Movies like Hellboy: The Crooked Man

“Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024) is a 2020s American dark-fantasy rooted in folk-horror tradition. It stages a stranded-odd-couple confrontation with a witch-haunted community, rendered in muted-earthy palettes and high-contrast chiaroscuro to dramatize a past-linked demonic figure. The film reframes folklore into a psychological genre exercise that interrogates inherited trauma.”