Devilish stories need less Gothic visuals

Rating: Null/10 (21 January 2005)

Stories involving the devil have always terrified movie audiences but the best ones are the ones involving genuine thrills and not a Gothic build up of visuals. Sometimes what you see is less important than what you know psychologically in a movie. 'Hellboy' has too much obvious fan fare and not enough left to the imagination. How many comic book films do we need to see shoved in our faces with enough computer effects to fill a dozen movies. While film makers have to remain loyal to the comic book source from which they draw, they still have a responsibility to inject their own form of vision and why does that always have to have such a high decibel level?