FRENZY ~ The Master's Last Great Film
Alfred Hitchcock's FRENZY epitomizes the Master's finest work but also is quite adult in its themes as well as in is explicit sexuality and good doses of profanity that lace the devious thriller-like trappings of a transient type Londoner (Jon FInch) who is mistakenly identified as a crazed serial killer who strangles women with neckties while raping them. Barry Foster coolly plays the killer as quite the dashing sophisticate who has a particularly nasty scene with Barbara Leigh-Hunt who becomes one of his unwitting victims. Possibly due to the fact that we never actually REALLY see Norman Bates murder any of his victims is why this sociopath stands out as one of Hitch's most notorious diabolical dastards. Some delicious black humor is thrown into the mix as well here with the police inspector who almost realizes too late that they have implicated the wrong man. Very well done British thriller by the Master obviously enjoying his return trip back to his native land! Excellent!
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