S9E4: ANGEL HEART
Episode description
Alan Parker's 1987 ANGEL HEART contains explicit sex, voodoo rituals, amnesia, chickens, and a few shocking twists that your hosts figured out at different points. In today's episode, they reveal when they knew what and compare their impressions of this not-quite-successful but still semi-legendary Hollywood thriller, now more than thirty years old. Combining elements of gothic horror and film noir, featuring performances from early period Mickey Rourke, mid-period Robert DeNiro, and only-period Lisa Bonet, Angel Heart is worth considering for its religious motifs, keen historical detail, uncomfortable datedness, sometimes horrifying imagery, sometimes goofy dialogue, and its relationship to films like Devil's Advocate, Jacob's Ladder (which we covered in season 3) plus Sixth Sense and even Big Lebowski.
Episode links:
- Angel Heart on IMDb
- Angel Heart on Wikipedia
- Roger Ebert 1987 review
- Little White Lies on Angel Heart
- Dread Central on Angel Heart
- Den of Geek on Angel Heart
- EitDoH on Angel Heart
- Angel Heart screenplay
- Alan Parker production diary
- On Angel Heart and Memento
- On Angel Heart and Bioshock Infinite
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