A split image showing a close-up of a man with facial tattoos and a septum ring on the left, and an older man with wide eyes on the right. In the mid-1970s, two Earth-bound souls who would come to be ...

On March 26, 1997, following an anonymous tip, police entered the group’s sprawling Mediterranean-style compound. There, they found the bodies of the members neatly lined up in bunk beds, wearing ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Before watching Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults, there are a few things to know about the story ...

True crime and cult documentaries have become a pop culture phenomenon. Almost everything about cults intrigues audiences, from how people join to what motivates their actions. One of the most ...

Selling a house tainted by murder or suicide presents a real challenge, and the prices they go for tend to be well below those for comparable but unstigmatized properties; photos of O J Simpson's ...

In March 1997, 39 members of the cult Heaven’s Gate were found dead in their beds in a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego in California. The 18 men and 21 women were all dressed in identical ...

March 26 is the 20th anniversary of a grisly discovery in Rancho Santa Fe: the corpses of 39 members of a religious group called Heaven’s Gate. They committed suicide believing their souls would ...

Friday I went down to the Village’s Film Forum, which had sold about 60 tickets for the afternoon showing of “Heaven’s Gate,” which is showing in its full 3 hr 36 min glory and is now being ...

Sometimes a major Oscar can be a curse in disguise. And a reputation as a movie disaster can be an injustice. Michael Cimino’s “Heaven’s Gate”–an epic western about the Johnson County wars in 1892 ...