Angel Heart

1987 "It will scare you to your very soul."

Angel Heart

7.2 | 1h53m | R | en | Horror

Harry Angel, a down-and-out Brooklyn detective, is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.

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7.2 | 1h53m | R | en | Horror , Mystery | More Info

Released: March. 06,1987 | Released Producted By: Carolco Pictures , Winkast Film Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://alanparker.com/film/angel-heart/

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Cast

Mickey Rourke , Robert De Niro , Lisa Bonet

Director

Kristi Zea

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Carolco Pictures , Winkast Film Productions

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Reviews

loveablejohn-26233 This movie was excellent overall with the actors playing their roles well especially Mickey Rourke and Lisa Bonet who both did an outstanding job in their roles. The script was well written and the cinematography was excellent with location shooting in both New York and New Orleans which is why I gave it 10 stars. Also the dvd that I watched had two commentaries one by the director and another by Mickey Rourke which were excellent along with a documentary about voodoo and interviews with the cast and the director along with a photo gallery.

marieinkpen I love Mickey Rourke, I love Robert de Niro. Rourke is OK, such a lovely face, such presence, always watchable. But de Niro is crap - not helped at all by a terrible script and a clichéd role. What was he thinking? Could he have ever been so desperate for work? Very confusing film, I couldn't work out what was real and what wasn't, and the ending doesn't make sense to me - if Angel is really Johnny what is the relevance of him killing all those people? Or is it so they don't identify him? I have no idea. If he had changed into looking like the soldier then wouldn't Margaret have recognised him anyway? It could have been good but cinematically is so clichéd and irritating. And I am not a huge fan of seeing chickens killed, thank you very much.

Mr-Fusion The only thing I'd known about "Angel Heart" before watching it was that Mickey Rourke plays a hard-luck private eye in an '80s noir. Terror noir's more like it; this thing crosses genres like nobody's business. It is a detective story, but also a plunge into the muddied waters of New Orleans voodoo culture, and the underworld plays a huge part, but to say anything beyond that is giving the movie away. A lot of this movie is creepy imagery, and its pacing is leisurely, but the draw is that you're just as befuddled as Rourke.And *then* Alan Parker hits you square in the mouth with the twist ending; unfurling in not one, but two different surprises. Words can't really describe the scares one feels when witnessing bleeding walls or a baby with Thriller eyes, but those chills are genuine. And I don't normally sit through the end credits, but I did here; til the very end.I just couldn't look away.8/10

Leofwine_draca As dark and brooding a slice of American Gothic as you could wish for, ANGEL HEART is one of the best straight horror outings to come out of the late '80s – a time when most genre offerings were cheesy, rubbery outings of stupidity. ANGEL HEART is in essence a mood piece. Set during the 1950s, it chronicles the efforts of a private detective to track down a missing person who soon finds himself in some very dark places. With a string of unpleasant sex and violence scenes, excellent direction from the always-good Alan Parker and some quite wonderful performances, this is a real classic. There aren't that many films that deal with modern-day voodoo in a non-biased way so this one's a real treat.Parker is adept at crafting atmosphere and you can almost smell the cigarette smoke in this seedy, grubby little film. Mickey Rourke, in a career-best performance, is Harry Angel, the protagonist. Angel is a pretty unpleasant guy who thinks nothing of using violence as a method and yet Rourke embodies him with a raw humanity that makes us warm to him from the start. Although he's the archetypal tough guy he projects an air of bruised vulnerability that makes him riveting to see on screen. He has some great supporting actors with him, too; Lisa Bonet excels in a layered performance as the voodoo-practising Epiphany Proudfoot; Charlotte Rampling as a fortune teller; finally Robert De Niro, as great as ever as the sinister Louis Cyphre.The film is pretty slowly paced but laced with moments of action and violence that breathe life into it. My attention never wavered for a second. There are occasional missteps – I could have done without the 'glowing eye' stuff that takes place at the climax, that only serves to cheapen the effect; good when used in films like FRIGHT NIGHT, but not here! But the handling of Rourke's gradual realisation as he pieces together the mystery and his final understanding of the true horror of his situation is top notch and the film then ends on an unforgettable piece of imagery. Altogether a great work and a film I thoroughly enjoyed.