Frenzy

Name: Frenzy
Genre: Thriller
Released: June 21, 1972
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 92
Cast: Alec McCowen, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Barry Foster, Bernard Cribbins

1972

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Universal acclaim based on 15 Critic Reviews

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: June 21, 1972 | TV-14

Starring: Alec McCowen, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Barry Foster, Bernard Cribbins, Billie Whitelaw, Clive Swift, Jon Finch, Michael Bates, Vivien Merchant

Summary: A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre(s): Thriller

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 116 min

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Vincent Canby

Watching Frenzy is like riding a roller coaster in total darkness. You can never be quite sure when you're going to start a terrifying new descent or take a sudden turn to the left or right. The agony is exquisite. Read full review

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Roger Ebert

This is the kind of thriller Hitchcock was making in the 1940s, filled with macabre details, incongruous humor, and the desperation of a man convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Read full review

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Frenzy is one of the great latter-day Hitchcocks; great technique, great suspense, and very black humor drive this tale of an innocent man hunted by Scotland Yard for a series of sex murders. Read full review

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Armed with a superior script by Anthony Shaffer, an excellent cast, and a top technical crew, Alfred Hitchcock fashions a firstrate melodrama about an innocent man hunted by Scotland Yard for a series of sex-strangulation murders. Read full review

Dave Kehr

This turned out to be Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film (1972), though there's no sign of the serenity and settledness that generally mark the end of a career. Frenzy, instead, continues to question and probe, and there is a streak of sheer anger in it that seems shockingly alive. Read full review

Crosby Day

Frenzy, which was Hitchcock's 54th and next-to-last film, displayed a macabre sense of humor, playful use of film techniques and edge-of-the-seat suspense. [27 Feb 2000, p.60]

Empire David Parkinson

Hitchcock's penultimate film deals with many of his previous themes with typical grim comedy and insight into a psychopathic killer's mind. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Aug 20, 2022

A depressing film about a guy who strangles women and frames someone else for it. I didn't really feel we got much of an explanation for why the culprit did what he did...it's not what I'd consider one of Hitchcock's better films. I think its one of his last ones, dating from the 1970s IA depressing film about a guy who strangles women and frames someone else for it. I didn't really feel we got much of an explanation for why the culprit did what he did...it's not what I'd consider one of Hitchcock's better films. I think its one of his last ones, dating from the 1970s I believe. I wouldn't particularly recommend it, no.… Expand

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Broyax

May 1, 2020

Un gros épisode de Columbo idéal pour roupiller si on a raté la dernière rediffusion du célèbre inspecteur et qu'on a oublié d'enregistrer l'épisode de la veille, celui avec l'autre inspecteur, Derrick je crois qu'il s'appelle...

Ici en tout cas, ce n'est ni aux Etats-Unis, ni en AllemagneUn gros épisode de Columbo idéal pour roupiller si on a raté la dernière rediffusion du célèbre inspecteur et qu'on a oublié d'enregistrer l'épisode de la veille, celui avec l'autre inspecteur, Derrick je crois qu'il s'appelle...

Ici en tout cas, ce n'est ni aux Etats-Unis, ni en Allemagne mais en Angleterre que se déroule le somnifère bien chargé qui dure ses deux plombes d'ennui carabiné à double dose. Le "maître du suspense" (rires étouffés) démontre encore une fois et comme à chaque fois qu'il est et reste le maître incontestable de l'ennui, du moins dans le domaine du polar à la petite semaine et du thriller à deux balles en solde.

Sous sa mise en scène endormie, aucune star mais seulement des tocards et des tocardes, les stars s'étant toutes endormies à la lecture du script du "maître", je suppose. Voilà donc un très mauvais "feuilleton" effrayant de... nullité, de clichés et de lenteur !… Expand

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