It takes the Jones/Pine music and uses it as an aural haze, weaving in key bits of dialogue as well as some of the dirty jazz and swamp blues music from the picture, including Brownie McGhees beautiful Rainy Day blues legend McGhee plays the doomed Toots Sweet in the film and sings this rambling track, moments before he meets his unfortunate, member-removing demise That soundtrack album was released in 1987 from Island Records and its a marvel in and of itself. And while Rourkes performance is at the core of its voodoo, along with unforgettable supporting work from DeNiro and Bonet, its Trevor Jones chilling, ambient score that gels it all together and cuts the deepest.ĪNGEL HEARTs music is a meltdown of deep drones, disconnected whispers, Courtney Pines dissonant saxophone stings and fragmented haunting 1930s crooner tunes (specifically Glen Grays big band chestnut Girl of My Dreams) that continually wash over Parkers hypnotic, obsessive images from the minute the film fades into its shocking, opening gutter/murder scene to Angels final credit crawl elevator descent. As he sinks deeper and deeper into an emotional (and increasingly likely), supernatural, quagmire, Angel begins to seriously question his sanity and, ultimately, his very identity.Īn eerie, dream-like impression of William Hjortsbergs more hard-boiled pulp novel “Falling Angel”, ANGEL HEART moves like a bloody mist through the mind and stains the senses deep red. Without a flicker of hesitation, Angel accepts the high paying job and, as the ensuing, Harlem and New Orleans bound trails toward Favorite run both hot and cold (and often, very wet and red) he soon finds himself knee deep in a melting pot of bloody murder, taboo sex, Satanism, voodoo rites and human sacrifice. Seems this ever-so-slightly sinister gentleman gave the MIA Favorite some kind of career boost before the war and now he wants to collect on the debt. that is until he meets the mysterious Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro).Ī suave, sophisticated and dangerous presence, the finely tailored (and sharply manicured) Cyphre commissions the down but not quite out Angel to locate a once famous, now forgotten crooner named Johnny Favorite. Angels life is a nickel and dime world of cheap crooks, cheating husbands and insurance scams a patchwork of pick up snoop jobs that barely sustain his livelihood. A grimy, suffocating post-war metropolis whose labyrinthine streets and dirty back- alleys skid row gumshoe Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) reluctantly calls home.

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