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Frenzy
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · starring Jon Finch, Barry Foster and Barbara Leigh-Hunt
- 4 from the press
- 8.6 · 2 votes
Frenzy: reviews
- 8.6 Users2 votes
- 8.8 Critics4 reviews
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8.6 2 votes
What the critics say average 8.8 from 4
- 10 Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
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.
Read - 10 New York TimesVincent Canby
Watching 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.
Read - 9.0 Variety
Armed with a superior script by Anthony Shaffer, an excellent cast, and a top technical crew, Alfred Hitchcock fashions a firstrate melodrama about an innocent man hunted by Scotland Yard for a series of sex-strangulation murders.
Read - 6.0 EmpireDavid Parkinson
Hitchcock's penultimate film deals with many of his previous themes with typical grim comedy and insight into a psychopathic killer's mind.
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Questions about the reviews of Frenzy
- What score does Frenzy have?
- Readers give it 8.6 (2 votes). The critics, 8.8 on average from 4 reviews.
- What do the critics say about Frenzy?
- The highest score is Chicago Sun-Times’s (10) and the lowest Empire’s (6.0).