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review: frenzy (1972)
By vrtualme | October 21, 2007
Alfred Hitchcock’s only X-rated movie was Frenzy (1972), and that was only because a few brief nude scenes and because the murderer raped his victims before strangling them with his neck tie. This was his second to last film before he died; and his first British film in almost twenty years. As is typical with Hitchcock’s films an innocent man is accused and sentenced, but not to worry things work themselves out. There is quite a bit of humor here; the most famous being the look on the victims’ faces after death. The role of the killer was first offered to Michael Caine (two time Oscar winner) who declined. Eventually it went to a Caine look-alike Barry Foster (Twisted Nerve 1968). The rest of the cast includes Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barbara Leigh-Hunt and Anna Massey. Watch for Hitchcock’s trademark cameo in the opening scenes.