SummaryA serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
Directed By:Alfred Hitchcock
Written By:Arthur La Bern, Anthony Shaffer
Frenzy
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
92
User score
Generally Favorable
7.7
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
92
93% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
7% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
Frenzy, with its piles of peaches and lettuces, its constant drinking, is a masterpiece devoted to appetite in all its varieties—but it is most seriously devoted to the perversion of sexual happiness in murder and to the absence of sexual happiness in “normal” life.
100
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
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.
90
Armed with a superior script by Anthony Shaffer, an excellent cast, and a top technical crew, Alfred Hitchcock fashions a firstrate melodrama about an innocent man hunted by Scotland Yard for a series of sex-strangulation murders.
80
Frenzy, which was Hitchcock's 54th and next-to-last film, displayed a macabre sense of humor, playful use of film techniques and edge-of-the-seat suspense. [27 Feb 2000, p.60]
75
With a very strong cast and sharp dialogue by Anthony Shaffer, Frenzy is easily the strongest of the master’s final works.
60
Hitchcock's penultimate film deals with many of his previous themes with typical grim comedy and insight into a psychopathic killer's mind.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.7
87% Positive
41 Ratings
41 Ratings
11% Mixed
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2% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
Aug 20, 2022
7
A depressing film about a guy who strangles women and frames someone else for it. I didn't really feel we got much of an explanation for why the culprit did what he ****'s not what I'd consider one of Hitchcock's better films. I think its one of his last ones, dating from the 1970s I believe. I wouldn't particularly recommend it, no.
May 1, 2020
0
Un gros épisode de Columbo idéal pour roupiller si on a raté la dernière rediffusion du célèbre inspecteur et qu'on a oublié d'enregistrer l'épisode de la veille, celui avec l'autre inspecteur, Derrick je crois qu'il s'appelle... Ici en tout cas, ce n'est ni aux Etats-Unis, ni en Allemagne mais en Angleterre que se déroule le somnifère bien chargé qui dure ses deux plombes d'ennui carabiné à double dose. Le "maître du suspense" (rires étouffés) démontre encore une fois et comme à chaque fois qu'il est et reste le maître incontestable de l'ennui, du moins dans le domaine du polar à la petite semaine et du thriller à deux balles en solde. Sous sa mise en scène endormie, aucune star mais seulement des tocards et des tocardes, les stars s'étant toutes endormies à la lecture du script du "maître", je suppose. Voilà donc un très mauvais "feuilleton" effrayant de... nullité, de clichés et de lenteur !
Production Company:
- Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions
Release Date:Jun 21, 1972
Duration:1 h 56 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Just an ordinary necktie used with a deadly new twist. [Australia Theatrical]
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 4 Nominations
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
