Cast opposite Nelson is Vera Farmiga as Herff Applewhite’s eventual wife, a one-time nurse, Bonnie Lu Nettles. Farmiga is no stranger to horror movies and this film easily marks her scariest role yet.

"When I was 8 years old, thirty-nine people in my neighborhood died," is how director Michael J. Gallagher introduced his new film The Leader, a horrifying and honest look at the Heaven's Gate cult, ...

The duo is at the Taormina Film Festival with the crime thriller about the infamous American cult, where Gallagher also commented on 'Backrooms' phenomenon and YouTube boom ...

Fri, June 12, 2026 at 12:25 AM UTC Gallagher's script and direction do a phenomenal job of doing something that Jim Parsons spoke about in the post-screening q+a, and that is highlighting how ...