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Hellishly great effects: Double Negative creates and animates fantastical characters for Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army.(Creatures)

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Imagine Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro's version of hell on earth and you have an inkling of the visual feast in his latest film, Universal Pictures' sci-fi action thriller Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Written by del Toro and Mike Mignola, who wrote and illustrated "Hellboy," the original Dark Horse Comic, the sequel to del Toro's 2004 Hellboy pits a mythical world against humanity in a bid to rule the planet.

Actor Ron Perlman once again plays the tough-talking, hell-spawned hero who must save the earth. Fighting alongside the bright red and appropriately horned Hellboy are two other supernatural beings in the FBI's Bureau of Paranormal Research & ...

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