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01/26/06
Frenzy (1972)
87 %
Reviews Counted: 30 Fresh: 26 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Synopsis: FRENZY was Alfred Hitchcock's next-to-last film--and the first film he'd made in England in 20 years. It was based on an Arthur La Bern novel and focuses on many of the same motifs that Hitchcock had obsessively examined throughout his life's work: the wrong man theme, the doubling theme (in... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriter: Anthony Shaffer
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Composer: Ron Goodwin
Screenwriter: Anthony Shaffer
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Composer: Ron Goodwin
Reviews
Top Critic
Rather than classic Hitchcock, Frenzy feels more like a lesser director's cookie-cutter 'Hitchcockian' knock-off.
06/27/06
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.
10/23/04
Top Critic
One of Hitchcock's final movies is also one of his goriest -- his first R-rated feature -- and most dryly funny.
08/01/04
Its violence and gore might seem tame in the age of Bad Boys II, but Hitchcock ratchets up the creepiness.
07/18/03
Made in his early 70s, Frenzy feels like a fresh start for the master, with shocking bits of violence in addition to his usual top-shelf suspense.
05/02/03
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