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RATING: 2/5 Tags: Crime Thriller, Murder, Psychopath, Strangler, Rape, Serial Killer, False Accusation
Summary: Hitchcock’s most gruesome effort is just mediocre.
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Cast: Barry Foster, Jon Finch, Anna Massey, Alec McCowen, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Billie Whitelaw
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: Thriller
MPAA: This film is rated R for sexual violence, murder, and nudity.
Parental Guide:
Nudity: PG13 equivalent; 4 scenes of female nudity
Profanity: PG equivalent; approx. 25 profanities
Sex: R equivalent; rape sequence. PG13 equivalent; sexual dialogue
Violence: R equivalent; murder, strangulation
Other: None
Similar Films: “The Boston Strangler”, “Psycho”. Protect Your PC
from Viruses with the McAfee VirusScan! Film's last line: "You're not wearing your tie."
Panic has spread throughout the streets of London. There is a serial killer on the prowl with a necktie the weapon of choose.
We are soon introduced to Richard Blaney (Jon Finch), who becomes a suspect after his ex-wife is raped and strangled. Although Richard and his ex-wife were divorced on the basis of him being verbally and physically cruel, he is innocent.
"Frenzy" is most remembered as being one of Alfred Hitchcock's last films before his death in 1980. While not as shocking or riveting as Hitchcock's 1960 "Psycho", "Frenzy" has a great deal of imitation to the 1960 classic. For one, we have a psycho, the falsely accused character (Hitchcock seemed to have loved the innocent man theme), and the violent murder sequence (although "Frenzy" took the violence to a more graphic nature). In "Frenzy", Hitchcock spills some humor over the dark atmosphere that the film creates, whereas in "Psycho" we sat glued with horror and anticipation.
There are some memorable moments captured here: while a brutal murder is taking place off-screen inside an apartment, we are taken down a staircase, down a stairway, and out into a suddenly busy and loud London street (all happening in what appears to be a one camera shot scene, without any cuts). There are two humorous husband-wife dining sequences, where the husband is a victim of his wives bizarre gourmet cooking. And of course there is a darkly humorous sequence involving the killer, his corpse, and a potato truck.
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