David Harbour Debuts Darker Hellboy In Bloody New Trailer

Hellboy is back in a new trailer, and this time around, the reboot looks cooler than hell.


The gory clip is a harbinger of things to come for the series, which is a reboot of the franchise helmed by The Descent director Neil Marshall. Stranger Things' David Harbour is replacing previous star Ron Perlman as everyone's preference blood red demon, plus it looks like things are about to get a lot bloodier than they ever did with the last Hellboy flicks.


The red musical group trailer outlines Hellboy's origin story in a couple of quick beats, introducing us to the Nazis that summoned him from hell as they sought something to give them an advantage throughout World War II. As a substitute, the United States ended up adopting the demon, to be raised by the Bureau for Paranormal Statistics and Defense, a clandestine agency created to fight supernatural threats.


Those threats include a sorceress named Nimue, Queen of Blood (Milla Jovovich). She's got her eye on London, and wants to decimate it, essentially, because that's what villains do. Hellboy has to jump in and tidy home, certainly, however it looks like there's something of a romance that starts to blossom between them that's speedily shot down.


Set against a demonic cover of Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water," we visualize demons cleaving through human beings like a knife through butter, people getting cleaved in half like it ain't no thing.


This is a much darker vision of the comic book character we saw previously. And forget Spidey and Mary Jane's kiss in the rain — you need to be able to see Nimue and Hellboy's bloody make-out.


Hellboy isn't without his trademark humor though, as this "younger, rougher" version of the character is still attempting to find himself and figure out what kind of person he is, as Harbour noted in a recent interview with Empire. Take this scene, for example:


"Be my king. We belong with each other, you and I," says Nimue.


"We do, yet it's not gonna work, because I'm a capricorn and you're fucking nuts!" Hellboy shouts as he faces off against the sorceress in what looks like an essential climax for the movie. Yeah, certainly seems like they're incompatible.


Aside from Harbour and Jovovich stealing the show, fans can look forward to seeing actors like Daniel Dae Kim, Thomas Haden Church, Ian McShane, and Sasha Lane rounding out the cast.


This isn't the opening glimpse fans have had of the upcoming movie. We got our first look at Harbour as Hellboy back in December, with a somewhat comedic lilt — it lacked much of what fans imagined should make a "hard R" movie. However this new look at the film really turns up the gore factor to 11 and gives us something closer to what @we could have seen in terms of attitude and tone to 1/3 installment directed by Guillermo del Toro. Harbour looks flawlessly capable of taking the reins, and we're interested in seeing how this ride to hell plays out.


Hellboy is set to burn up theaters on April 12, 2019.