
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.... (Full plot summary below)
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London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
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| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyEven in his waning days Hitchcock created a unique brand of suspense. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyWatching Frenzy is like riding a roller coaster in total darkness. You can never be quite sure when you're going to start a terrifying new descent or take a sudden turn to the left or right. The agony is exquisite. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis 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. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenFrenzy is one of the great latter-day Hitchcocks; great technique, great suspense, and very black humor drive this tale of an innocent man hunted by Scotland Yard for a series of sex murders. |
| Apollo GuideBrian WebsterEven though this is a quality film, for the first time, I came away from a Hitchcock movie with a bad taste in my mouth. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonFrenzy, 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. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrThis turned out to be Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film (1972), though there's no sign of the serenity and settledness that generally mark the end of a career. Frenzy, instead, continues to question and probe, and there is a streak of sheer anger in it that seems shockingly alive. |
| Cinemaphile.orgDavid KeyesThere is a thorough sense of entertainment boiling over the pot here, and the material is well acted, skillful, and photographed with intensity. |
| DVDJournal.comMark BourneRather than classic Hitchcock, Frenzy feels more like a lesser director's cookie-cutter 'Hitchcockian' knock-off. |
| Fresno BeeDonald MunroIts violence and gore might seem tame in the age of Bad Boys II, but Hitchcock ratchets up the creepiness. |