It's so hard to pick a favorite "Hellboy" story, whether comics or movies. The hero's signature tale is "The Corpse," a 24-page comic from 1996 drawn and plotted by Hellboy's creator Mike Mignola.

“But, so far, we’ve had two horror movie directors make Hellboy movies and we’ve never gotten a horror movie.” Ketchup Entertainment (Hypnotic) nabbed distribution rights to the movie this ...