Frenzy (Blu-ray) R

Just an ordinary necktie used with a deadly new twist.
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  • Rated: R
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: May 6, 2014
  • Originally Released: 1972
  • Label: Universal Studios

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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. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Jan 22, 2012
Rather than classic Hitchcock, Frenzy feels more like a lesser director's cookie-cutter 'Hitchcockian' knock-off. Full Review
DVDJournal.com
Jun 27, 2006
Rating: 4/5 -- Middle of the road Hitch but still terrific.
Atlantic City Weekly
Apr 20, 2007
Rating: 2/5 -- Among Hitchcock's most dramatic (and most gruesome) lapses.
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Mar 18, 2004
Rating: 4/5 -- Even in his waning days Hitchcock created a unique brand of suspense.
ColeSmithey.com
Dec 6, 2005
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. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 24, 2004
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. Full Review
Cinemaphile.org
Mar 1, 2014

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.

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