Frenzy was Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film, and arguably one of his most misunderstood and neglected. Whereas even Psycho did eventually become respectable - indeed, it's a good contender for the most admired of the Master's films - Frenzy still remains problematic for many.
While Raymond De Foery makes his feelings clear in the title of his book, Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece, Hitchcock's controversial biographer Donald Spoto calls the film repulsive and a closed and coldly negative vision of human possibility. Frenzy is perhaps Hitchcock's most
nakedly autobiographical film, representing both a comeback and farewell to the city of his birth. But it started out as a very different kind of project. This Devil's Advocate discusses the evolution of the film, its production, reception, and place in Hitchcock's oeuvre, as well as its status as a
key film of sleazy Seventies British cinema.
Frenzy was Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film, and arguably one of his most misunderstood and neglected. Whereas even Psycho did eventually become respectable - indeed, it's a good contender for the most admired of the Master's films - Frenzy still remains problematic for many.
While Raymond De Foery makes his feelings clear in the title of his book, Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece, Hitchcock's controversial biographer Donald Spoto calls the film repulsive and a closed and coldly negative vision of human possibility. Frenzy is perhaps Hitchcock's most
nakedly autobiographical film, representing both a comeback and farewell to the city of his birth. But it started out as a very different kind of project. This Devil's Advocate discusses the evolution of the film, its production, reception, and place in Hitchcock's oeuvre, as well as its status as a
key film of sleazy Seventies British cinema.