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`Hellboy'.

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| April 01, 2004 | Rea, Steven | COPYRIGHT 2004 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Steven Rea

"There are things that go bump in the night, and we are the ones who bump back," says Professor Trevor "Broom" Bruttenholm (John Hurt), the brain behind the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. It's a clandestine wing of the FBI operating out of Newark, N.J. (Nope, Scully and Mulder aren't anywhere to be seen.)

The good professor of "Hellboy" is also the surrogate father of Hellboy _ a horned, tailed, crimson-hued hulk who was spawned in a 60-year-old experiment in black magic gone awry. Now an extremely grown-up grown-up, the hulking Hellboy chomps cigars, gobbles Baby Ruths, and uses his demonic powers to battle the forces of ...

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