Angel Heart….entering the world of Voodoo, selling one’s soul, and priestesses begging Satan for his child…

• Genre: horror, Suspense, Thriller
• Director: Alan Parker
• Screenwriter: Alan Parker
• Starring: Lisa Bonet, Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro

In this detective mystery, Louis Cyphre (Lucifer) played by Robert Deniro hires a private investigator to find Johnny Favorite, a former client who owes collateral to Mr. Cyphre at his death for the help received at the beginning of his crooner career. Mr. Cyphre explains that Johnny Favorite was called to service in 1942 but returned a vegetable. Supposedly, Mr. Cyphre only wants to know if Johnny is alive or dead.
Lucifer is portrayed as a shrewd businessman, always professionally dressed and groomed with a cane and long almost white slightly sharpened manicured nails. He wears a beautiful ring of a large piece of amber with a silver pentagram on top. He appears to only eat hard boiled eggs, the religious symbol of souls. Lucifer seems a patient man only wanting to collect his promised collateral as the detective, Harold Angel, discovers the deep voodoo and Satanic cult all of Johnny Favorite’s friends were involved in. With each interview, a new corpse surfaces, grisly murdered by the person who is trying to hide the whereabouts of Johnny Favorite.

Although this film is confusing in its presentation of soul hopping, I found it quite intriguing all in all.

Spoiler Alert….
He eventually comes across Johnny Favorite’s daughter Epiphany by a VooDoo priestess. Epiphany, a 17 year old, already has a son from her night of mating with the Devil/Satan when she is “mounted by the gods” at the age of thirteen. At the end of the film, the child’s eyes change to a supernaturally glowing gold when the detective realizes he will get the electric chair for his connections with the grisly murders.
At the end of the investigation, Angel realizes that his soul was stolen by Johnny Favorite. Since Johnny had suffered amnesia when he took Angel’s soul, he absorbed all his memories for his own. Lucifer has come to collect his soul. Angel claims that he is an atheist and does not believe in God or Lucifer. Lucifer offers to show him his other side (horns and tail), but Angel declines. Instead, Lucifer’s eyes shift to a supernaturally glowing gold color.
Some of the story does not make sense. Johnny supposedly became a vegetable and got a new face due to horrific scars from his time spent in WWII. Then he was abducted by his socialite girlfriend who helped him find a victim for him to sacrifice to steal that man’s soul. Supposedly, Johnny ate Harold Angel’s heart while it was still beating. Thus Harold Angel should die unless he is left a zombie without a heart. There is a zombie like man who appears throughout the film who would have to be Harold Angel, but if Harold Angel’s memories were transported into Johnny’s body, then you would think he would have realized that he looked different. They said that Johnny had amnesia, but never Angel. Confusing.