Story Line
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
“Just an ordinary necktie used with a deadly new twist.”
Top Cast
Jon Finch
Richard Ian "Dick" Blaney
Barry Foster
Robert "Bob" Rusk
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Brenda Margaret Blaney
Anna Massey
Barbara Jane "Babs" Milligan
Alec McCowen
DCI Tim Oxford
Vivien Merchant
Mrs Oxford
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Rating
7.1/ 10
Release Date
1972-05-25
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
CrimeThrillerHorror
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User Reviews (3)
John Chard
8/10
•8/30/2020Chillingly humorous Hitchcock piece of work.
It's always great to take a revisit to Frenzy some years after your last viewing, to re-evaluate it post haste. As a proud Englishman it gives me great pleasure to see the Master back in England capturi...
DalekDave01
No rating•3/5/2021
This is one of those thrillers that is in no way a whodunnit as it becomes evident very early on that the killer is who you think it is going to be.
But that is not sloppy film making, it is entirely deliberate, for the mystery here is not who is th...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•5/28/2023This is probably my least favourite Hitchcock story. It is still cleverly constructed, but somehow it has a vulgarity to it that I rather struggled with. The premiss is a serial killer who has been brutally killing women using a neck tie, then dumpin...