One of the most frustrating decisions in the history of the comic book movie boom was the call to discard the conclusion of Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy trilogy in favor of a reboot, which yielded deservedly disastrous results.
To be fair, the adaptations of Mike Mignola’s beloved source material hardly set the box office alight, but both the opening installment and sequel The Golden Army ended up being profitable once the numbers had been crunched – thanks largely to each chapter performing extremely well on home video.