Dir. Alan Parker · Starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling, Stocker Fontelieu, Brownie McGhee · Music Trevor Jones
“It will scare you to your very soul.”
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A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.
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This film is a descent into a suffocating, dread-soaked nightmare. It's a hallucinatory neo-noir, weaving occult horror with a gritty, unsettling atmosphere. The slow-burn unraveling of identity and truth feels both sinister and deeply psychological, leaving a lasting, chilling impression.
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