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Frenzy (1972) Rank 5 Reviews
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Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Alfred Hitchcock's FRENZY is a return to old forms by the master of suspense, whose newer forms have pleased movie critics but not his public. This is the kind of thriller Hitchcock was making in the 1940s, filled with macabre details, incongruous humor, ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Teen Movie Critic (Roger Davidson)
With some great suspenseful sequences, including one involving Foster, a potato truck and a corpse, and some great uses of the camera for terror, Hitch made a remarkable return to making great thrillers. Besides the two great lead performances by Finch ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at Teen Movie Critic (Roger Davidson)
Boxoffice Magazine
While there is no disputing that some of the films are better than others, Universal has gone to great lengths to insure that each films is treated fairly and equally with the others, adding more than six hours of additional documentary material ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at Boxoffice Magazine
SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
Frenzy was Alfred Hitchcockâs second-to-last film â he was 73 at the time he made it. It was the first film that Hitchcock had made in his native England in twenty years. It was a return to the psycho-thriller territory of Psycho (1960) and proof ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
New York Times (Vincent Canby)
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. ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at New York Times (Vincent Canby)
DVD Net (Amy Flower)
A dating agency customer who requires "certain peculiarities" in his partners that cannot be accommodated turns nasty, and when Blaney's ex-wife is found dead (complete with necktie) suspicions turn to the former pilot. Can he prove his innocence, or ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at DVD Net (Amy Flower)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film, Frenzy, marked his first return to England after more than 20 years of filmmaking in Hollywood. In many ways, Frenzy was a return to Hitchcock's roots, not only his national roots, but the cinematic roots that had ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
eFilmCritic.com (Paul Bryant)
There is nothing creepier than the words of a serial rapist delicately explaining how good you look to him. Let Alfred Hitchcock be the director of the actor who says those words, and shivers run through you as though he were speaking to you personally. ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Paul Bryant)
Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
One of the great latter-day Hitchcocks. ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Films on Disc (Stuart J. Kobak)
While many were poised to beat the death roll on the critical drums after the triple whammy of Marnie, Torn Curtain and Topaz, Frenzy in many ways was a return to form for Alfred Hitchcock. It's even a return to England for Hitchcock, emphasized with ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at Films on Disc (Stuart J. Kobak)
DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
After making several so-so pictures in the mid to late sixties, director Alfred Hitchcock was back in vintage form with 1972´s "Frenzy," his second-to-last movie. ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
Classic Film Guide
This terrific comeback for the great director is also on my top 10 (Alfred) Hitchcock list. ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at Classic Film Guide
DVD Talk (Chuck Arrington)
The streets of London's famous Convent Garden are the scenes of grisly rape and murder. The "Sexual Maniac" as identified by the police rapes his victims and then strangles them with his necktie. The press have since identified him as the "necktie ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at DVD Talk (Chuck Arrington)
filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)
The career of British director Alfred Hitchcock stretched from the 1920s through the 1970s. He made many great films during these decades, the last of which was Psycho. Subsequent Hitchcock films were less well received. The Birds (1963) was profitable, ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
One of Hitchcock's final movies is also one of his goriest -- his first R-rated feature -- and most dryly funny. ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
Hitchcock was back in vintage form... ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
DVD Review e-zine
"He wanted to become more explicitly violent." states screenwriter Anthony Shaffer concerning Alfred Hitchcockâs approach to the making of his 1972 thriller "Frenzy". As "Frenzy" was the first Hitchcock film to earn an "R" rating, the Master of ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at DVD Review e-zine
Ciné-club de Caen (Jean-Luc Lacuve)
Londres est terrorisée par une succession de meurtres dont l'auteur demeure inconnu ; des femmes meurent étranglées par une cravate que l'assassin laisse au cou de ses victimes. ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at Ciné-club de Caen (Jean-Luc Lacuve)
not coming to a theater near you (Teddy Blanks)
Frenzy was Hitchcockâs penultimate picture, and his first in the 1970s, a decade that saw a renaissance in American cinemaâbut it would curiously harken his return to Britain. He hadnât made a feature in his native country for over thirty years, ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at not coming to a theater near you (Teddy Blanks)
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Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
an often gruesome and violent, but nonetheless engrossing, mystery thriller mixed with moments of delicious black comedy ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
digitallyOBSESSED.com (Jon Danziger)
Alfred Hitchcock's homecoming would have to be a macabre one, and Frenzy doesn't fail on that scoreâit's not confetti and floats, but rather corpses washing up on the shores of the Thames that characterizes Hitch's first film made in the U.K. in ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at digitallyOBSESSED.com (Jon Danziger)
DVD Authority.com ("Fusion3600")
As a brutal serial killer stalks the streets of London, the police have few leads and no suspects. This means the bodies continue to surface and with no end in sight, as their hard work seems to lead into dead ends each time. This killer preys on women ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at DVD Authority.com ("Fusion3600")
DVD Verdict (Nicholas Sylvain)
Returning to London, England, after a twenty year vacation, Alfred Hitchcock created Frenzy, a film that put a new twist on his oeuvre and pushed into new ratings territory. Though languid in its pacing, and not nearly as shocking or frightening as it ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at DVD Verdict (Nicholas Sylvain)
Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)
Whatâs up with Alfred Hitchcock and women? Itâs well documented that the great director had a misogynistic streak, but this was usually subtle enough that it didnât significantly harm his movies. Not so with Frenzy. Itâs the story of a ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at Apollo Guide (Brian Webster)
Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
"Better than French fries at the local 'Fish & ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Slant Magazine
The helicopter shop that opens Frenzy, lavishly gliding over the River Thames and under London's Tower Bridge to Ron Goodwin's triumphant score, is a splendid visual gag; England lays out the symphonic fanfare to welcome Alfred Hitchcock back home, and ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at Slant Magazine
MovieJustice (Laurence Mager)
Time Out (--)
Hitchcock's return to Covent Garden, 'wrong man' plotting, the neuroses of sexual immaturity, and black-humoured slapstick ironies, tied up neatly in Anthony Shaffer's screenplay from the novel by Arthur Le Bern about the panic wrought by the 'necktie ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at Time Out (--)
www.that-movie-site.com
Alfred Hitchcock's films were thrilling to audiences and critics alike more often than not, so when he embarked on a three-film drought with Marnie (1964), Torn Curtain (1966) and Topaz (1969), Hitchcock knew his next release was critical. Luckily, for ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at www.that-movie-site.com
culturevulture.net, Choices for the Cognoscenti
By the time Frenzy was released in 1972, Alfred Hitchcock was in something of a slump. While Marnie had its admirers, most found it a slipshod exercise in psychobabble. Topaz and Torn Curtain were both drab, anemic espionage thrillers, sorely lacking ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at culturevulture.net, Choices for the Cognoscenti
The Spinning Image (Graeme Clark)
A woman's naked, strangled body washes up on the shores of the Thames - the Necktie Murderer has struck again. That same morning, argumentative Ex-R.A.F. man Dick Blaney (Jon Finch) loses his job as a barman and has to go to his ex-wife (Barbara ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at The Spinning Image (Graeme Clark)
filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)
The rise of the 'R' rated movie liberated Hitchcock. He was finally able to make a different king of Wrong Man film; one that contains nudity, cursing, and a rape, among other unpleasantness. ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)
DVDJournal.com (Mark Bourne)
Rather than classic Hitchcock, Frenzy feels more like a lesser director's cookie-cutter 'Hitchcockian' knock-off. ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at DVDJournal.com (Mark Bourne)
ToxicUniverse.com (Jeremiah Kipp)
Sadly, Alfred Hitchcock would only make one other film after Frenzy. Completists will no doubt be happy to see the Master returning to his rootsâthe wrong man, the killer with a fetish, the blonde women popping up hither and thither, the drawn-out ...read the complete Frenzy movie review at ToxicUniverse.com (Jeremiah Kipp)
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