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Frenzy

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United Kingdom · 1972
Rated R · 1h 56m
Director Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey
Genre Crime, Horror, Thriller

A London serial killer murders his victims, all women, by strangling them with a necktie. After ex-Royal Air Force officer Richard discovers his ex-wife murdered in this fashion, he quickly becomes a suspect. This gripping thriller follows the unlucky Richard, forced to go on the run and desperate to prove his innocence.

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70

Time Out by

A series of variations on themes of excess, surplus and waste from the most fastidious of directors.

88

Chicago Reader by 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.

60

Empire by 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.

100

Austin Chronicle by 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.

100

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

The script is by Anthony Shaffer (Sleuth) and the mixture of dry wit and terror is expert. Hitchcock, who was 73 when he directed, demonstrates all his old skill and romantic pessimism. [26 Nov 1999, p.A]

100

Chicago Sun-Times by 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.

100

The New York Times by 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.

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