What do you do when you're a Hellboy fan and you're assigned to write about it for readers of Christianity Today?

Flashback review with footnotes! Here's what I wrote about Hellboy 20 years ago this month... and what I think of it now.

In April 2004, I was writing film reviews regularly for Christianity Today, and I’d get comments every week from readers who believed that almost all movies were toxic doses of “worldliness” designed to corrupt vulnerable moviegoers.

So, you can imagine that anything called Hellboy — especially a fantasy film about a demon who fights crime — was not goin…