Someone murders and dismembers a series of blonde women; unique in that it is shot entirely in the early 1970's cinema gimmick DUO-VISION (split screen).Someone murders and dismembers a series of blonde women; unique in that it is shot entirely in the early 1970's cinema gimmick DUO-VISION (split screen).Someone murders and dismembers a series of blonde women; unique in that it is shot entirely in the early 1970's cinema gimmick DUO-VISION (split screen).
Stefanianna Christopherson
- Genny
- (as Indira Danks)
Kirk Bates
- Owen Williams
- (as Kirk Bates and The Leaves of Grass)
Ian Abercrombie
- Eddie, Room Service Waiter
- (uncredited)
Hal K. Dawson
- Grandpa Blake
- (uncredited)
Patrick Wright
- Abusive Stepfather
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe script for the film was unusual. It was typed sideways on legal-sized paper, with each side of the page corresponding to what happens on each side of the split-screen. Writer Richard L. Bare had trouble finding a typewriter with a wide enough carriage to accommodate the longer paper.
- GoofsAs Delores Hamilton looks around the hotel lobby, her head moves slightly on the right side of the split-screen but doesn't on the left.
- Quotes
Rick Stewart: We don't need any beach freaks makin' out with the guests!
- Alternate versionsWarner Archive release makes several crude cuts for violence, causing jump cuts and a skipping soundtrack. -The first attack on a hotel guest is shorter. -The scene of a severed arm falling from a room service cart is removed; we only see a hand begin to slide out. -When the killer operates a guillotine, the Archive version cuts directly from the descending blade to the aftermath - there isn't even an impact sound! -The scene of a head falling off the jostled body of a victim has been removed. -A body impaled on a spiked fence been reduced from a zoom-closeup and a wide shot to about 10 frames of the wide shot.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 42nd Street Forever, Volume 1 (2005)
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With the split screen there are two stories being told with 2 soundtracks. Frequently, the dialogue side is turned down so that it can't be heard over sounds from the other half. It's extremely annoying and reduces any interest in watching the rest of the film.
Was it that poorly mixed for theaters, too, or was this just a bad copy on TCM?
I was also amused by the organist playing some random mood music. We see the sheet music for the piano score for the 1925 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, but the notes visible in some shots are not the ones being played. It may be legit Phantom music, but who knows for sure?
Other reviewers here have sufficiently summarized the rest of the film.
Was it that poorly mixed for theaters, too, or was this just a bad copy on TCM?
I was also amused by the organist playing some random mood music. We see the sheet music for the piano score for the 1925 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, but the notes visible in some shots are not the ones being played. It may be legit Phantom music, but who knows for sure?
Other reviewers here have sufficiently summarized the rest of the film.
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- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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- 2.65 : 1
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