Frenzy (DVD)

Since 1969 Hitchcock had been in the relative wilderness, attempting to launch new projects without much success. 'Marnie', 'Torn Curtain' and 'Topaz' had all failed to ring at the box office and more significantly with the critics, 1972 saw Hitchcock return to England, and embark on a low key thriller for Universal. Adapted from Arthur La Berns novel 'Goodbye Picadilly, Farewell Leicester Square', 'Frenzy' is one of Hitchocks most engaging fims, ...
...end of his career, before the cheap and reasonably cheerful 'Family Plot', it boasts no star names, no scenic locations, no fantastic action sequences. It is however a tight and taut thriller, mean to the core with the only comedy to be found in a rather black way. A cold and cynical glimpse into the human condition, and the corruption of men. Much of 'Frenzy's success stems from the screenplay of Anthony Shaffer, with Hitch occasionally rediscovering ...

dadmancat 07.04.2003 · Read full review
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This is one of Hitchcock’s more modern efforts made in 1972. The film is set in London and is concerned with the exploits of a serial murderer. This guy, Twiss, is played by Barry Foster (he of Van der Valk fame). Twiss is the ‘Necktie Murderer’ (he always strangles his victims with a tie) but the main character in the film played by John Finch manages to get arrested and sent down for the murders. Both his ex-wife and his girlfriend ...
...to the crimes. Finch manages to get himself out of prison by first throwing himself down the stairs in the prison and getting himself admitted to hospital. When he escapes, posing as a doctor, he goes in search of Twiss, having figured out that he is in fact the real culprit. Anyway……..when he gets around to Twiss’ flat he discovers another cadavre. The police who have been watching Twiss (on a hunch) burst in to find him with ...

oclumhain 13.03.2001 · Read full review
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