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Angel Heart1987

Name: Angel Heart
Genre: Psychological, Demonic & Possession, Witchcraft & Occult, Gothic
Released: 1987-03-06
Rating: 7.2

“It will scare you to your very soul.”

Directed by Alan Parker

7.2

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 7.2Rotten Tomatoes 82%Metacritic 61TMDB 7.1

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On the charts

#4·Top Horror Movies of 1987 #19·Top Demonic & Possession Films #22·Top Witchcraft & Occult Films #24·Top Horror Movies of the 1980s

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Year

1987

Runtime

113 min

Box Office

Budget

$17,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$17,185,954

Domestic

$17,185,632

🏆 2 wins & 5 nominations total

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

In 1955, a grimy Brooklyn private eye takes a seemingly routine missing-persons job that pulls him deep into the jazz-soaked backstreets of New Orleans and the fog-draped bayou beyond. His client is unnervingly refined — and the trail of witnesses he follows has a disturbing habit of turning up dead. Equal parts neo-noir and supernatural horror, Angel Heart builds a suffocating sense of dread as the detective edges closer to a truth far darker than any earthly crime. Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro anchor a film that blurs the line between investigation and confession.

Content: Graphic Violence, Sexual Content, Disturbing Imagery, Satanic Ritual Depictions, Drug Use