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An appeals board has decisively upheld the X rating given two weeks ago to Alan Parker's new movie, ''Angel Heart,'' and narrowly upheld by a different appeals board last week. Tri-Star, the distributor of ''Angel Heart,'' has already announced that the movie will be re-cut for an R rating.
''Angel Heart'' was rated X because of an act of lovemaking by Mickey Rourke and Lisa Bonet in which sex and violence are mixed and both actors in the end are bathed in blood. The board, composed of industry executives and theater owners, voted 8 to 6 in favor of the X rating. A two-thirds majority would have been needed to reverse the rating.