Director Alan Parker`s uncut version of the controversial movie Angel Heart will debut on home video this fall, complete with the 12 ``racy`` seconds that originally garnered the voodoo thriller an X rating.
The segment, a lovemaking scene between Mickey Rourke and Lisa Bonet, was trimmed from the film before its theatrical release after the Motion Picture Association of America refused to grant the Tri-Star movie an R rating.
The MPAA`s refusal to lift Angel Heart`s kiss-of-death rating sparked a furor among many national movie critics, many of whom deemed the condemned scene necessary to the film`s artistic aura.
``The scene cut from Angel Heart is both provocative and shocking, but it is by no means pornographic,`` says Ralph King, senior vice president of International Video Entertainment, which plans to release the cassette Sept. 24. ``We`re pleased to give the public the opportunity to see the film as Alan Parker originally meant the film to be viewed.``
For the faint of heart, IVE also plans to release the edited theatrical version at the same time.
Angel Heart stars Rourke as a 1950s New York gumshoe who becomes embroiled a series of brutal occult murders when he is hired by a dark character -- Robert DeNiro -- to track down a missing war-era singer. The Cosby Show`s Lisa Bonet makes her film debut as a New Orleans voodoo priestess.
