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

I saw this movie when it came out, it blew me away. I just saw it again recently, some 29 years later...it still holds up pretty good.The photography of Michael Seresin is just superb, moody, dark, appropriate.The realism of the sets, costumes and props brings authenticity through out the whole picture.Trevor Jone's score brings an ethereal feel through out the whole show.A tour de force by Alan Parker.Mickey Rourke at his best. Tough and vulnerable at the same time, Mickey balances his character's emotions beautifully.A Robert De Niro, like you've never seen him before.Last but not least, the stunning Lisa Bonnet in the role which got here kicked out of "The Cosby Show" -- ironic ain't it?

First of all it's not a horror movie. So I don't get why it is categorized in this genre. It's a mystery thriller, with good actors, but even though the idea of the story is not bad I thought it was poorly executed. But I can't blame the actors because Mickey Rourke is a good actor in Angel Heart, nothing bad to say about him. Normally I don't like remakes but for once I think that this movie could be much better if another director would remake it now. In this version there are actually too much things that don't add up or at least are way too complicated to understand. And to me that's not entertaining. It's too bad because the idea was really good. Even though I actually figured out the whole story after just ten minutes it was still hard to follow. I expected more from Angel Heart so I'm slightly disappointed.

I watched the movie back in 1987 in Madrid with a group of friends.The theater was crowded. When the movie finished and the lights turned on, nobody moved from their seats. the film was so shocking, deep, intelligent, terrifying, that simply we were not able to assimilate what we saw.This is not a usual horror movie. Is extremely psychological. Some days after watching the movie i was under the influence of this feeling: a kind of unusual fear, which lies deeply at the bottom of our subconscious . Ancestral, ancient fear. In order to cause this feeling, the director conceived a claustrophobic atmosphere, highly mysterious and disturbing: spiral staircases, shadows, opening and closing doors, intense and visceral soundtrack full of subliminal sounds, and most important: an intelligent and totally different plot from what we've seen so far.It is also a story about karma and it's remuneration. The discovery of who we really are. Fate.10/10