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Hellboy: Blood and Iron
Directed byVictor Cook
Tad Stones
Written byMike Mignola
Tad Stones
Produced byTad Stones
StarringRon Perlman
Selma Blair
Doug Jones
John Hurt
Peri Gilpin
Music byChristopher Drake
Distributed byIDT Entertainment
Release date
March 17, 2007 (2007-03-17)
Running time
75 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Hellboy: Blood and Iron is the second in the 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.[1]

The title is a reference to Otto von Bismarck's famous quote of "blood and iron."

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

In a series of flashbacks played in reverse chronological order it is related that in 1939, young Professor Bruttenholm investigated a series of murders in Eastern Europe. Erzsebet Ondrushko, a vampiress 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.

In the present day, the elderly Bruttenholm, having stepped down as director of the 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 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.

Much to Bruttenholm's horror, it turns out that the ghosts 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 devices from Erzsebet's castle in Europe in a display room of the house.

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 one of Bruttenholm's old friends, and a pair of harpy-hags 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. 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. The surviving harpy-hag manages to escape.

Cast

References

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