- The Statue of Lenin is a 16 ft (5 m) bronze statue of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. It was created by Bulgarian-born Slovak sculptor Emil Venkov and initially put on display in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1988, the year before the Velvet Revolution. After the revolutions of 1989 and dissolution of the Soviet Union, a wave of de-Leninization in Eastern Europe brought about the fall of many monuments in the former Soviet sphere. In 1993, the statue was bought by an American who had found it lying in a scrapyard. He brought it home with him to Washington State but died before he could carry out his plans to formally display it.
- Donnie Darko (allthetropes.org)
A cult Mind Screw film, set in October 1988, about a schizophrenic teenager called Donnie Darko who sees a demonic rabbit figure named “Frank” while sleepwalking. Frank tells him that the world will end in 28 days, just before a jet engine crashes into Donnie’s bedroom. Donnie credits Frank with saving his life by causing him to sleepwalk out of the house, and begins to do Frank’s bidding, while gradually trying to uncover the strange events around him which may or may not be related either to Time Travel, an Alternate Dimension, or Donnie’s worsening Schizophrenia.