]The film, with a production cost of more than $2 million (about four times more than an average live-action picture), initially failed at the box-office (partially due to the expensive installation of "Fantasound" sound reproduction equipment in theatres), but then its popularity increased and its cult status was assured when the members of the 60""s drug culture adopted it as a favorite hallucinatory experience when it was re-released (alongside other counter-cultural, head-tripping favorites, including2001: A Space Odyssey (1968),Easy Rider (1969), and the re-releasedAlice in Wonderland (1951)in 1974).In another flashback, Andrea remembered the day she found her father dead at the hands of a paid hitman (the future Joker, one of Valestra""s mob members at the time), even though Beaumont had paid back the debt.Yes, he has more the Continental mind." Lucy glibly remarks:(You) can""t have a happy married life if you""re always going to be suspicious of each other.Farrell proposed going to the Baltimore house of his friend the "Warlock" for help - Frederick Kaludis (Kevin Smith) - a "digital Jedi.That""s when I weaken.That""s when I want to go to him."Jesse sat down next to Lisa, turned a few pages, and began reading another segment of the diary that equated teenage sexuality with horror.