD's "A-Team" for this mission.
* '''Abe Sapien''': An aquatic humanoid who seems completely out of his element here, he is made the victim of the harpy sisters and is nearly made into a fish fillet, he manages to escape using his athletic skills and is one of Hellboy's best friends.
* '''Liz Sherman''': A hotheaded [[telekinetic]] who can generate and wield fire at will. She is the voice of reason with the other agents, but often short changes her ability to maintain control of her fire. She manages to save all of them at one point or another throughout the film.


===The Bad===
==Cast==
* [[Ron Perlman]] – [[Hellboy]]
* '''Hecate''': From the mythological goddess of witchcraft and sorcery, Hecate spends much of her time questioning why the powerful demon king's son Hellboy chooses to live in the world of men. Putting him through many tests and ultimately pitting herself against him. She has the ability to rapidly change form, and is very strong. Her chosen form is that of a [[Nāga]] or serpent and often summons other serpents to do her bidding.
* [[Doug Jones (actor)|Doug Jones]] – [[Abe Sapien]]
* '''Father Lupescu''': Though ultimately choosing the side of right, Father Lupescu was once a righteous man of the cloth whose faith was put into doubt through the actions of Erzebet Ondrushko. Though Professor Bruttenholm assured him that the faith of the one holding the cross gave him power over vampires, he ran, unwittingly becoming a victim in a plot to resurrect Erzebet. The harpy-hags transform him into a [[werewolf]] to do their bidding, and use it as a punishment when he tells the BPRD too much. He redeems himself after his death at the hands of Hellboy and is seen alongside Anna whose fate he believed was his fault many years ago.
* [[Selma Blair]] – [[Liz Sherman]]
* '''Erzebet Ondrushko''': A selfish, vain and evil woman who is revealed to have been turned into a vampire by Hecate so she can revel in her beauty for eternity. She often bathed in the blood of her victims to restore any looks that wore away due to aging. She was destroyed by Trevor Bruttenholm in the 1930s, but eventually met resurrection. Thanks to his resourcefulness and willingness to be put into harm's way, he had the opportunity to destroy her again.
* [[John Hurt]] – [[Trevor Bruttenholm]]
* '''Harpy-Hags''': Two old [[hag]]s who are actually [[Harpy|harpies]] and Erzebet's lackies devoted into bringing her back. They are also followers of Hecate and are as vicious as they are conniving. One of them was accidentally killed by Hecate.
* [[Rob Paulsen]] – Sydney Leach; Anna's Fiancé
* [[Peri Gilpin]] – [[Kate Corrigan]]
* [[Jim Cummings]] – [[Tom Manning (comics)|Tom Manning]]
* [[James Arnold Taylor]] – Father Lupescu; Young Trevor Bruttenholm
* [[J. Grant Albrecht]] – Oliver Trumbolt
* [[Cree Summer]] – [[Hecate]]
* [[Kath Soucie]] – Erzebet Ondrushko
* [[Dee Dee Rescher]] – [[Harpy]]-[[Hag]] #1
* [[Grey DeLisle]] – Harpy-Hag #2; Anna


==Crew==
===Minor Characters===
* [[Ginny McSwain]] – Voice Director
* '''Anna''': Erzebet's last victim, a blushing bride to be who is kidnapped when going to try on her dress, prompting a search party consisting of Trevor Bruttenholm. She is one of the ghosts seen haunting the house in the Hamdens many years later.
* '''Anna's Fiance''': Not named in the film, he is at first brave and dedicated to finding Anna when she is taken, but upon seeing her body he loses his nerve and runs only to be killed by wolves.
* '''Oliver Trumbolt''': A rich man who had purchased a "haunted" mansion in the Hamdens. He had requested BPRD agents to visit as a publicity stunt to promote the oddity of the residence and was more than surprised when Hellboy and the rest of their top agents arrived. At first skeptical of the actual paranormal activities he quickly turns around believing he landed a goldmine, but his greed led to his ultimate demise.


==Cast==
==References==
* [[Ron Perlman]] - [[Hellboy]]
* [[Selma Blair]] - [[Liz Sherman]]
* [[Doug Jones (actor)|Doug Jones]] - [[Abe Sapien]]
* [[Peri Gilpin]] - [[Kate Corrigan|Professor Kate Corrigan]]
* [[John Hurt]] - [[Trevor Bruttenholm|Professor Trevor Bruttenholm]]
* [[Cree Summer]] - [[Hecate]]
* [[J. Grant Albrecht]] - Oliver Trumbolt
* [[Jim Cummings]] - [[Tom Manning]]
* [[Grey DeLisle]] - Anna, Harpy-Hag #2
* [[Rob Paulsen]] - Sydney Leach, Anna's Fiance
* [[Dee Dee Rescher]] - Harpy-Hag #1
* [[Kath Soucie]] - Erzsebet Ondrushko
* [[James Arnold Taylor]] - Young Trevor Bruttenholm, Father Lupescu

== References ==
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== External links ==
==External links==
* {{imdb title|id=0817910|title=Hellboy: Blood and Iron}}
* {{AllMovie title|358949|Hellboy: Blood and Iron}}
* {{Amg movie|358949|Hellboy: Blood and Iron}}
* {{IMDb title|id=0817910|title=Hellboy: Blood and Iron}}
* [http://hellboyanimated.typepad.com/ ''Hellboy'' Animated Series Production Diary]
* [http://hellboyanimated.typepad.com/ ''Hellboy'' Animated Series Production Diary]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110219011020/http://www.completehellboy.com/ The Hellboy Archive]
* [http://www.thedougjonesexperience.com/HBanimated~bloodandiron.htm The Doug Jones Experience]
* [http://www.CompleteHellboy.com/ The Hellboy Archive]


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Latest revision as of 23:20, 20 November 2024

Hellboy: Blood and Iron
DVD cover
Based on
Hellboy
by
Screenplay byKevin Hopps
Story byMike Mignola
Tad Stones
Directed byVictor Cook
StarringRon Perlman
Selma Blair
Doug Jones
John Hurt
Cree Summer
Peri Gilpin
Kath Soucie
Jim Cummings
ComposerChristopher Drake
Country of originUnited States
Japan
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersLawrence Gordon
Mike Richardson
Lloyd Levin
Stephen Brown
Morris Berger
John W. Hyde
ProducersScott D. Greenberg
Scott Hemming
Sidney Clifton
Guillermo del Toro (creative)
Mike Mignola (creative)
EditorMatt Steinauer
Running time75 minutes
Production companiesStarz Media
Revolution Studios
Film Roman
Madhouse
Original release
NetworkCartoon Network
ReleaseMarch 10, 2007 (2007-03-10)

Hellboy: Blood and Iron is the second film in the Hellboy Animated series (the first being Hellboy: Sword of Storms), written by Tad Stones and Mike Mignola. It first aired on March 10, 2007 on Cartoon Network, and aired again on July 19, 2008 to promote the release of Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and was released on DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment on June 12, 2007. The film's storyline is based in part upon the Hellboy: Wake the Devil storyline from the original comics.[1]

The title is a reference to Otto von Bismarck's famous "Blood and Iron speech".

Also included on the DVD is the short film Iron Shoes, which is based on the Hellboy story of the same name. The Iron Shoes demon is voiced by Dan Castellaneta.

Plot

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In 1939, shown in a series of flashbacks played in reverse chronological order, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm investigates a series of murders in Eastern Europe. Erzsebet Ondrushko, a vampire who bathed in the blood of innocents to stay young, was responsible. She had sold her soul to the Queen of Witches, the goddess Hecate, and most recently kidnapped the fiancée of one of the townsmen. When the search party, including the local priest, Father Lupescu, confronts Erzsebet in her castle, all members of the party are horribly killed, and Bruttenholm must face the vampire alone. He tricks her into the sunlight, effectively destroying her, but her ashes swirl back into the castle to find sanctuary in her iron maiden.

In the present day, an elderly Bruttenholm, overcome with memories of his encounter with Erzsebet, takes a particular interest in a publicity stunt case in the Hamptons on Long Island. A haunting has been reported in a mansion recently purchased by developer Oliver Trumbolt, a friend of a U.S. Senator with hands deep in the BPRD's budget, and considered a low priority. Bruttenholm insists that their most advanced team should go: Liz Sherman, Abe Sapien, Hellboy, and junior agent Sydney Leach as well as himself (to everyone's surprise). Bruttenholm does not explain his motives at first.

The BPRD team arrives at Trumbolt's site and sets up to investigate the haunting. Despite a few open windows, a creepy lifelike replica of Erzsebet, artifacts from her castle, and an old, suspiciously familiar-looking groundskeeper, everything seems normal until night falls and they each encounter strange ghostly apparitions, culminating in dozens of spirits of Erzsebet's former victims. Excited that he may have found a goldmine, Trumbolt ignores the professor's warnings and is attacked.

Using his abilities to detect metal, Leach finds a secret passageway through the house's cellar, inadvertently coming across Trumbolt's body, drained of blood. The blood has been placed in a bathtub, apparently for Erzsebet's revival. Bruttenholm and Liz head for the gardens to stop Hecate and Erzsebet's Harpy-Hags from summoning her back from the dead. The aged groundskeeper, actually Father Lupescu who is in thrall to the vampire, is transformed into a werewolf by the harpies and sent to attack the team. Abe is knocked out and taken by the harpies to be brutally tortured for experimentation while Hellboy fights the werewolf, ultimately killing it.

Liz and Bruttenholm are attacked, first by demonic wolves to delay them from stopping the ritual, then by Erzsebet in a restored but withered body, who knocks Liz out, beats Hellboy through a hole in the courtyard, and takes Bruttenholm back to the mansion. Erzsebet bathes in Trumbolt's blood and rejuvenates herself, but she begins to wither and decay again – Bruttenholm poisoned the blood with Holy Water. He stakes the vampire through the heart, and she turns back to dust. Freed from their torment, the spirits of the house depart in peace, including Father Lupescu.

Meanwhile, under the mansion, Hellboy meets Hecate, who is perplexed as to why he helps the mortals, and tries to lure him to the dark side. He bluntly refuses again and again, battling Hecate's snakes as he tries to re-enter the mansion. Erzsebet's death further enrages Hecate, who possesses the iron maiden, reshapes it into a semblance of her true form, and brutally attacks Hellboy. Abe escapes the harpies, after which they find Hecate fighting Hellboy; one is killed by Hecate's thrashing tail and the other flies away. Leach, Liz, and Abe attempt to help Hellboy stop the goddess, but are unsuccessful. A badly-wounded Hellboy realizes Hecate's weakness is the sun; he lures her outside, forcing her back into the darkness of her own realm, defeated. The film ends with Bruttenholm, watching over Hellboy's recovery, sitting next to him.

Cast

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Crew

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References

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  1. ^ "Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron". IGN. Retrieved 2010-11-15.
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