Angel Heart

Note to self: watch this again. Not right now, but sometime. Mickey Rourke as a gumshoe in the '50s (which looks a lot like the '80s, when this was made). Robert De Niro as the mysterious client, Louis Cypher (say it out loud, fast, and it gives something away). Lisa Bonet as a young sumthin' from New Orleans who doesn't mind dancing near a fire while she strips and drips chicken blood all over her. It also sets a creepy tone with a devil-in-Helsinki motif like "The Ninth Gate" and recurring images like whirring fans, broken mirrors, and an elevator going a symbolic direction. Not the best movie, and they could have shaved off about twenty minutes without losing anything, but they put some thought into it, and these days, you can't expect much more than that.