To muddy the waters further, 17 years later a cult with the same name as this film commits mass suicide in an upscale San Diego mansion in order to reach an alien spacecraft they believed was tailing the comet Hale-Bopp. But then who knows? Maybe the mass suicide was a result of screening
Heaven's Gate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven'...eligious_group
So, yeah this movie seems to have been "star-crossed" in more ways than one.