HELLBOY
Syfy, 9:00 p.m. ET
This 2004 movie is entertaining on its own merits, and a film that beat to the punch most of the current wave of movies based on graphic novels. There are two reasons to watch it at this moment in pop-culture time. One, to catch Ron Perlman’s starring performance, as a demon turned superhero, four years before he co-starred on FX’s Sons of Anarchy, in a role he recently, uh, relinquished. And the other is to catch an early, stylish directorial effort by Guillermo del Toro, who tomorrow night unveils a new TV series, The Strain, based on a series of novels he co-wrote with Chuck Hogan. Not graphic novels. Novels.