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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★ 3

  Basically an 80s De Palma movie. In other words, classic Hitchcock, but pervier.

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  Review by Jim Cummings 11

  One of the most graphic and accurate depictions of serial murder in film that I've ever seen.
  I cannot believe that this was a wide release film, or that *that one* scene is uncut.
  Whenever I hear somebody say that their sensibilities were offended by a film I'll ask them if they've seen a film from 1972 by Alfred Hitchcock.
  Woof.

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  Review by Nakul ★★★★

  Frenzy is Hitchcock's last great gift to British Cinema, also one of Hitchcock's best and least appreciated films. It's his most graphic and nasty movie but with all the classic elements of what makes a great Hitchcock.
  Also this movie proves why Brian De Palma is true successor of Hitchcock.

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★

  one of hitchcock's messier movies but also one of his most blunt and graphic. he was still going for the throat even at the end. "do i look like a sex murderer to you?"

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  Review by Sarah Jane 🔪 ★★★★½ 13

  I love this film. It is my favorite Hitchcock. This is probably my 3rd or 4th watch and I always find something new in it. This time I noticed that Gialli directors must have been influenced by it. I love the fact that scenes just went on forever and many things played out in 'real time'.

  Everyone is great in this. Jon Finch is a bit Oliver Reed. It is always good to see Bernard Cribbins on the scene. I can't watch his Doctor Who episodes; they make me all weepy. Speaking of weepy, when Billie Whitelaw appeared on screen I said "too soon".

  I feel this film gets the short shrift in some circles. I don't know anyone who mentions this when talking about the great Hitchcock films. I need to start a movement to get this film watched.

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  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★★★ 4

  The penultimate feature film in the extensive yet illustrious career of Alfred Hitchcock is a highly underrated gem that paints a fascinating portrait of a serial killer and, as a movie, employs all the director's trademarks & styles which over the years have only played an influential role in shaping up the filmmaking manual for Hollywood's modern thrillers.

  Set in London, the plot of Frenzy centers around a serial killer who has been terrorizing the city by raping women & strangling them with neck-ties. When the ex-husband of the serial killer's latest victim is suspected by the police for being the killer, he goes on the run to prove his innocence by finding & exposing the neck-tie murderer.

  Superbly directed by Hitchcock, Frenzy…

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  Review by anna kendrick lamar ★★★★ 2

  Allowing the hilarious to seamlessly coexist with the horrifying, Hitchcock invents the De Palma ethos mere months before Sisters drops. Tongue, meet cheek.

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  Review by sydney ★★★★★ 10

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Would y'all think I was a sicko if I told you FRENZY was one of my top 5 favorite Hitchcock films? I hate being emotionally manipulated - my heart strings do not need to be tugged upon, I do not wish to be shocked for shock's sake. Hitchcock was a genius of manipulation, though, and FRENZY is a film where I actually enjoy being pushed around while watching it.

  I love how, instead of making a mystery that is solved in the end (because that would have been too easy), he shows us the killer and crime right away and creates suspense by never letting us forget it. What's brilliant about this is that it implicates the viewer in the…

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  Review by Channing Pomeroy ★★★★ 1

  We really want Frenzy to be Hitchcock’s last film. We want the magician Hitchcock, like Prospero, to break his staff and drown his book just as we pretend The Tempest is Shakespeare’s last play. It would make their canons so much neater. Unfortunately there’s Family Plot and The Two Noble Kinsmen, both entertaining but lacking the appropriate valedictory feel.

  Hitchcock returns to the greengrocer stalls of Covent Garden where he scampered and helped his father as a kid. He returns to the serial killer genre in which he first made his name with The Lodger. And Hitchcock returns to form after a couple of uneven procedural espionage films to bring us something “rich and strange.”

  Structurally Hitch again uses his…

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  Review by Ben (a much happier Celtics fan) Hibburd ★★★½ 9

  "Frenzy" at its core, from its script to his usual filmmaking motifs is quintessentially an Alfred Hitchcock film. With the only exception coming from the fact that this film is wrapped in the visual decor more commonly associated with Brian De Palma. And at times throughout the film, it felt like I was watching a De Palma film.

  Frenzy, is Hitchcock with the shackles let loose, this is by far his most sleazy, violent and exploitative film he's made, and it stands out in his filmography as a unique piece. As the 1970's ushered in an era of director freedom it's interesting to see what it would've been like if Hitch was at his most prolific during the 70's and…

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★

  “Sometimes just thinking about the lusts of men makes me want to heave.”

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  Review by Joe ★★★★½

  Not the first time I've said this but it really is remarkable to watch this dark, disturbing, violent, and uber-70s thriller, which stands on its own next to stuff from much younger directors like Straw Dogs, The French Connection, A Clockwork Orange, etc., and remember it's directed by a man who was making movies in the silent era. But it's also quintessentially Hitchcock, with most of his pet themes and a greater-than-normal dose of humor (maybe in an attempt to offset the heaviness of the material) woven in.