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Angel Heart

Angel Heart (1987)

March. 06,1987
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7.2
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R
| Horror Mystery

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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beerstan
1987/03/06

This was a great movie for me. Why? Because I've only seen it once and 20 years later I still remember the details and the disturbing impact it had on me.On the night of viewing I went to bed and had nightmares as a result of this movie.Alan Parker is one of the great directors. Rourke is a great actor. The rest of the cast including De Niro were excellent but, unlike Parker and Rourke, they were replaceable.The horror of this movie is not revealed until the climax, which makes it different to the standard fare and puts it well into the A category.The plot of a sleazy private detective being hired by a creepy and somewhat malevolent client to track down a debtor who has disappeared is soon revealed to be a mere vehicle designed to unveil the real story. What we are left with is a shocking and hellish view of the world as seen through the eyes of a psychopath.For Parker, this was an even better film than Midnight Express. For Rourke, this was better than any of his films - far better than The Wrestler or Barfly

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Mr-Fusion
1987/03/07

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

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devesh pant
1987/03/08

Movie is created in late 80's they showed time of 50's and I watched in 2016 but director have done very good job with it. Still those movies which are created now and showing the old time are very similar to this movie. They used two great actors Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro but story more revolve around mickey. One thing they are showing is very irritating that is Robert's nails again and again they are showing it except that everything is good. So, movie starts with mickey and he is private detective, Robert is his client and gave him the work to find the missing person. Than mickey started his search and try contact everyone who knows him and he found out that guy is related to dark magic also. Who so he contacted is getting killed than he got scared to much. After sometime he found out that his client is Lucifer the demon and he is here to take him down to hell and that guy whom he is searching was himself. He lost his memory 12 year ago living under some other name and he was killing everyone by instruction of the demon. This movie is full of suspense and movie is little slow. If you are fan of mickey you will like this movie. Robert de niro has very less role.

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LeonLouisRicci
1987/03/09

This is an Extremely Disturbing Film. Nothing is On Screen to Lighten the Mood, in Fact the Mood is Relentlessly Dark, Dirty, and Disheveled. Mickey Rourke's Harry Angel makes Colombo Look GQ-Neat. He is a Mess in a Mess of a Case that Involves Alternate Identities, Voodoo Occultism, Satan Worship, Murder, and as in Most Private Eye Film Noirs, a Missing Person.This is a Neo-Noir with Supernatural and Horror Elements, Psychological Aberrations and some of the Grittiest Settings this side of a Bourbon Street from Hades. Director Alan Parker's Stylistic Excess is on Full Display in this Gut-Wrenching Horror Film Hybrid with a Bloody Template and Characters Straight Out of the Carnival Side Show.It is not an Easy Film to Watch. There are Many Unsettling Scenes and some Very Creepy Goings On. It Hits all the Right Notes and Delivers one of the Most Underrated Movies of Recent Times. The Terrible Tone was Probably too much for some Patrons and Critics because it just Never Lets Up and gets More Maniacal and Morbid as the Movie moves along.If it is Film-Noir, Horror, and the Supernatural You Seek, Look no where else, this is an Acidic, Atrophying, Amalgamation of Genres that is Bathed in Blood and takes no Prisoners. The Sharp Angles and Cutting Cinema-Graphic Frames are Shadowed in Dread and there is No Escape for the Living or the Dead.

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