#574. Frenzy
- Year: 1972
- Country: Great Britain
- Production: Universal, 116m
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
- Screenplay: Anthony Shaffer, based on book by Arthur La Bern
- Photography: Gilbert Taylor
- Music: Ron Goodwin
- Cast: Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster, Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey
- Blog Club Rating: 6.6/10
Abridged Book Description[]
Hitchcock evokes a precise mix of prurient fascination and genuine horror in the English attitude to murder that is also a great part of his own obsession... Frenzy proceeds by cutting between the antisocial, unpleasant, degraded hero - who is reduced to bedding down in a homeless shelter at one point - and the charming, engaging, successful villain... Hitchcock takes advantage of the period's more relaxed censorship regulations to be more explicit with the sex and violence, though he also knows when a long, slow pull-back away from a murder will convey more horror than another close-up of plunder and strangulation.