wurliguy I find this movie very interesting. I love the split screen. There is plenty to look at and plenty of story to pay attention to.The entire cast is excellent in their roles.The Coronado Hotel is a fabulous setting for this film.The music is reminiscent of a silent film with true theaters organ accompaniment. The music being the original theaters organ score for The Phantom of the Opera, and it works completely. The action scenes and the organ music match up perfectly. The modern music works well too.This is an very unusual and unique movie that deserves a look, but unlike most of todays films where I see a lot of people texting through the whole thing, Wicked-Wicked works best if you pay attention to both screens. This film has a lot of story to tell.Although this movie contains violent murders, it is still quite a lot of fun. Think Satire, not comedy.This had to be difficult to film,, direct, edit, and keep everything flowing as well as it does. It is Technically brilliant.This film is from the past, when variety in entertainment was the norm, people took chances, directors experimented, and CGI had yet to be thought of.

Danny Blankenship 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.

lazarillo This movie has several strikes against it from the outset. First off, is the split-screen ("duo-vision") gimmick, which is effective when used sparingly by filmmakers like Brian DePalma (or going WAY back silent French filmmaker Abel Gance), but is pretty annoying when used extensively (check out the ill-advised sequel "More American Graffitti"), and likely to give many viewers a splitting headache. Then there is the killer who is stalking a seaside hotel. The movie not only makes no attempt to hide his identity from the start, but the clues he leaves along the way are so incredibly obvious that you want to scream at the protagonist (a dimwitted, womanizing security guard)for not being able to figure out who he is. Finally there's the wretched theme song ("Wicked, wicked, that's the ticket. . .") that was apparently actually sung by actress Tiffany Bolling, who should have stuck to stripping off in bad movies like this (and speaking a stripping off, Bolling takes her usual gratuitous shower in this movie behind a particularly opaque shower curtain, just to add insult to injury).Despite all this though, I kind of enjoyed this movie. It has an enjoyably nasty sense of humor, and only in the 1970's could anyone possibly get away with making a wrongheaded experiment in cinematic ineptitude like this and still have it backed by a major studio (MGM). As for those who find this misogynistic or offensive, check out a couple other Tiffany Bolling vehicles/feminist treatises "The Candy Snatchers" and "Centerfold Girls" sometime!

F Gwynplaine MacIntyre I admire any movie that tries to change the language of film, even though such efforts nearly always fail. 3-D was a fad that was almost never used properly ('Inferno' being a rare exception). Smell-O-Vision and Odorama were never more than stunts. 'The Door in the Wall', with its fascinating use of Dynamic Frame, proved too unwieldy for exhibition on a large scale.'Wicked, Wicked' was filmed in something cried Duo-Vision ... which means that, except for the opening credits, the entire film is shown in split-screen. Now, split-screen is a valid story-telling device when it's used intelligently and sparingly. A great example is in 'The Silence of the Lambs', during the exciting sequence in which Clarice Starling and a team of FBI agents are going to two separate houses simultaneously. But 'Wicked, Wicked' has two things happening at the same go for the *entire* movie. Sadly, one of them is (mostly) irrelevant, and the other one is painfully trite.SPOILERS COMING THICK AND FAST. At the beginning of the movie, we see a woman seat herself at an organ and begin playing some Phantom of the Opera music, which she continues to play throughout the film. She's dressed in an elaborate formal outfit that would be appropriate for a concert-hall recital, yet she's all alone. Also, the actress cast in this role is so spectacularly ugly that I couldn't believe her looks were coincidental. I was positive she was going to turn out to be a supernatural witch, or something similar. No; her looks *are* irrelevant. In fact, this woman and her organ music are completely irrelevant. She sits there fingering her organ through the entire film, yet she never interacts with any of the other characters, nor do any of them seem to hear her organ music. The scriptwriter just wants to have *two* events occurring simultaneously (for the sake of the split-screen gimmick), so we get this irrelevant organ recital.The main plot concerns a resort hotel in a remote location. The very pretty Tiffany Bolling arrives as a black-haired nightclub singer who's been booked by the hotel. Her black hair doesn't match her fair complexion. Um, but some nutter is killing brunettes, so the local cop decides she ought to turn blonde as a matter of self-preservation. Bolling spends most of the flick as a blonde, and looks much prettier with long golden locks than with long raven tresses ... but she looks a natural blonde who was pretending to be brunette, not the other way round.The identity and whereabouts of the psycho are no mystery, as we watch him (on one-half of the split-screen) through most of the film. Randolph Roberts plays a disaffected youth whose mother was mean to him, so now he's just gotta go slicing pretty girls. Guess who he's picked out as his next victim.Tiffany Bolling is no actress, but she's so damned pretty that I kept watching. Still, it's painful to hear her singing this movie's awful title song 'Wicked, Wicked ... that's the ticket...' on one side of the screen while Roberts flicks his knife on the other side of the screen. I kept expecting the old Warner Brothers cartoon gag where the character on one side of a split screen reaches across the partition to the other side.Character actress Madeleine Sherwood, whom I've always liked, is stuck here in a pathetic role as a sub-Tennessee Williams dowager who has fallen on bad times, and is desperately trying to avoid eviction from the hotel after her money has run out. If you're waiting for this subplot to link up with the psycho killer or his blonde prey, keep waiting. Soon after this, Sherwood's acting career declined to the point where she ended up doing low-budget commercials for Hansel & Gretel cold cuts. I used to confuse Madeleine Sherwood with silent-film actress Madeline Hurlock, who married playwright Robert Sherwood.'Wicked, Wicked' is written and directed by Richard L Bare. Despite this film, I've a lot of respect for Bare's career. He had extensive film and television credits -- including the entire run of 'Green Acres' after the pilot episode, plus some classic 'Twilight Zone' episodes -- and he also wrote an excellent textbook on film directing. He was probably hoping that 'Wicked, Wicked' would be his prestige hit ... but it's just boring and pretentious. I'll rate this movie 2 points out of 10: one point out of kindness to Bare, and one point because Tiffany Bolling is so sexy.