Alec McCowen, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt

A murdering rapist has been terrorizing London. The police manage to track him down and sentence him to life imprisonment. However Inspector Oxford has his doubts as to whether or not they have indeed...( read more  read more... ) the right man...

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R, 1 hr. 56 min.

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Release Date: June 21, 1972

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DVD Release Date: March 6, 2001

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  • August 13, 2008
    Hitchcock was definitely a Director ahead of his time, just imagine the kind of films he would be directing now if he could.

    In Frenzy, Hitchcock builds up the characters before the big part of the story unleashes. A few familer faces, such as Bernard Cribbings, Billie Whitel...( read more)aw etc.

    The plot, I should imaginewas quite sinister in it's day and still makes really good viewing now.
  • January 3, 2008
    The darkest side of the genius was fully flourished in this rambunctious, violent, brutal and yet bizarrely amusing thriller. the last great Hitchcock film.
  • December 4, 2007
    Hitch's most recent movie worth seeing.
  • September 2, 2007
    British Giallo...Hitchcock finally being able to show, in delightfully grizzly detail, all of the quirks and fetishes that had laid under the surface in his previous films
  • August 10, 2007
    "Frenzy" was Alfred Hitchcock's next-to-last film. And though it's not a great classic like "Psycho" and "North by Northwest", it's still a very good movie. After making mostly American movies for four decades, Hitchcock returned to his native Britain to make "Frenzy". It's about...( read more) a series of murders that's devastating London. These murders have two things in common: 1) The victims are all women; and 2) they're all raped and then strangled with a neck-tie. When a marriage counselor is murdered this way, the police suspect the woman's ex-husband is the culprit. But actually the husband is innocent, and is forced to hide out from the cops. "Frenzy" has all the usual Hitchcock elements: thrills, suspense, comedy, and Hitchcock's cameo appearence. The two best scenes in the movie are the hilarious moments when the police inspector (who's heading up the investigation of the neck-tie murders) is served two gourmet dinners by his wife. These scenes are very funny. The comic moments is what gives "Frenzy" a edge over Hitchcock's previous film "Topaz". Plus, it's a more entertaining thriller.
  • October 28, 2009
    A good Hitchcock thriller about a maniac strangling women in London. A good cast and some memorable set-pieces make this one well worth watching.
  • September 18, 2009
    Perhaps the hardest Hitchcock film to watch, but still a great one.

    79/100
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  • July 16, 2009
    Hitch's last great chiller and he lets it all hang out with bits of nudity, a truly disturbing murder and some black comic relief in the infamous potato truck scene. The cast is spot on, especially the lead detective and his wife who's experimenting with cooking (much to his dist...( read more)aste). Not for the easily squeamish, but a must-see with a great payoff of an ending.
  • July 10, 2009
    There was nothing left to the imagination with these rape scenes. Apparently you could get away with anything in the 70s when it came to making movies. Hitchcock and serial killer movies - what a great combination!

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October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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. full review

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