Frenzy (Blu-ray) R
Just an ordinary necktie used with a deadly new twist.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: May 6, 2014
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Barry Foster, Jon Finch & Alec McCowen | |
Performer: | Clive Swift, Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt & Vivien Merchant | |
Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Edited by | John Jympson | |
Screenwriting by | Anthony Shaffer | |
Composition by | Ron Goodwin | |
Produced by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Director of Photography: | Gilbert Taylor |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A- --
Frenzy marked 3 kinds of return for Hitchcock: return to England after 20 years, return to form after some flops, and return to the kind of commercial film he's most clearly associated with.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rather than classic Hitchcock, Frenzy feels more like a lesser director's cookie-cutter 'Hitchcockian' knock-off.
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DVDJournal.com
Rating: 4/5 --
Middle of the road Hitch but still terrific.
Atlantic City Weekly
Rating: 2/5 --
Among Hitchcock's most dramatic (and most gruesome) lapses.
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Rating: 4/5 --
Even in his waning days Hitchcock created a unique brand of suspense.
ColeSmithey.com
Rating: 4/4 --
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.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
There is a thorough sense of entertainment boiling over the pot here, and the material is well acted, skillful, and photographed with intensity.
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Cinemaphile.org
Product Description:
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 which one person acts out the repressed violence of another), and the general public's thirst for sex and violence. Hitchcock had made films featuring Jack the Ripper-type killers before, including THE LODGER in 1926, a silent movie about a series of murders in London and a mysterious man who appears to be guilty of the crimes. In FRENZY, Hitchcock goes mod with this blackly comic story about a sex criminal--the Necktie Killer--plaguing post-Carnaby London. An innocent man who is suspected by police as the murderer must fight to nab the real perpetrator and clear his name. Though lesser known, FRENZY marked a striking return to form for the famed director. It was also his first R-rated picture. Anthony Shaffer's script is excellent, and Jon Finch brings distinctive qualities to his role as the classic Hitchcock man-accused hero.
Keywords:
Classic
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Mystery
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Killer
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Murder
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Framed
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Theatrical Release
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Serial Killers
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Murder Investigations
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Essential Cinema