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Leonard Maltin's review of this film tagged it a "sure bet to become [a] cult item over the years." The surreal disconnection of its random events does give the movie a flavor similar to cult director David Lynch's work (presumably why it has been billed with his "Eraserhead"). But Polanski, both as actor and director, lacks the energy and abandon that have made Lynch's films so successful. Instead of being exhilarating, Trokovsky's illogical behaviour is simply frustrating. For those obsessed with the surreal The Tenantwill be an intruguing period piece. For the rest...
Douglas M. DeMay '94 said that his home town inupstate New York has a large satanic cult. Hisinterest in the course stemmed from a "curiosityabout the sensationalism that surrounds thesethings, and how people are influenced...
...Core curriculum, which has assumed almost cult status as the perfectly useless system of academic requirements, is the most obvious, though by no means the only, example of Harvard's neglect of undergraduate education. Only at Harvard can one find requirements that usurp a quarter of an undergraduate course load without guaranteeing that any student will actual learn anything...
...Antonio, Texas, the trial began of 10 men and one woman who are members of the Branch Davidian cult and who are charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the death of four federal agents. The agents were shot during a raid on the cult's compound near Waco in February...
...only person on the scene providing a definitive answer to this question is Amo Bishop Roden, a Branch Davidian woman who for months has conducted a lonely sit-in in an effort to reclaim the land once owned by ex-cult leader George Roden, her former husband, who is in a state mental hospital. Amo emerges from a tiny metal shack to point visitors to an altar she has fashioned from concrete slabs and sell them $15 videotapes purporting to show how the FBI started the fire with a tank-mounted flamethrower. She hints of missing corpses and CIA involvement...