God damn, it is truly amazing what a little editing can do.

When the trailer for Neil Marshall‘s Hellboy hit earlier this week, we were a little bit confused. Mostly because of the tone presented by the trailer, which seemed way more in line with Guillermo del Toro’s movies than we had been expecting. After all, the idea was to ditch del Toro’s vision and go harder and darker with this one… but man did the trailer not convey that.

Enter fan Tim Gonzales, who has re-edited the trailer into one that’s more like what we expected from this movie. He scrubbed all the humor, amping up the darkness in the process.

Gonzales explains, “What got me super excited was how Marshall hyped up that the film was going to be a hard R, leaning more towards the horror genre with a lot of gore and violence. With Marshall’s portfolio of films, yeah, my expectations were pretty high. I figured the reboot was going to be an “edgier” take. Darker. Gritty. Grounded. Yeah those buzzwords. Whatever. I was into it. But from the new trailer it looks like more of the same? Maybe my hype was misguided/misinformed. The action and creature design look spot-on though. That said, I was motivated to cut the trailer footage into a “darker” teaser that’s less upbeat and more eerie to better reflect my initial excitement when the reboot was first announced.”

Check out Gonzales’ pitch-perfect fan edit below!