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Title: WICKED, WICKED (1973) Post by: The Burgomaster on January 29, 2011, 07:34:47 PM This is the infamous psycho movie that advertised itself as being filmed in "duo-vision." Duo vision just means the entire movie uses split screen images. The split screen technique works well during some sequences, but having the ENTIRE movie in split screen gets distracting and annoying after awhile.
The story involves a maintenance worker at a resort hotel who murders and dismembers some of the female guests. There are a few bloody stabbings and dismembered body parts, but overall it isn't very shocking. The movie uses a lot of music that was used for the silent PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Usually, one side of the split screen shows a woman playing this music on an organ while a murder or something is happening on the other half of the screen. This is one of those movies that you should probably watch at some point in your life (for no other reason than so you can tell people you've seen it). But don't expect anything you haven't seen a hundred times in other movies. Oh, by the way, Ed "Kookie" Burns is in it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5e3ttvlymI Title: Re: WICKED, WICKED (1973) Post by: Raffine on January 30, 2011, 06:51:43 PM I've always planned to watch this - someday.
That whole split screen fad in the late 60s/early 70s was pretty obnoxious, I thought. About the only really effective use I recall is Brian DePalma's SISTERS. It's used sparingly, but to good effect when we watch the murder victim attempt to write on the window (in his blood!) and the subsequent clean up on the left and the witness's reaction, arrival of the police, and finally them approaching the door on the right. It's perfectly timed so the characters we're watching in each half wind up at the door at the same moment. The door opening ends the split scrren segment. |