
Harry Angel has a new case: to find a man called Johnny Favorite. Except things aren't quite that simple, and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that, amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really, really nasty.... (Full plot summary below)
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Harry Angel has a new case: to find a man called Johnny Favorite. Except things aren't quite that simple, and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that, amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really, really nasty.
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| Den of GeekTony Sokol[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. |
| Screen QueensCaroline MaddenA sexy and loopy nightmare drenched in blood. |
| Chicago TribuneJohanna SteinmetzIt has the unsettled logic of a nightmare, in which nothing fits and everything seems inevitable and there are a lot of arrows in the air and they are all flying straight at you. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenEven if it may be a specious work at its core, Angel Heart still proves a mightily absorbing mystery, a highly exotic telling of a small-time detective's descent into hell, with Faustian theme, heavy bloodletting and pervasive grimness. |
| EmpireIan NathanA diabolical treat with Rourke and De Niro in fine form. |
| Film4Richard LuckThe 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. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelIt would all be laughable if the evil deeds and premature deaths and withered witch doctor hands led us to more than the protagonist’s unnecessarily messy self-discovery. As it is, it’s mostly just gratingly pointless. |
| MovieholeClint MorrisA hot little movie with even hotter performances |
| Washington PostRita KempleyAs fascinating as it is frightful. But despite all the occult patter and tony trimmings, Angel Heart is bogus -- only the bogeyman again. |
| Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierMetaphysical 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. |