Angel Heart: Noir That Curdles Into Damnation

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0000

Angel Heart is a detective film that slowly realises it is a horror film, and it lets the audience realise it a beat before the detective does. Alan Parker’s 1987 adaptation of William Hjortsberg’s novel Falling Angel runs the machinery of hardboiled noir — the missing-person case, the shabby office, the femme fatale, the trail of corpses — while a second, older machine hums underneath it. That second machine is the folk tale of the man who sells his soul and forgets the terms.

Mickey Rourke - vo.rs

Angel Heart: Noir That Curdles Into Damnation