In today's world of CGI, 3-D, and IMAX we as movie fans often forgot the old classic ways and techniques of film. I for one didn't know that films were once done in a method called Duo Vision. Until the other night while I was watching TCM late I saw this cult classic from 1973 titled "Wicked, Wicked". The method or technique is interesting and so informative as you the viewer see scenes on both the left and right of the screen. Almost it's like a good foreshadowing method as you see a preview of what's about to come on one screen side while drama and suspense occurs at the same time on the other side of the screen.
Neat and a lot of visual displays for a film which some may like or others may not still I for one liked the way it provided clues. Aside from the duo vision the setting and story of this low budget film which featured no name actors and actresses made this film enjoyable and fun entertainment. As you watch you may feel like it has themes and elements of Hitchcock's "Psycho" written all over it. It takes place at a California beach side hotel where oddly and strangely the beautiful women who check in disappear and are later found dead. A hunk of a P.I. type is on board to investigative as this along with the film's creepy music make it interesting and suspenseful to watch.
And most telling and entertaining in the split scenes are the revealing ones of the masked stalker who with all of his victims begins at first his pleasure as a pepping tom who like any strange quiet secret creep spies on these beautiful women from a hotel balcony window while they undress. Then later in a lame and comical way unlike a gruesome horror film, the beauties are stabbed to death with a knife. Really along the way you figure it out the young hotel boy is the creepy pepping tom stalker killer.
Overall "Wicked, Wicked" wasn't a big box office classic that earned a lot of money, yet it's an entertaining cult classic for the way it was done with a unique technique of duo vision! Who would have thought we would have the CGI, 3-D, and IMAX that we have today. So really the atmosphere and story is enough to keep you interested in this cult mystery suspense thriller and it's to be respected for it's classic method of duo vision. So clearly "Wicked, Wicked" is a must see for any film historian or student of film.
Neat and a lot of visual displays for a film which some may like or others may not still I for one liked the way it provided clues. Aside from the duo vision the setting and story of this low budget film which featured no name actors and actresses made this film enjoyable and fun entertainment. As you watch you may feel like it has themes and elements of Hitchcock's "Psycho" written all over it. It takes place at a California beach side hotel where oddly and strangely the beautiful women who check in disappear and are later found dead. A hunk of a P.I. type is on board to investigative as this along with the film's creepy music make it interesting and suspenseful to watch.
And most telling and entertaining in the split scenes are the revealing ones of the masked stalker who with all of his victims begins at first his pleasure as a pepping tom who like any strange quiet secret creep spies on these beautiful women from a hotel balcony window while they undress. Then later in a lame and comical way unlike a gruesome horror film, the beauties are stabbed to death with a knife. Really along the way you figure it out the young hotel boy is the creepy pepping tom stalker killer.
Overall "Wicked, Wicked" wasn't a big box office classic that earned a lot of money, yet it's an entertaining cult classic for the way it was done with a unique technique of duo vision! Who would have thought we would have the CGI, 3-D, and IMAX that we have today. So really the atmosphere and story is enough to keep you interested in this cult mystery suspense thriller and it's to be respected for it's classic method of duo vision. So clearly "Wicked, Wicked" is a must see for any film historian or student of film.