]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).He crawled a few feet before Jason ripped the spike up through his spinal cord(# 3 death).Nick invited Tina next door to the party, where she met, among others:"resident writer" Eddie (Jeff Bennett) - an aspiring science-fiction novelistspoiled, stuck-up, bitchy rich kid blonde Melissa (Susan Jennifer Sullivan)dope-smoker David (Jon Renfield)unattractive, homely and self-respecting nerd Maddy (Diana Burrows)her sexy pothead friend Robin (Elizabeth Kaitan)an African-American couple: Ben (Craig Thomas) and his black girlfriend Kate (Diane Almeida)Suddenly, Tina experienced a premonition-hallucination of Jason ("the man thing in the lake") killing Michael with a metal spike.She grabbed a large bone dagger and accidentally stabbed Jake when she mistook him for the evil Ash demon attempting o enter the cabin.Krueger killed them.Now he was feeding them to Jacob." She believed that Krueger was back and targeting her unborn baby.Mark arrived with copies of newspaper clippings - evidence that Krueger had killed many others before them, and that Alice was not crazy.