Frenzy (1972) - Thriller, Crime, Hitchcock

Frenzy (1972) Alfred Hitchcock's underrated thriller takes us to a London where a seemingly unstoppable serial killer is on the loose. The Necktie Killer strikes again at the very beginning of the film and it won't be long before suspect Richard Blaney finds himself hunted—not by the killer, but by the law. For more details see the Wikipedia info below. Music created on UDIO Studio Info from Wikipedia: Frenzy is a 1972 British neo-noir thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer is based on the 1966 novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern. The film stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen and Barry Foster and features Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bernard Cribbins and Vivien Merchant. The original music score was composed by Ron Goodwin. The plot centres on a serial killer in contemporary London and the ex-RAF serviceman he implicates. In a very early scene there is dialogue that mentions two actual London serial murder cases: the Christie murders in the 1940s–1950s and the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888. Some reviews were mixed. Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote that the film "has a promising opening sequence and a witty curtain line, but the material in between is decidedly pedestrian. The reviewers who've been hailing Frenzy as a new classic and the triumphant return of the master of suspense are, to put it kindly, exaggerating the occasion ... If this picture had been made by anyone else, it would be described, justly, as a mildly diverting attempt to imitate Hitchcock." On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Frenzy holds an approval rating of 91% based on 44 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Marking Alfred Hitchcock's return to England and first foray into viscerally explicit carnage, Frenzy finds the master of horror regaining his grip on the audience's pulse – and making their blood run cold." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 92 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".