- De Niro went to Paris and shopped for some Devilish canes for his role.
- To get the rating from an 'X' down to an 'R', Alan Parker had to cut a few shots of Mickey Rourke's thrusting backside out.
- A lot of members of the crew who worked on this film where the same crew who had previously worked on the De Niro film "The Mission".
- In each scene De Niro is in, his nails get deliberately longer.
- The Spooky glowing eyes effect used at the end of the film was apparently done only by using coloured contact lenses.
- De Niro is in drag at the end of the film, and doesn't dress in drag again until "Cape Fear".
- There are a lot of chickens in the film, and the Director Alan Parker hates chickens.
- The cut-out heart used in Margaret's death scene is actually a real human heart which was 'borrowed' from a surgeon.
- While filming the 'Voodoo-cockle doodle doo' dance scene, one of the take numbers on the clapper board was 666.
- The old train Harry takes in to Louisiana we see pulling up in the scene change wasn't a working train and for filming it had to be pushed in by a proper train from behind.
- Louis Cyphre's chilling "how terrible ..." observation is paraphrased from Sophocles'
"Oedipus Rex", spoken by Teiresias. The correct quotation is:
Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!"
Most trivia taken from the excellent You Talking To Me? site.
Read about the Unofficial Theme to Angel Heart.
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Angel Heart was briefly released with this cover, which did not meet VPRC standards. It was withdrawn soon after release. Exactly what so offended the VPRC is not clear. The only possible thing seems to be the slightly bloody knife held by Mickey ... if anyone can confirm this please contact me. |