7.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Horror, Mystery • 1987 • 113 min • Adults (18+)
Angel Heart (1987)
Angel Heart (1987)
Overview
Angel Heart is a 1987 neo-noir horror film in which a Brooklyn private detective, played by Mickey Rourke, traces a missing singer through Harlem jazz clubs, New Orleans, and Louisiana bayou country steeped in voodoo. The trail leads somewhere deeply personal and damning. The film earns a Neutral label because its signals genuinely pull in opposite directions. The supernatural framework draws on Faustian and broadly Christian ideas of sin and judgment, giving it a moral weight that is hard to call progressive. At the same time, its treatment of family is deliberately grotesque, and the story centers on occult ritual rather than traditional spirituality. The competing currents cancel each other out more than they reinforce any single worldview.
Starring Cast
Mickey Rourke • Robert De Niro • Lisa Bonet
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
7.2
Overview
Angel Heart is a 1987 neo-noir horror film in which a Brooklyn private detective, played by Mickey Rourke, traces a missing singer through Harlem jazz clubs, New Orleans, and Louisiana bayou country steeped in voodoo. The trail leads somewhere deeply personal and damning. The film earns a Neutral label because its signals genuinely pull in opposite directions. The supernatural framework draws on Faustian and broadly Christian ideas of sin and judgment, giving it a moral weight that is hard to call progressive. At the same time, its treatment of family is deliberately grotesque, and the story centers on occult ritual rather than traditional spirituality. The competing currents cancel each other out more than they reinforce any single worldview.
Starring Cast
Mickey Rourke • Robert De Niro • Lisa Bonet
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The film explores themes of sin, damnation, and the inescapable consequences of one's actions within a supernatural neo-noir framework. Its narrative focuses on individual spiritual corruption and judgment, rather than engaging with explicit political ideologies or societal critiques.
Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High
The film features visible diversity within its cast, including prominent roles for actors from diverse backgrounds. Its narrative explores themes of identity and the occult without explicitly critiquing traditional identities or centering on DEI themes.
Secondary
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Confidence: High
The film portrays a profoundly dysfunctional and incestuous family unit, where a cursed lineage and extreme perversions of family relationships are central to the narrative, fundamentally undermining traditional family norms.
Christianity: Negative
Confidence: High
The film portrays a world where Christian concepts of sin, damnation, and a literal devil are terrifyingly real. It emphasizes the inescapable consequences of a soul's corruption and loss to malevolent forces, offering no counterbalancing themes of redemption or grace. The narrative depicts the ultimate spiritual downfall as a horrifying and irreversible reality.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The film Angel Heart, 1987, does not feature identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its narrative. The story centers on a private investigator's journey through a complex mystery, with no elements related to queer identity present in the plot or character arcs.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
Angel Heart, a 1987 neo-noir psychological thriller, does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative centers on a private investigator's journey into a world of voodoo and satanism, uncovering a dark secret about his own identity. The film's plot and character arcs are focused on supernatural elements and identity concealment, not gender identity or transition.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film "Angel Heart" is an adaptation of the novel "Falling Angel." All major characters retain the same gender as established in the original source material. There are no instances of characters canonically one gender being portrayed as a different gender in the film.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film's central characters, including Harry Angel, Louis Cyphre, and Epiphany Proudfoot, maintain their established racial identities as depicted in the original source material. No instances of a character's race being changed from prior canon are present.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.2
7.1
Critic Ratings
8.2
6.1
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