Review of Frenzy (2015) by Kenneth L — 09 Nov 2013

A blunder on Hitch's part for this one. There's one incredibly awesome shot, but other than that the film is just largely mediocre. We're told who the murderer is early on, and the whole film struggles to create suspense set-pieces, but we're left lacking significant enough interest in the characters or the going-on's to really get excited. The whole thing is also punctuated but awkward attempts at comedy. Then, in case you aren't peeved enough, the very end reveals what the point of everything was: a two hour long set-up to a stupid one-liner.

Perhaps if Hitch had made this film in the late 40's in lustrous black and white, and spared us the stupid gratuitous nudity, it might have faired better. But in 1972 it just comes off as extraordinarily tame, limp and disappointing, especially coming from such a well respected source.