Holy cow. My mind is blown. Everything from the title, to the director dying 5 days after submitting the final cut, to the location chosen to film the cult party. These links are a long read but a great explanation of the movie.
So many unbelievable things that I've come across in this group are confirmed by this movie. I saw someone mention it in a comment months ago and glad I finally came around to watching it. It was very strange in the beginning, but you have to remember you're not watching a regular movie, you're watching someone trying to show you what's going on without explicitly saying it. After reading the above articles I am just blown away.
As another poster pointed out Kubrick made this blind to the studio execs up until the studio screening. They saw it and blew the roof. Supposedly he was outside the screening theatre and smoked a lot of cigarettes seemingly nervous and uncomfortable. A few days later. He was dead. Maybe he was unwell. It's all a bit suspicious.
They were not about to loose money. so they butchered it. Then realised it. Gettin' the last laugh probably in their minds.