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Frenzy

Cast

Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey View All


Crew

Alfred Hitchcock (Director), Anthony Shaffer (Screenplay) View All

Release: Apr. 14th, 1972
Runtime: 1 hour, 56 minutes
After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he's the wrong man.
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17 How come Frenzy (1972) wasn't more of a success for Hitchcock?
I feel that it is possibly better than Psycho, yet Psycho is considered to be Hitchcock's signature film. But as far as serial killer movies go, I think I find Frenzy to be more effective. How come it...

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Captain Spaulding
Maybe Alfred Hitchcock was scarred as a kid from always taking the blame for his siblings' misdoings, or maybe he just had an irrational fear of being falsely accused of a crime, but the innocent-man-found-guilty is a recurring motif that he explored in several films (The 39 Steps, The Wrong Man, No....
JayDee
Along with the familiar plot of an innocent man wrongly accused which was found in many a Hitchcock film (The 39 Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Saboteur etc) there is the relationship between Blaney and Rusk that evokes feelings of Strangers on a Train's 'friendship' between Bruno and Guy.
Iroquois
A decade after unleashing Psycho on the world and inspiring a new wave of filmmakers in addition to loosening the restrictions on what could be shown on the silver screen, Alfred Hitchcock returned to the serial killer sub-genre with his penultimate film, 1972's Frenzy.
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