DVP's CLASSIC MOVIES WEBSITE: FRENZY (1972)

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Brief Movie Synopsis [courtesy of The Internet Movie Database]:

A serial killer is murdering London women
with a necktie. The police have a suspect,
but he's the wrong man.

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REVIEWS:

"Frenzy...is a passionately entertaining film set in a London that,
except for the color photography, seems not too different from the
setting of [Alfred Hitchcock's] earliest pictures, including The Lodger."

-- Excerpt from The New York Times; June 22, 1972

"Alfred Hitchcock's FRENZY is a return to old forms by the master
of suspense. .... This 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. The only 1970s details are
the violence and the nudity (both approached with a certain grisly abandon
that has us imagining PSYCHO without the shower curtain). It's almost as
if Hitchcock, at seventy-three, was consciously attempting to do once again
what he did better than anyone else. .... It's delicious to watch Hitchcock
using the camera. Not a shot is wasted. .... There's a lot of humor, too...
and, always, Hitchcock smacking his lips and rubbing his hands
and delighting in his naughtiness."

-- Roger Ebert; 1972