Wicked, Wicked (1973)

A gimmicky murder-mystery in which a masked killer goes after blonde women staying at a California hotel. The hotel's detective (!) investigates the guests’ disappearances. Wicked, Wicked is presented in Duo-Vision™, meaning that it almost entirely plays out in…

Lou (rhymes with wow!)

Duo-Vision, the technology that allows YOU the viewer to see people standing around or doing a repetitive task while something maybe is happening at the same time... or not! Saves money on editors too! Dopey psycho thrillers are hard for me to resist and the added split…

laird

This is SO MUCH FUN. For years I’ve been trying to track down what I figured would be a gimmicky flick, “DUO-VISION: An experience that will challenge your imagination”, turns out to be something truly imaginative indeed. You know the split screen effect that DePalma was…

Digital Press

35mm technicolor what do i see with these two screens? well, i spy with my little eye something that starts with S... shades of kinoautomat or any number of those early 3-d/smell-o-vision movies. it's not to say that Wicked, Wicked is as much of a "novelty-only…

noma

A great example of form elevating a work. Filmed in "Duo-Vision", Wicked, Wicked employs split screen throughout* its runtime. As this technique didn't exactly become commonplace, it would be easy to call it a failed experiment but I thought it was fascinating. It opened…

Sonny_Jim

Certainly fumbles a bit with pacing out its story (which in-of-itself is fairly forgettable), but gets two vital things right: the tone (tongue-in-cheek but serious enough to thrill when it wants to) and the form- the form, of course, being Duo-Vision, perhaps the greatest…

Evan “Raymond Gun-Virus” Pincus

100 Horror Movies in 92 Days Film #8 I love a gimmick. William Castle was of course the master, be it insurance policies in case any patrons were "frightened to death" or the "Illusion-O" viewfinder allowing viewers to see the supernatural specters in 13 Ghosts.…

Adam Hursey

“How’s it feel having your throat cut?” “Hurts.”

Liz

So I will start off by saying that “Wicked, Wicked” is really rather awful. So with the Duo-Vision gimmick, on the left side of the screen, the audio is muffled as opposed to the right side of the screen. Or at least it was on Turner Classic Movies. I guess when someone (or…

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