Frenzy (1972)

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[luna]

considerably more blunt and explicit than anything i've seen from hitchcock so far...he normally deals with both sexuality and violence in a wry fashion but right from the outset there's all sorts of hard dealings with rape and fetishism. some fantastic moments but rather convoluted and uneven.

 

C+ (55)

[bartonfink]

Hitchcock's one of the best films in the later years. I love its suspense and black humors.

[Goffe]

Some sequences are breathtaking of how good they are. Loved the black humor. Near perfect film.

95/100

[Jake Gittes]

Hitchcock's best film post-Psycho. Too bad his age didn't allow him to work more in the '70s, because this one is raw and brutal enough to show he would fit right in with the decade's sensibilities. The long sequence with the murderer trying to take his ring from his victim is also hilarious. 

 

And based on this and Polanski's Macbeth, it's too bad Jon Finch didn't have a much bigger career. I know he largely brought it on himself, but still.