Scary as hell but also something of a hoot, with a mordant sense of humor and some of the genre’s greatest character names.

| Nov 5, 2022

Alan Parker, who seemed incapable of making a technically sloppy film, creates a thick mood of menace.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 31, 2022

..an essential purchase for fans of all the considerable talents involved, and for horror aficionados in general...

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 17, 2022

One of the great New Orleans movies, as well as one of the film's that inspired Charlie and Donald Kaufman's 'The Three" (35th anniversary)

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2022

Angel Heart is a grim, funny, moving, clever and nearly ageless film.

| Nov 18, 2021

Angel Heart is a stylish, arresting, and beautifully sculpted thriller.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 3, 2020

Angel Heart has more style than substance. But what style!

| Nov 5, 2019

Parker's text is impossibly rich, impossibly complex.

| Nov 5, 2019

'The banality of evil' is a phrase one hears. It doesn't mean that you can represent evil with cliches.

| Apr 9, 2019

A sexy and loopy nightmare drenched in blood.

| Dec 7, 2018

[This genre] is especially satisfying for me because it mixes menace from two sources. There is no femme more fatale than Mr. Scratch. There is no noir darker than the promise of the pits of hell.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 26, 2017

The book's so good it deserves a better movie, but Rourke's performance is such that Angel Heart stands out from the necromancy movie crowd.

| Oct 19, 2012

Offbeat Faustian voodoo tale about the descent of a sleazy private detective into hell.

| Original Score: B | Oct 5, 2011

Metaphysical and emotional anemia is an important tradition in cult horror/mystery, a category the daffy plot twists and crimson, incestuous excesses of Angel Heart sit quite cozily in.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 22, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 14, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jun 15, 2005

A hot little movie with even hotter performances

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2005

Seriously creepy bayou noir with more twists than you can shake a chicken bone at.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 22, 2004