a 1989 American crime drama film directed by Walter Hill and starring Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Forest Whitaker and Morgan Freeman

Johnny Handsome is a 1989 American crime drama film directed by Walter Hill and starring Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Forest Whitaker and Morgan Freeman.

blues, folk, rock and roll, rockabilly and gospel

However, Johnny's songs and electrifying sound embodied blues, folk, rock and roll, rockabilly and gospel.

an excellent film that is true to the genre and spirit of Film Noir,Film Noir's dark,gritty and ugly

Johnny Handsome is an excellent film that is true to the genre and spirit of Film Noir,Film Noir's dark,gritty and ugly and the film works so well

international romantic thrillers

Johnny's signature combination, however, is international romantic thrillers.

Walter Hill's bluesymelancholic crime thriller

Walter Hill's bluesy, melancholic crime thriller Johnny Handsome is a grimy concoction of violent heists and brutal shootouts held together by a character study of facially deformed career criminal John Sedley (Mickey Rourke).

indie/pop/rock/folk

Johnny has a unique and very distinctive vibrato voice with powerful falsetto; Johnny's style of music is indie/pop/rock/folk.

a modest yarn and a movie interested in lofty issues of fate and destiny and rehabilitation that holds up nicely three decades on largely because its visual and thematic aesthetic is based in the style and sensibility of classic noir and hardboiled 1950s fiction rather than the hideous fashions of the late 1980s, which were monstrous in their own right

Johnny Handsome is at once a modest yarn and a movie interested in lofty issues of fate and destiny and rehabilitation that holds up nicely three decades on largely because its visual and thematic aesthetic is based in the style and sensibility of classic noir and hardboiled 1950s fiction rather than the hideous fashions of the late 1980s, which were monstrous in their own right.

from the film noir envelope of the 1940s with characters who dwell in sourpuss crash pads and regard bars as their personal salons

Johnny Handsome emerges from the film noir envelope of the 1940s, out of movies with bleak streets and bitter laughter, with characters who dwell in sourpuss crash pads and regard bars as their personal salons.

heavy metal

Johnny has played in different music genres including blues, rockabilly, rock, jazz and heavy metal.

mixture of traditional honky tonk

Johnny's style is mixture of traditional honky tonk with a healthy dose of punk rock rhythm, speed, and attitude.

bluegrass

Johnny is a skilled and versatile artist with roots in traditional and original music in a wide variety of styles from movie scores to world music, electronica to folk and bluegrass.

rock and country

Johnny believes in versatility, and is known for Johnny's ability to play in a wide variety of styles, ranging from reggae and jazz fusion to rock and country.

like a more brash version of glossy R&B acts from the late 90s to early 00's

Johnny's music is like a more brash version of glossy R&B acts from the late 90s to early 00's.

a lurid, vulgar, B-movie pulp with panache

I mean that as high praise rather than criticism: Johnny Handsome is a lurid, vulgar, B-movie pulp with panache.

romantic crooner

John is a romantic crooner, Broadway showstopper, classical performer as well as a wonderful impersonator and hilarious comic.

in the western genre

Johnny’s craft spans a broad spectrum in the western genre, including novels, short stories, non-fiction tales and articles, as well as reviews, interviews, and photography.

country-rock with a melody that sticks to your mind

Johnny's music is country-rock with a melody that sticks to your mind.

blues balladry

Johnny's urbane yet passionate style, a sort of pop croon adapted to a slick West Coast kind of blues balladry, proved enormously popular, although as a pianist, Johnny could and often did explore boogie-woogie and jump blues on Johnny's b-sides.

gospel, country, rock, folk

Spanning gospel, country, rock, folk and even to the grunge and alternative music, Johnny remains a timeless icon.

weird fiction or dark fantasy

Johnny is looking for novels (50k words) and novellas (20k - 50k words) that twist the conventions of horror, weird fiction or dark fantasy in new and interesting ways.