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  Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★ 50

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Mickey Rourke as Harry Angel, a 1950's chain smokin' gumshoe private detective, hired by the devilish deceiving devious Robert De Niro as Louis Cyphre, to locate a missing person who owes Mr Cyphre a debt. Harry soon realizes this is much more than a missing person case, and he finds himself the number one suspect in a series of grizzly murders. Harry learns the hard way that sometimes people make the wrong deal, with the wrong person. Angel Heart is from genius director, Alan Parker, and features a moody blues New Orleans jazz soundtrack, witty dialogue, gorgeous cinematography, voodoo, chickens, and a smokin' hot Cosby kid. Now, who wants a deviled egg?

  Have you seen Mickey Rourke lately? Yeah, he's…

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★★½ 8

  There's something weird about this Louis Cyphre guy, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

  Neo noir occult mystery about the horrors of fan death.

  "Are you an atheist?"
  "Yes, I am. I'm from Brooklyn."

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★

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  Alan Parker's great contribution to this was moving it to New Orleans, suffusing it with not just mystery but some good old fashioned exoticism (I'm willing to admit it's vaguely problematic representationally, but still). What's even more fascinating is how much of this predates JACOB'S LADDER and yet with its startling patience and bursts of violence and chiaroscuro, you'd be forgiven for mistaking it as an Adrian Lyne movie. However, unlike JACOB'S, it's a better movie once you know the twist. Lisa Bonet was an all-time great 80's ingenue.

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  Review by Piratenlehrer ★★★★ 6

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  "Erinnern Sie sich zufällig an den Namen Johnny Favorite?"

  "Soweit ich mich erinnere, war er durch eine Kriegsverletzung nervenkrank geworden. Der Mann war ein hoffnungsloser Fall."

  New York, 1955. Der abgeranzte Privatdetektiv Harry Angel erhält den Auftrag, den seit Jahren (Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges) vermissten Schnulzensänger Johnny Favorite (Johnny die Goldkehle) ausfindig zu machen. Doch die Zeugen fallen einer nach dem anderen brutalen Morden zum Opfer. Verzweifelt und als Täter verdächtigt, versucht Angel den Job loszuwerden. Doch sein Auftraggeber, der Geschäftsmann Louis Cyphre, erhöht immer wieder sein Honorar. Der Routinefall wird zum Höllentrip…

  "Sie müssen auf diesen Johnny ziemlich scharf sein." - "Ich mag keine unbezahlten Rechnungen."

  Mit dem 35-jährigen Mickey Rourke (9 ½ Wochen, Barfly, Auf den Schwingen des…

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  Review by pd187 ★★★★★ 2

  mickey rourke pronounces cyphré like "guy fieri"

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  Review by Ian West ★★★★ 10

  Supernatural occult noir done just how I like it: overly sweaty with generous servings of NYC and New Orleans fantastique! 

  I just picked up the blu and decided to revisit this after what seems like years... and since I didn't get into my usual Noirvember mode this year, I decided to pour myself a few glasses of cheap scotch, smoke a bunch of cigarettes, and watch this in black & white. It was a pretty damn perfect way to end a hectic week, I needed this. Also, “Johnny Favorite” is such a great name.

  
  LOUIS CYPHRE

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  Review by chavel ★★★★★ 10

  Black magic and satanic ritual had their first-class cinematic due in Alan Parker’s 1987 thriller Angel Heart. Mickey Rourke (“9 ½ Weeks,” “Diner”) stars as private detective Harry Angel, with Lisa Bonet (from TV’s “The Cosby Show”) as voodoo priestess Epiphany, and Robert DeNiro (“The Untouchables”) as the shadowy and powerful Louis Cyphre. Adopting the old story of a gumshoe who starts out on a harmless assignment, the hero is inexorably propelled into a myriad of danger.

  What makes Angel Heart exceptional is the amount of nightmarish surrealism that gooses the aura of malevolence. Rourke plays Harry Angel as the kind of brash guy willing to risk damnation just so he can get his pay. As a result of unwilling…

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  Review by LouisDeCyphre ★★★★★ 2

   𝕬𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖑  𝕳𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙
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  Harry Angel🪽(Mickey Rourke) :
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  (before the egg) ➜  " i know who i am "
  (after the egg)    ➜  " I KNOW WHO I AM "

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  Review by 20oldboy03 ★★★★½ 12

  Sie brennt zwischen meinen Fingern ab.
  Weicht brennend Zug um Zug um Zug meine Haut um das weiße Papier auf.
  Färbt im wegbrennen meiner Pigmente meine Epidermis.
  Zwei punktierte Stellen als Brandmall meiner Sucht.
  Einer Sucht der ich heute wieder fröne, bestellt zu sitzen, der verführerischen Stimme meines potenzialen Mandanten zu lauschen, abzuwägen im Verneinen, bejahend im Nein.

  Ein Auftrag zur Reise meines verdrängten Selbst.
  Ihr Bote der sich mit dem Glauben verschleiernde Erzengel brennend niedergefallen zur Dunkelheit verdammt und aufsteigend zum Herrn der Finsternis.

  Ich rauche Zug um Zug um Zug wie der in den Dreck schiebende Karren.
  Sitze am Steuer auf den Straßen New Yorks, um mich herum die aus dem Leben gesprengten Herbergen aus Fleisch und Blut.…

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  Review by Yakuzabro ★★★½ 3

  Robert De Niro eating an egg is so far the most disgusting thing I've seen in 2020.

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  Review by Helen ★★★★ 6

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  I was soooo not prepared for that ending!

  You could give me a southern, gothic / noir mystery dripping with occult any day and I’d be happy... but this was actually pretty great.

  It’s a hallucinatory voodoo nightmare that surpassed any expectation I had and ended up surprising me a few times.

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  Review by 𝙿𝚊𝚘𝚕𝚘 𝙼𝚊𝚌𝙶𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚗 | 🇮🇹 ★★★★½ 2

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  «How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise» is said at one point in the film. It is a quote from Oedipus Rex, chosen to to explain the direct link between William Hjortsberg's novel, from which Angel Heart is based, and Sophocles' tragedy. Through the archetype of the man who conducts an investigation unknowingly going in search of himself, the film tells the descent into hell of Harry Angel, a shabby private investigator in New York in the early 1950s, who is hired by a disturbing Louisiana lawyer to find a singer mysteriously disappeared at the end of the war. Angel Heart is a black tale, which - masterfully intertwining hard-boiled with satanic horror - stages…