Like The 39 Steps, Saboteur, and North via Northwest ahead of, Frenzy repeated the vintage Hitchcock trope of a guy at the run from the police whereas chasing down the genuine legal. yet in contrast to these prior works, Frenzy additionally featured a few parts that have been new to the grasp of suspense’s motion pictures, together with specific nudity, wicked habit, and a brutal act that may problem Psycho’s bathe scene for the main anxious depiction of violence in a Hitchcock film.

In Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy: The final Masterpiece, Raymond Foery recounts the history—writing, preproduction, casting, capturing, postproduction, and promotion—of this nice paintings. whereas there are different books at the construction of anyone Hitchcock movie, none cross into as a lot aspect, and none mix a heritage of the creation procedure with an ongoing account of ways this actual movie pertains to Hitchcock’s different works. Foery additionally discusses the reactions to Frenzy by means of critics and students whereas interpreting Hitchcock’s—and the film’s—place in movie historical past 40 years later. that includes unique fabric in terms of the making of Frenzy and formerly unpublished details from the Hitchcock information, this ebook may be of curiosity to movie students and thousands of Alfred Hitchcock fans.